Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith, because without fear of the Devil there is no more need of God.- The Name of the Rose
Sean Connery as Brother William of Baskerville
“Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation.”
— Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King Jr. (via philosophybits)
Artist’s impression of the Adur Burzen-Mihr, a Zoroastrian fire temple located in ancient Parthia. At the time of the Sasanian Empire it was one of the three “Great Fires”, which were the most important temples in Zoroastrianism.
How the Greeks Built Cities by R. E. Wycherley is a concise text examining the relationship between an ancient city’s structure and its residents. Wycherley composes a recipe for an ancient Greek town, and each chapter covers a different aspect of the town in a wonderfully comprehensive look at ancient architecture. It serves as a handy guidebook for anyone interested in how ancient Greece would have looked.
