devayana:Behind this silhouette of Greece, a pan-Hellenic mixture, stands the grey column without a
devayana:Behind this silhouette of Greece, a pan-Hellenic mixture, stands the grey column without a base, the temple of hewn stone, stands the camp of men on the right bank of the Eurotas, it’s dark choirs -: the Doric world. Dorian’s love mountains, Apollo is their national god, Heracles their first king, Delphi the sacred place, they reject swaddling and bathe their children in wine.Gottfried Benn from Dorische Welt: Eine Untersuchung über die Beziehung von Kunst und Macht, 1934.[image: Apollo from a bronze original Greek sculpture attributed to Kalamis or PhidiasAbout 470 – 460 BC in Pentelic marble2nd Cent. AD. Paris, Musée du Louvre] -- source link