Se Atene piange Sparta non ride - If Athens cries but Sparta doesn't laugh
The saying in the title refers to the end of the Peloponnese war ( 431 B.C.- 404 B.C.). In paremiology this statement is meant to indicate a victory that has been reached by severe losses.
The two plates are a play on words between the English term blessed and the French term blessé, wounded.Hades was the ancient Greek underworld but, unlike the Jewish and the Christian ones, it was actually a physical place: entrances to this realm were located in impracticable, wild, hardly reachable and secret sites.
The five rivers of the realm of Hades, and their symbolic meanings, are Acheron (the river of sorrow, or woe), Cocytus (lamentation), Phlegethon (fire), Lethe (oblivion ), and Styx (hate).
In "The Republic" by Plato we read that the deads' souls, already purified from sins, are carried away by whirlfires and then rest upon the ground. Here they are able to choose their next life, then they drink from Lethe river.
The two plates are a play on words between the English term blessed and the French term blessé, wounded.Hades was the ancient Greek underworld but, unlike the Jewish and the Christian ones, it was actually a physical place: entrances to this realm were located in impracticable, wild, hardly reachable and secret sites.
The five rivers of the realm of Hades, and their symbolic meanings, are Acheron (the river of sorrow, or woe), Cocytus (lamentation), Phlegethon (fire), Lethe (oblivion ), and Styx (hate).
In "The Republic" by Plato we read that the deads' souls, already purified from sins, are carried away by whirlfires and then rest upon the ground. Here they are able to choose their next life, then they drink from Lethe river.
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