rhomphaia

Posted: 7:20 μμ | Dimensions: 4224 × 1536 | Gallery: «the rain in Ikariain falls mainly on the mountains» | 3 Σχόλια rhomphaia
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Ikaria After the storm 1

BAD: the electric network is old and very badly maintained, so lightnings…

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On a tempestuous night (13/1/21) Angelos shared this picure on facebook and said:

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Ikaria 115

3 Σχόλια on “rhomphaia”

  1. Ο/Η Eleni λέει:
    25 Ιουνίου, 2009 στο 6:15 μμ
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    Explaining the title:
    According to old Greek tradition, rhomphaia is the name
    of the terrible weapon of punishment carried by Saint Michael.
    The word seems to mean or to be related to «thunderbolt«.

    «Rhomphaia was also preserved in modern Greek as rhomphaia «big broad sword».
    The Thracian rhomphaia contains the stem *rump- in the Latin rumpo, -ere «to break, to tear»    .»

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    The best pictorial example I could find was by Gustave Doré in John Milton’s Paradise Lost:
    «Michael casts out rebel angels»

    Paradise Lost: Illustrations by Gustave Doré

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    «Him the Almighty Power
    Hurled headlong flaming from th’ ethereal sky,
    With hideous ruin and combustion, down
    To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
    In adamantine chains and penal fire,
    Who durst defy th’ Omnipotent to arms.
    •Book I, 44–49    «

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