Greece & Greek Culture Educational Posters & Prints, pg 2/2
for the classroom, home schoolers, decor for office.

Daedalus & Icarus

The name Daedalus means “Cunning Worker”, whose most cunning work may have been the wings he created from feathers and wax so he and his young son Icarus could escape from King Minos who had imprisoned them to prevent the secret of the labyrinth leaving Crete.

Daedalus is described first by Homer, and then by Ovid, with creating labyrinths to keep the Minotaur, a ferocious half man - half bull creature that was the offspring of a god in the form of a bull and female human.

Orestes, the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, avenged his father's murder by his mother, by killing his mother.

A krater is a very large vase that was used to mix wine and water for a ‘symposium’, which originally meant a drinking party.

Attic refers to a historical region of Greece centered on the Attic peninsula, which projects into the Aegean Sea.

The Three Graces

In Greek mythology the goddesses of “Beauty”, “Mirth”, and “Good Cheer” (Aglaea, Euphrosyne, and Thalia) are collectively called the Three Graces.

The historic city of Troy, both factual and legendary, is located in northwest Anatolia in what is now Turkey between the Dardanelles and Mount Ida.

Troy is best remembered for being the focus of the Trojan War described in the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer.

• The Iliad and Odyssey [BOX SET]
• Odysses poster
• horses posters

Odysseus and the Sirens, Athenian Red Figure Stamnos Vase by The Siren Painter

• explorers posters

Aesop-
(ca. 620 - 560 BC)

Aesop's Fables are short stories using personified animals to tell a cautionary tale, a moral lesson, a rule of behavior. Over 200 fables have been attributed to Aesop, who was possibly a Greek slave of African descent c. 600 BC. The word Aesop means Ethiop in Ancient Greek.

• Aesop quote poster
• famous teachers posters
• literature posters

Buildings on Top of and Below Volcanic Cliffs (Thira), Santorini Island, Greece Fine Art Print

• volcano posters

Windmills on the Island of Mykonons, Greece

Zorba the Greek (1946) is a novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis. The character ‘Alexis Zorba’ represents the Dionysus spirit of ecstatic, spontaneous will to live opposed to the young Greek intellectual narrator's order and rationality represented by the Greek god Apollo (see Nietzsche).

Kazantzakis (b. 2-18-1883, Crete; d. 10-26-1957, Germany), considered by some the most important Greek philosopher of the 20th century, his epitaph reads "I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free."

Maria Callas
b. 12-27-1923; NYC
d. 9-16-1977; Paris

• opera singer posters

Hellenic Air

• aviation posters