Tuesday, 25 March 2014

The gnomic poetry of Theognis of Megara


The largest moon in the Solar System is Ganymede, the seventh moon of Jupiter, notable for its many pits.  Ganymede is the only moon in the Solar System known to possess a magnetosphere. It was named after the divine hero (the most beautiful of mortals) from Troy, who according to Homeric legend had a bit of a fling with Zeus after the horny god abducted him with an eagle (Mrs Zeus was a tad put out). Eventually Ganymede was granted eternal youth and became a life director of Pepsi Cola.  Felix Karlosoroff is much taken with this tale when he hears it from his astronomer brother Indrek , and he creates an exotic multichromatic triptych silk-screen print of the story.

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