The City of Durham, UK - 10th July, 2012 (1080 HD)
Video featuring footage around the centre of the City of Durham, County Durham, UK. This video features the following identified features and locations: railway viaduct, Durham Cathedral, University of Durham, Elvet Bridge, River Wear, Charles Stewart statue, Market Square, Neptune statue, St. Nicholas Church, Leazes Road, 'Journey' sculpture, Millennium Place, Radisson Blu hotel, Framwellgate Bridge, Milburngate Bridge
Bells at Noon 2
Further along the Dluga to the Dlugi Targ and the Neptune statue, Oct 6 2009.
Fishing boat sculpture/fountain.
Outside Residence Fiorella, Gabbice Mare.
September 2015.
HANS THE WATER FOUNTAIN STATUE
Hans finds a fountain and becomes a statue.
Song credit: Inkubus Sukkubus Wytches
Prof Dame Mary Beard - Tyranny and democracy
Professor Dame Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, delivers the Gifford Lecture Tyranny and democracy. It is the fifth lecture in the series The Ancient World and us: from fear and loathing to enlightenment and ethics.
This lecture is about politics ancient and modern. What political inheritance do we imagine we can trace back to the ancient world? On what does our admiration for Athenian democracy rest, or our hatred of Roman autocrats?
University Challenge S46E21
Original air date 5.12.2016
Dionysus | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:43 1 Etymology
00:05:03 2 Origins
00:08:23 3 Epithets
00:12:00 4 Worship and festivals in Greece
00:12:28 4.1 Dionysia
00:14:03 4.2 Bacchic mysteries
00:16:05 4.3 Eleusinian mysteries
00:21:14 4.4 Orphism
00:23:23 5 Worship and festivals in Rome
00:23:34 5.1 Liber and importation to Rome
00:26:20 5.2 Bacchanalia
00:29:04 6 Post-classical worship
00:29:14 6.1 Late Antiquity
00:30:35 6.2 Worship from the Middle Ages to the Modern period
00:33:13 7 Identification with other gods
00:33:23 7.1 Osiris
00:35:42 7.2 Hades
00:39:39 7.3 Sabazios and Yahweh
00:43:02 8 Mythology
00:45:04 8.1 First birth
00:48:38 8.1.1 Interpretation
00:51:10 8.2 Second birth
00:56:57 8.2.1 Interpretation
00:59:13 8.3 Infancy
01:02:01 8.4 Travels and invention of wine
01:04:06 8.5 Return to Greece
01:06:39 8.6 Captivity and escape
01:08:36 8.7 Descent to the underworld
01:11:15 8.8 Secondary myths
01:11:24 8.8.1 Midas' golden touch
01:12:52 8.8.2 Other myths
01:14:31 9 Lovers and offspring
01:14:41 10 Iconography
01:14:50 10.1 Symbols
01:18:36 10.2 In classical art
01:22:06 11 Post-classical culture
01:22:16 11.1 Art from the Renaissance on
01:24:45 11.2 Modern literature and philosophy
01:27:29 11.3 Modern film and performance art
01:29:20 12 Parallels with Christianity
01:29:39 12.1 Death and resurrection
01:30:26 12.2 Trial
01:31:18 12.3 Sacred food and drink
01:32:05 12.4 Other parallels
01:34:06 13 Gallery
01:34:15 14 See also
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Dionysus is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking and wine, of fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre in ancient Greek religion and myth.He is also known as Bacchus ( or ; Greek: Βάκχος, Bákkhos), the name adopted by the Romans and the frenzy he induces is bakkheia. His thyrsus, sometimes wound with ivy and dripping with honey, is both a beneficent wand and a weapon used to destroy those who oppose his cult and the freedoms he represents. As Eleutherios (the liberator), his wine, music and ecstatic dance free his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful. Those who partake of his mysteries are believed to become possessed and empowered by the god himself.In his religion, identical with or closely related to Orphism, Dionysus was believed to have been born from the union of Zeus and Persephone, and to have himself represented a cthonic or underworld aspect of Zeus. Many believed that he had been born twice, having been killed and reborn as the son of Zeus and the mortal Semele. In the Eleusinian Mysteries he was identified with Iacchus, the son (or, alternately, husband) of Demeter.
His origins are uncertain, and his cults took many forms; some are described by ancient sources as Thracian, others as Greek. Though most accounts say he was born in Thrace, traveled abroad, and arrived in Greece as a foreigner, evidence from the Mycenaean period of Greek history show that he is one of Greece's oldest attested gods. His attribute of foreignness as an arriving outsider-god may be inherent and essential to his cults, as he is a god of epiphany, sometimes called the god that comes.Wine played an important role in Greek culture, and the cult of Dionysus was the main religious focus surrounding its consumption. Wine, as well as the vines and grapes that produce it, were seen as not only a gift of the god, but a symbolic incarnation of him on earth. However, rather than being a god of drunkenness, as he was often stereotyped in the post-Classical era, the religion of Dionysus centered on the correct consumption of wine, which could ease suffering and bring joy, as well as inspire divine madness distinct from drunkenness. Performance art and drama were also central to his religion, and its festiva ...
Malta | Wikipedia audio article
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Malta
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- Socrates
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Malta (, (listen); Maltese: [ˈmɐltɐ]), officially known as the Republic of Malta (Maltese: Repubblika ta' Malta), is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. It lies 80 km (50 mi) south of Italy, 284 km (176 mi) east of Tunisia, and 333 km (207 mi) north of Libya. Malta is one of the world's smallest and most densely populated countries, at over 316 km2 (122 sq mi) with a population of about 475,000. Its capital is Valletta, which is the smallest national capital in the European Union by area at 0.8 km.2 Its largest town is Birkirkara, while its chief economic centre is Sliema. The official languages are Maltese and English, with Maltese officially recognised as the national language and the only Semitic language in the European Union.
Malta has been inhabited since approximately 5900 BC. Its location in the centre of the Mediterranean has historically given it great strategic importance as a naval base, with a succession of powers having contested and ruled the islands, including the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Greeks, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Sicilians, Spanish, Knights of St. John, French, and British. Most of these foreign influences have left some sort of mark on the country's ancient culture.
Malta became a British colony in 1815, serving as a critical way station for ships and the headquarters for the British Mediterranean Fleet. It played an important role in the Allied war effort during the Second World War, and was subsequently awarded the George Cross for its bravery in the face of an Axis siege, and the George Cross appears on Malta's national flag. The British Parliament passed the Malta Independence Act in 1964, giving Malta independence from the United Kingdom as the State of Malta, with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and queen. The country became a republic in 1974. It has been a member state of the Commonwealth of Nations and the United Nations since independence, and joined the European Union in 2004; it became part of the eurozone monetary union in 2008.
Malta has a long Christian legacy and its Archdiocese is claimed to be an apostolic see because Paul the Apostle was shipwrecked on Melita, according to Acts of the Apostles, which is now widely taken to be Malta. Catholicism is the official religion in Malta. Article 40 of the Constitution states that all persons in Malta shall have full freedom of conscience and enjoy the free exercise of their respective mode of religious worship.Malta is a popular tourist destination with its warm climate, numerous recreational areas, and architectural and historical monuments, including three UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni, Valletta, and seven megalithic temples which are some of the oldest free-standing structures in the world.
Griffin
The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Greek: γρύφων, grýphōn, or γρύπων, grýpōn, early form γρύψ, grýps; Latin: gryphus) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and an eagle's talons as its front feet. Because the lion was traditionally considered the king of the beasts and the eagle the king of birds, the griffin was thought to be an especially powerful and majestic creature. The griffin was also thought of as king of all creatures. Griffins are known for guarding treasure and priceless possessions. Adrienne Mayor, a classical folklorist, proposes that the griffin was an ancient misconception derived from the fossilized remains of the Protoceratops found in gold mines in the Altai mountains of Scythia, in present day southeastern Kazakhstan, or in Mongolia. In antiquity it was a symbol of divine power and a guardian of the divine.
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