Paul says he wants everyone to see a mystery of a relationship which has been hidden in God from the beginning of the world and this is it: that He, God created all things through Jesus .
Acts 17 : 24 -26 ( Sandy’s understanding please find it and read it for yourself if you like.)
Nafplio from our park up.
It is named after the inventor Palamedes born here in the 13th century BC and said to have invented the dice.
The darkness of the sea can be seen all around it.
It defended the only navigable passage in the bay.
The channel could be closed off with a chain between this fortress and the town.
The next morning we were in a rainy but pleasant town.
From 1829 – 1834 Nafplio was the first capital of liberated Greece.
The church of Saint Spyridon.
A Greek Orthodox church.
There is an information board outside with this sad story.
Here is a summary.
Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first Governor of the modern Greek state was assassinated at the very doorstep of this church on a Sunday morning in September 1831.
It is the museum that lets us see what life was like in the area around Nafplio in ancient times.
I stood for a while and thought of their lives 330 – 200 BC.
I wondered why these were made.
These masks were worn by actors to express the personality of the characters they played.
The theatre designed by Polykleitos the Younger in the late 4th century has the following charcteristics:
near perfect acoustics,
one of the only circular orchestra stages to have survived from antiquity,
seats 13,000 to 14,000.
It is still used as a venue for ancient plays. The late Maria Callas performed Medea here in 1961. (Press on her name to just see her in rehearsal on the stage at Epidaurus then to hear her powerful voice press Marie Callas) Here are a couple of quotes from this ancient tragedy written in 431 BC.
Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive.
Euripides. Medea
I would three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth.
Euripedes. Medea
Thank you once again for sharing in this most interesting part of our world and its history.
Sandy 🙂
Most interesting part of our world indeed, Sandy. What fabulous indoor and outdoor museums and a beautiful church. I am enjoying following you around Greece!
So glad you can be with us a little and I hope I can continue to share it for your enjoyment. It is an amazing country.