Wind-swept and stern is she set in the sea, and, wave-beaten as she is, is fitter haunt for gulls than course for horses. The sea, rolling greatly round her, casts off on her much spindrift of the Icarian water. So wrote Callimachus, Greek Poet, Scholar and Librarian at Alexandria (c. 305 BCE - c. 240 BCE), in his
Delos - Part I: Myth and magic
Delos - Part I: Myth and magic
Delos - Part I: Myth and magic
Wind-swept and stern is she set in the sea, and, wave-beaten as she is, is fitter haunt for gulls than course for horses. The sea, rolling greatly round her, casts off on her much spindrift of the Icarian water. So wrote Callimachus, Greek Poet, Scholar and Librarian at Alexandria (c. 305 BCE - c. 240 BCE), in his