Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Zephryos blew [#Aphrodite] over the loud-moaning sea. [The Horai] clothed her with heavenly garments: on her head they put a fine, well-wrought crown of gold and in her pierced ears they hung ornaments of orichalc & precious gold & adorned her with golden necklaces"
🏛 Aphrodite Anadyomene, Baalbek, #Lebanon, ca. 1st-2nd century CE
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine
Voices of the Nakba collects the stories of first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, documenting a watershed moment in the history of the modern Middle East through the voices of the people who lived through it.
Israel's controversial invasion of Lebanon is the subject of this harrowing book, which unsparingly describes the impact of the war on the author and on his adopted country.
"We present 14 new ancient mitogenome sequences from pre-Phoenician (~1800 BCE) and Phoenician (~700–400 BCE) samples from Lebanon (n = 4) and Sardinia (n = 10) and compare these with 87 new complete mitogenomes from modern Lebanese and 21 recently published pre-Phoenician ancient mitogenomes from Sardinia to investigate the population dynamics of the Phoenician (Punic) site of Monte Sirai, in southern Sardinia."