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Post by joustos on Nov 12, 2020 18:24:10 GMT
Underwater archaeology: Baiae, sunken city. Baiae and Pompeii were ancient cities near Naples, in Italy. Pompeii was destroyed and laid under ashes from the erupting volcano (Vesuvius) in 79 A.D. Baiae sank under water and is now being researched. I have seen the whole documentary on TV and was amazed by the fact that its wall paintings are exactly alike many of those in Pompeii, probably by the same local painters [Italic Greeks]. [Incidentally, the nearby Cumae/Kyme was the first colony the Hellenes founded in Italy and had an oracular cave. The Cumaean sibyl has been painted in the Sistine Chapel, by Michelangelo, along with the Delphic and other sibyls... supposedly because they foretold the coming of Christ.]
www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/neros-banquets-baiae/3411/
{A linguistic footnote: "michelangelo" = Michael the angel "angel" = the Greek word AGGELOS, pronounced An-gelos, = messanger "Michael = the Semitic word Micha-EL = the micha of El(God) -- a son or a quality of God In Greek Christianity, Michael was a warrior angel who sided with God/Zeus/Yah in the war against the Titans/Devils (who had scaled Heaven/Mount-Olympus in an attempt to take over). }
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Post by joustos on Nov 13, 2020 17:13:28 GMT
Underwater archaeology: Baiae, sunken city. Baiae and Pompeii were ancient cities near Naples, in Italy. Pompeii was destroyed and laid under ashes from the erupting volcano (Vesuvius) in 79 A.D. Baiae sank under water and is now being researched. I have seen the whole documentary on TV and was amazed by the fact that its wall paintings are exactly alike many of those in Pompeii, probably by the same local painters [Italic Greeks]. [Incidentally, the nearby Cumae/Kyme was the first colony the Hellenes founded in Italy and had an oracular cave. The Cumaean sibyl has been painted in the Sistine Chapel, by Michelangelo, along with the Delphic and other sib(Mohamed)yls... supposedly because they foretold the coming of Christ.]
www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/neros-banquets-baiae/3411/
{A linguistic footnote: "michelangelo" = Michael the angel "angel" = the Greek word AGGELOS, pronounced An-gelos, = messanger "Michael = the Semitic word Micha-EL = the micha of El(God) -- a son or a quality of God In Greek Christianity, Michael was a warrior angel who sided with God/Zeus/Yah in the war against the Titans/Devils (who had scaled Heaven/Mount-Olympus in an attempt to take over). }
An historic footnote: During the Renaissance, an Italian painter, Reni, painted Michael the Angel (actually called Archangel) as a winged man who was holding a sword and had a man )Mohamed) under his foot -- to signify that in the battle between Islam andChristianity, the Christians won. Infact, the Ottoman/Turkish muslims. after conquering Costantinople (now Istambul) moved on to conquer Europe and arrived as far as Vienna (Austria). However, a coaition of Austrian, Venetian, and Spanish forces went to attack and defeat the Islamic fleet at Lepanto, wherefore, the Ottomans were stopped for good. (This strategy had been used by the Romans led by Scipio, who, in order to stop Hannibal's invasion of Italy and his destructions [including the city of my forefathers in southern Italy, Thourioi] proceeded to destroy Hannibal's hometown, Carthage. In the Roman Senate, Cato had exclaimed, "Carthago delenda est": Carthage has to be destroyed.) My town had been founded by refugees from Thurioi. {In Venice's Doge's mansion, Tintoretto painted the Battle of Lepanto, in which the Venetian leader was killed, and the Spanish Cervantes, the famous writer, was wounded.} Incidentally, during the Middle Ages, Thomas Aquinas [from Aquino, in central Italy] wrote an extensive treatise, "Summa Contra Gentiles": a Summary Against the Non-Christians, but specifically against the Islamic theologians, for, in those days, the Moors/Islamics who had conquered southern Spain had diffused their writings throughout Europe -- theological, mathematical, etc. (Even to these days we use Arabic, rather than the traditional Roman, numerals. However, to be precise, it was an Italian mathematician that went to the Moors to learn their method of writing numbers, wrote down[in Latin] the system, which was then adopted by the Europeans. The Muslims had learned a lot (and even translated Greek philosophical works) from the great library at Alexandria of Egypt before it was burned down. // The Islamic theolggians in question used Aristotle's philosophy -- learned at the Library -- to defend their religion; so, then, Aquinas used Aristotle to defend the Christian religion.
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Post by joustos on Nov 14, 2020 21:25:06 GMT
Underwater archaeology: Baiae, sunken city. Baiae and Pompeii were ancient cities near Naples, in Italy. Pompeii was destroyed and laid under ashes from the erupting volcano (Vesuvius) in 79 A.D. Baiae sank under water and is now being researched. I have seen the whole documentary on TV and was amazed by the fact that its wall paintings are exactly alike many of those in Pompeii, probably by the same local painters [Italic Greeks]. [Incidentally, the nearby Cumae/Kyme was the first colony the Hellenes founded in Italy and had an oracular cave. The Cumaean sibyl has been painted in the Sistine Chapel, by Michelangelo, along with the Delphic and other sib(Mohamed)yls... supposedly because they foretold the coming of Christ.]
www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/neros-banquets-baiae/3411/
{A linguistic footnote: "michelangelo" = Michael the angel "angel" = the Greek word AGGELOS, pronounced An-gelos, = messanger "Michael = the Semitic word Micha-EL = the micha of El(God) -- a son or a quality of God In Greek Christianity, Michael was a warrior angel who sided with God/Zeus/Yah in the war against the Titans/Devils (who had scaled Heaven/Mount-Olympus in an attempt to take over). }
An historic footnote: During the Renaissance, an Italian painter, Reni, painted Michael the Angel (actually called Archangel) as a winged man who was holding a sword and had a man )Mohamed) under his foot -- to signify that in the battle between Islam andChristianity, the Christians won. Infact, the Ottoman/Turkish muslims. after conquering Costantinople (now Istambul) moved on to conquer Europe and arrived as far as Vienna (Austria). However, a coaition of Austrian, Venetian, and Spanish forces went to attack and defeat the Islamic fleet at Lepanto, wherefore, the Ottomans were stopped for good. (This strategy had been used by the Romans led by Scipio, who, in order to stop Hannibal's invasion of Italy and his destructions [including the city of my forefathers in southern Italy, Thourioi] proceeded to destroy Hannibal's hometown, Carthage. In the Roman Senate, Cato had exclaimed, "Carthago delenda est": Carthage has to be destroyed.) My town had been founded by refugees from Thurioi. {In Venice's Doge's mansion, Tintoretto painted the Battle of Lepanto, in which the Venetian leader was killed, and the Spanish Cervantes, the famous writer, was wounded.} Incidentally, during the Middle Ages, Thomas Aquinas [from Aquino, in central Italy] wrote an extensive treatise, "Summa Contra Gentiles": a Summary Against the Non-Christians, but specifically against the Islamic theologians, for, in those days, the Moors/Islamics who had conquered southern Spain had diffused their writings throughout Europe -- theological, mathematical, etc. (Even to these days we use Arabic, rather than the traditional Roman, numerals. However, to be precise, it was an Italian mathematician that went to the Moors to learn their method of writing numbers, wrote down[in Latin] the system, which was then adopted by the Europeans. The Muslims had learned a lot (and even translated Greek philosophical works) from the great library at Alexandria of Egypt before it was burned down. // The Islamic theolggians in question used Aristotle's philosophy -- learned at the Library -- to defend their religion; so, then, Aquinas used Aristotle to defend the Christian religion.
A footnote to an historic footnote: As luck would have it, an alterpiece of a church in my native town has a copy of Reni's painting,but its meaning was never explained to me. Still I wander why they chose Reni's work. It would have been fitting in a nearby town which, in the old days was invaded and captured by Saracen (Islamic) pirates but was liberated by a local leader. The Christians triumphed again! Meanwhile, after the Lepanto victory, Christpher Columbus, a seafarer from the Republic of Genoa, thought of attacking the Saracenic homebasis and, with the Pope, planned on conducting a new crusade. As funds were needed, he decided to get them from China, known for its fabulous wealth. So, the Pope and the Spanish queen Isabella funded Columbus to undertake the voyage to China. He did not succeed because he encountered a new vast territory (later called America). Consequently, the Saracens are still after conquering the world. However, as Amerindians had gold, the Spanish military immediately proceeded to take control of the discovered lands (Central America) and Columbus was imprisoned on false charges.
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