Chios

Byzantine Mosaics The mosaic of Christ being baptized by John the Baptist in the Nea Moni monastery from the Greek island of Chios is a prime example of the goal of Byzantine mosaic art. Although the true artist’s name is unknown, it can be said that this mosaic is from the 11th century, from the period known as Middle Byzantine art. This mosaic features Jesus in the middle of the mosaic, with John on his left baptizing him. Two angels are present to the right of Jesus, watching over the proceedings

what it takes to go from Cleveland, Ohio to Chios, Greece. The 747 commercial plane to the mainland is heaven compared to the sinister, much smaller, propeller plane to Chios. The tiny coffin holds maybe 30 people tops and feels a lot like being inside a tin rattle.Landing after two hours of unsettling turbulence awakens thankful thoughts in a person.Compared to the dark dungeon of the plane, everything outside is bright and full of life. The island Chios is one of the closest of the Greek islands

to the Greeks in terms of religion, since both held Christian values, while the Turks were largely Muslim, and at the time seen as the outsiders within the conflict (Fraser, 2004). The painting depicts some of the Greek survivors on the island of Chios, as they are in anguish since they’re surrounded by the Ottomans whom are holding weapons, and whom are presumably capturing these individuals for slavery. Some of the figures are wounded, some appear to be dying, but the survivors will presumably

where his spirit seems to be floating above him. Delacroix’s The Massacre at Chios transmits feelings of loss, despair, and tragedy to its viewers. The Massacre at Chios requires no history lesson to understand that some great suffering had happened. Dix’s War cripples emanates some of the same feelings, viewers can see the artist’s political views and feelings toward the war. I feel that The Massacre of Chios translates its message more effectively to viewers across time. A viewer from our

Also, he would have had to be close to Ithaca to describe it as well as he did. Evidence of Homers followers living in the Ionic Island of Chios is documented. (Britannica) They were a group of oral poets called the Homeridae. They attempted to carry on The Homeric tradition of oral poetry. They claimed to be Homers descendants and it would seem reasonable that both the Homeridae and Homer

Hippocrates of Chios Hippocrates of Chios was a brilliant ancient Greek mathematician, astronomer, and geometer. Isle of Chios was where he was born. He was a person who was involved in wholesales trade. After some circumstances that did not help him succeed in some adventures he experienced like being robbed by pirates or fraudulent customs official.Those causes lead him to leave to Athens in the 430 BC. to process some legal actions. That was when Hippocrates started to grow as a mathematician

time of the French Revolution. The painting is based around an incident that took place around the early history of Rome, and in the painting a group of women are shown trying to separate Sabine and roman soldiers. The other painting, “Massacre at Chios,” depicts the massacring of Greek civilians at the hands of ottoman troops during the Greek war of independence in 1822. The third painting, “Guernica,” represents the chaos that resulted from the bombing of a town in Spain that shares the same name

Homer, traditionally represented as a blind singer, a poet, who roamed the Mediterranean world by declaiming his poems, is the most ancient Greek writer whose work has come down to us. He is considered the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, founding poems of ancient Greek literature. Its existence was surrounded by legends from the 6th century BC We know very little about the life of Greek poet Homer, attributed with being the first to write the classic stories of The Iliad and The Odyssey, the

effects than the first one, with many Greek cities and Romans involved in this war . Ultimately, he besieged the city of Chios but suffered a huge defeat by three of the most powerful naval powers: Pergamum, Rhodes and Byzantion. Subsequently Philip attacked Pergamum but failed to capture this city12. Originally, Philip didn’t plan to siege Pergamum but Attalus’ intervention at Chios provoked him to do

Byzantine Mosaics The mosaic of Christ being baptized by John the Baptist in the Nea Moni monastery of the Greek island of Chios is a prime example of the goal of Byzantine mosaic art. Although the true artist’s name is unknown, it can be said that this mosaic is from the 11th century, from the period known as Middle Byzantine art. This mosaic features Jesus in the middle of the mosaic, with John on his left baptizing him. Two angels are present to the right of Jesus, watching over the proceedings