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Back from Crete. I'm a couple days behind on blogging, way behind on uploading pictures, currently feeling sort of grumpy. We're going to Santorini this weekend, leaving Friday, and it looks like we might be able to catch the metro from Syntagma to Piraeus but I'm not sure I want to deal with the risk of a delay (there's construction on the track). Which means getting a taxi, which probably won't cost that much, but I mean, the metro only costs €1, and the taxi will cost more than that.

Anyway, I thought everyone should know that apparently there was a book published last year called Commemorating Epimetheus, which is hilariously glowing in its description of Epimetheus and hilariously scathing in its description of Prometheus.

"The appointed hour was approaching when humans were to be brought forth into the light of day; and Prometheus, not knowing how they might survive, entered by stealth the common workshop in which Athena and Hephaestus practiced their arts, stole the practical arts together with fire (for the practical arts could have been neither acquired nor used without fire), and forced them upon humans. In the beginning, Prometheus' machinations were met with a certain astonishment. Only later were the ill-gotten gains of the crooked schemer thoughtlessly accepted."

Or from the back of the book:

Epimetheus has largely been forgotten, and yet, he was once credited with bringing humans into the world naked, unshod, without bed, and unarmed. Rather than view this condition as one of deficiency to be covered over through some kind of technical artifice, Commemorating Epimetheus describes the human condition positively in terms of its state of origin.

lolphilosophers. ♥ I mean, it's a totally reasonable retelling. I just think it's hilarious.

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Three new blog posts: On Crete, and on omg I'm so behind. In which I wax philosophical about ruins, and get my picture taken with half of a Greek rock band. Hell yes.

Crete Day 1
Crete Day 2
Signomi!