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Re: Turks lose trust in EU - Aeneas - 11-15-2008

And a serious Greek image to go with my funny Roman ones:
[Image: MS.2%20ILIAD.jpg]
But notice the Roman numerals upper left.... can you guess the context?

Re: Turks lose trust in EU - Aphrodite - 11-15-2008

XXIX = 29 BC.
The year Virgil began to compose the Aeneid which makes me believe the image you posted is from one of the illuminated manuscripts.
I have distinguished some words among the greco latin language (?) ..AΧΑΙΟΙ is one of them :lol:

Good one ,Aeneas, the one who fled from Troy 8-)

Re: Turks lose trust in EU - Aeneas - 11-15-2008

Nice decoding! Given that there was no word spacing. It's an illustration of the Iliad.
http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/image_archive/mss/mss2.html

Re: Turks lose trust in EU - Aphrodite - 11-16-2008

::merci

Re: Turks lose trust in EU - Benn - 11-17-2008

I wonder how was it possible to read these things - no spaces between rows. I think it's even more difficult than reading Chinese

Re: Turks lose trust in EU - Aeneas - 11-17-2008

Benn Wrote:I wonder how was it possible to read these things - no spaces between rows. I think it's even more difficult than reading Chinese
They were real scholars back then... and to make things even more interesting, in the early days, after they abandoned writing only from right to left like the Phoenicians, they practiced "boustrophedon" - ox-turning; which meant switching directions every time they went from one row to another.

Re: Turks lose trust in EU - Aphrodite - 11-17-2008

Benn Wrote:I wonder how was it possible to read these things - no spaces between rows. I think it's even more difficult than reading Chinese
It's not difficult at all when you're familiar with the language.

Re: Turks lose trust in EU - Hellenicoz - 11-17-2008

clearman Wrote:Geografically, Turkey are not an European country ( more than a half is in Asia) and his religion is Islam. Why they should be admited in EU? :nonnon

A very small part of Turkey is part of Europe. The small bit between Istanbul and the Greek border. I think its only 5% which is part of Europe and 95% in Asia.