Saturday, July 20, 2019

TITANS, GIANTS AND GREEK HEROS

It's all Greek to me! The Greek alphabet, constellations, architecture, Percy Jackson, Disney Princess. Everywhere I look now I see Ancient Greece. Turns out it's been there all along but I just couldn't see it.
Built from 1675-77 by Gaspard Marsy, this fountain has haunted me since I saw it May 27, 2009. The man seems in agony, buried in rock, with water spouting out of his mouth like a scream. I wondered if it was myth, and whether or not he was throwing them at something in the sky, only to be burying himself further, with a moral warning in its story. Now on a Friday night July 19, 2019, I found the story on the glorious website Chateau de Versailles under Enceladus Grove. It is the giant Enceladus, and he is a Titan, buried under the rocks of Olympus by the gods they had intended to dethrone. The grove was elaborated in 1706 by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, and restored between 1992 and 1998.

Enceldadus Fountain, Versailles

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