From Dub to Dubstep

(photo source HERE)

(photo source HERE)

Though by now it is over, these are two posters from a music event that took place in Athens two days ago

Barbie Athena

(close-up photo VIA)

Interested? See here

P.S. Barbie Athena seems to have been the most influential of the "Greek" Barbies.

On Youtube there's a video of a girl in the process of unpacking her (here) and another of a girl immitating her make-up (here)

Barbie Aphrodite

Barbie Aphrodite

in the Exclusive Gold 2009 Series

(more here)

An older version of the goddess was available in 2000 in the Classical Goddess Collection

Note how the Goddess follows contemporary fashion



(information and photograph VIA)

Greek Princess Barbie

Princess of Ancient Greece Barbie

in the collectible series Dolls of the World

Princess of Ancient Greece™ Barbie® Doll wears a rippled, copper-colored dress
called a "chiton" that flares at the bottom. A square sheer wrap decorated with
a golden Grecian pattern is pinned at her right shoulder with one of two golden
pins that are shaped in a lion's head. She wears a golden serpent arm cuff and
completes her outfit with a golden laurel crown atop her curly dark brown hair,
worn up in a classic Grecian chignon.

(interested? see here)

Against disrespectful men

An Aphrodite of Melos statuette used as a weapon against disrespectful men

Greek matchbox

A Greek matchbox reproducing a Wild Goat Style scene (650-550 B.C.)

Aphrodite of Banksy

From the Banksy versus Bristol Museum exhibition



More hotel labels of yore

Athens - Delphi - Olympia - Grande Bretagne (?!)

Delphi Hotel Labels

From Athens to Vulci to Athens

Hotel Xenias Melathron label in Athens

[reproducing a red-figure vase scene in the negative]

Attic Red-figure stamnos showing the departure of a warrior.

Painted by the Kleophon painter, 440-430 B.C.

From Vulci, now in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich

Mittelmeerreisen 1934