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A companion postcard to Corinth from last month.Let’s run down all the NERD I managed to stuff into this one, shall we?
Our lovely lady is sitting on an allotment machine used to assign offices in Athenian democracy—only a few offices were elected, everything else was chosen by lots. She’s just written an A on her wax tablet, Greeks used them like notepads. She’s flanked by two Doric columns, the type used on the Parthenon, which is behind her up on the Acropolis there. Atop the columns are two amphorae in the black-and red-figure styles. Olives were of much importance to the city, since it was one of the hardiest plants that grew in the area. The olive branches hold a scroll with the epithet by Pericles “the School Of Hellas,” Hellas being the ancient Greek word for Greece. I fudged the landscape slightly so that you could see the ocean behind her, Athens’ port and navy were of MUCH importance to the city.
I'm even more pleased with this than with Corinth's, eee
done all in cut paper
art copyright ~Kaede-chama
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Clothes are absolutely amazing, all your work is really beautiful and detailed, color elections , expressions, light and shadows make with cut paper. I´m astonished , so you have a fan
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