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Lysipp

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Kairos. Roman work after the original by Lysippos ca. 350-330 BC.  Turin, Museum of Antiquities  ( © www.iflebenskunde.de) I. Introduction  Lysipp was one of the most renown sculptors of the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic periods (4th-3rd centuries BC), establishing a new canon for the proportions of the human body. Distinguished on the same level as Praxiteles and Pheidias, he was from Sikyon and worked mainly on bronze. Lysipp has been the official sculptor of the Macedonian court under Alexander the Great. Although no original work of him has survived, it is considered that his oeuvre prepared the prominent " baroque style " of the hellenistic period.  Terme Boxer,  Palazzo Massimo alle Terme ,  Rome , Italy  ( © wikipedia.org) II. Sources for his work According to Pliny the Elder, Lysipp's flourishing period is placed during the 113th Olympiad, while other sources indicate that he had a long career ...
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On This Day: Battle of Basing (22 January 871 AD)

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The Battle of Basing was a victory of a Danish Viking army over the West Saxons at the royal estate of Basing in Hampshire on about 22 January 871. Old Basing, Hampshire The Street, looking north to the railway bridge St Mary’s church, Old Basing, Hampshire Was the Battle of Basing between the Saxons and the Vikings fought near here? In late December 870 the Vikings invaded Wessex and occupied Reading. Several battles followed in quick succession, Englefield, a West Saxon victory, Reading, a Viking victory and Ashdown on about 8 January, a West Saxon victory. Two weeks later, King Æthelred and his brother, the future King Alfred the Great, were defeated at Basing. There was then a lull of two months until the Battle of Meretun, when the Vikings again prevailed. Soon after Easter, which fell on 15 April in that year, Æthelred died and was succeeded by Alfred.[2] The Battle of Basing can be dated because Bishop Heahmund of Sherborne died in the Battle of Me...
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BYZANTINE MUSIC- NOTATION SYSTEM. QUANTITY CHARACTERS

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In Byzantine music, there is a specific notation system. The signs are called characters, because each of them actually has its own "character". One is soft, the other is sharp, the other is flat etc. In short, it requires each of us to adjust our voice to the different characters, so i. e. a sharp note sounds differently than a flat. Before looking at the notes in detail, we must say that all of these signs, the so-called characters, are divided into 3 large groups, namely the  quantity ,  quality  and  time / metric characters . Each group has its own basic features, which is the common point of all the individual characters it contains, regardless of the differences between them. I. QUANTITY CHARACTERS  Imagine at first that you are on a scale, with many many steps. Each of these steps represents a note and has a different name; the names are (ascending) Ni Pa Vu Ga Di Ke Zo and are repeated over and over again.
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