#dromeas

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Dromeas (The Runner), Costas Varotsos Athens, Greece A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

[bluehome91]

You wouldn’t want to accidentally bump into this enormous sculpture. Dromeas, also called The Runner is a huge sculpture by Greek artist Costas Varotsos, located in Athens, it is made of individual pieces of jagged glass stacked atop each other to take the blurred shape of a runner in motion.

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#credit: @katerinakatopis

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#greece #athens #dromeas #art

[beaningeneralacceptance]

New armour sets New armour sets New armour sets

A bit of a spoiler, tis from the trello just now seen it idhekskdn

Dromeas set, super excited about it I hope it lives up to its name and gives agility or speed

Dunno what the other two could possibly mean, I guess we'll see once the update comes

[eclecticstarlightblogger]

Ο δρομέας στον Μαραθώνιο που έτρεξε σχεδόν εννεα ώρες ξυπολητος, ντυμένος με στολή Σπαρτιάτη πολεμιστή!

Από τον Μαραθώνιο της Αθήνας. Ξυπόλητος δρομέας ντυμένος με στολή Σπαρτιάτη πολεμιστή! Ο δρομέας στον Μαραθώνιο που έτρεξε σχεδόν εννεα ώρες ξυπολητος, ντυμένος με στολή Σπαρτιάτη πολεμιστή! – olympia source https://www.olympia.gr/1608129/viral/o-dromeas-ston-marathonio-poy-etrexe-schedon-ennea-ores-xypolitos-ntymenos-me-stoli-spartiati-polemisti/

[thoughtfullyblogger]

Ο δρομέας στον Μαραθώνιο που έτρεξε σχεδόν εννεα ώρες ξυπολητος, ντυμένος με στολή Σπαρτιάτη πολεμιστή!

Από τον Μαραθώνιο της Αθήνας. Ξυπόλητος δρομέας ντυμένος με στολή Σπαρτιάτη πολεμιστή! Ο δρομέας στον Μαραθώνιο που έτρεξε σχεδόν εννεα ώρες ξυπολητος, ντυμένος με στολή Σπαρτιάτη πολεμιστή! – olympia source https://www.olympia.gr/1608129/viral/o-dromeas-ston-marathonio-poy-etrexe-schedon-ennea-ores-xypolitos-ntymenos-me-stoli-spartiati-polemisti/

[greekblogs]

Ο δρομέας στον Μαραθώνιο που έτρεξε σχεδόν εννεα ώρες ξυπολητος, ντυμένος με στολή Σπαρτιάτη πολεμιστή!

Από τον Μαραθώνιο της Αθήνας. Ξυπόλητος δρομέας ντυμένος με στολή Σπαρτιάτη πολεμιστή! Ο δρομέας στον Μαραθώνιο που έτρεξε σχεδόν εννεα ώρες ξυπολητος, ντυμένος με στολή Σπαρτιάτη πολεμιστή! – olympia source https://www.olympia.gr/1608129/viral/o-dromeas-ston-marathonio-poy-etrexe-schedon-ennea-ores-xypolitos-ntymenos-me-stoli-spartiati-polemisti/

[skandaladiaplokidiafthora]

Ο δρομέας στον Μαραθώνιο που έτρεξε σχεδόν εννεα ώρες ξυπολητος, ντυμένος με στολή Σπαρτιάτη πολεμιστή!

Από τον Μαραθώνιο της Αθήνας. Ξυπόλητος δρομέας ντυμένος με στολή Σπαρτιάτη πολεμιστή! Ο δρομέας στον Μαραθώνιο που έτρεξε σχεδόν εννεα ώρες ξυπολητος, ντυμένος με στολή Σπαρτιάτη πολεμιστή! – olympia source https://www.olympia.gr/1608129/viral/o-dromeas-ston-marathonio-poy-etrexe-schedon-ennea-ores-xypolitos-ntymenos-me-stoli-spartiati-polemisti/

[kwojciechowicz]

Greek mid century modernist architecture, and the Amalia Hotel in Olympia by famous Greek architect Nicos Valsamakis plus modern sculpture by famous Greek artist Costas Vatsos (creator of Dromeos in Athens).

More about architect Nicos Valsamakis.

The Amalia Hotel Lobby.

More about Costas Vatsos: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/dromeas

[2t2r]

Dromeas - la sculpture géante d'un coureur en éclats de verre

Nouvel article publié sur https://www.2tout2rien.fr/dromeas-la-sculpture-geante-dun-coureur-en-eclats-de-verre/

Dromeas - la sculpture géante d'un coureur en éclats de verre

[soinspired]

Images of a different Athens. Some of the most impressive photos of the past week are the landscapes left behind by bad weather Barbara just before it left. The Acropolis, Zappeion and Dromea are not often dressed in white, but in recent years, snow has visited the center of Athens quite a few times - a fact that fuels the debate about the climate crisis anew.

source: CNN Greece

[manosgold]

[nomoredromeas]

I realised that I have romanticised pain and suffering in my mind. I read so many books and watched so many movies on people going through difficult and traumatic things. I coped with my pain in the same way.

I realise I'm wound up in certain patterns and I know I shouldn't but it's difficult to stop being that way. It's very difficult to tell myself it's okay to be different.

It's difficult to heal because I never saw them portray healing in what I read or watched. That wasn't shown. That was the epilogue. The after left ambiguous. Something that just happens. But that's untrue. It doesn't just happen. You have to work through it.

[elladastinkardiamou]

Like most landmarks in any capital, the Runner has its admirers and its detractors. At more than 12 metres high, the 70-ton monument opposite Athens’ Hilton hotel is hard to miss. But whether Greeks love it or hate it, the gargantuan glass statue has become a fixture that few are willing to part with.

No one knows this better than Costas Varotsos, the internationally acclaimed artist who sculpted Dromeas – after the Greek word for runner – in the 1990s. His phone has been ringing off the hook since the Greek culture minister, Myrsini Zorba, purportedly proposed that the celebrated work should leave Greece in a cultural exchange that has exercised the nation, not least because the recipient country would have been the newly renamed North Macedonia.

“To say I was shocked would be an understatement,” the artist says, recalling his visit to Zorba’s office where the politician suggested the Runner be traded for a statue of Alexander the Great on a steed.

“I thought she had wanted to talk about cultural policy. Instead, she began saying: ‘I have this idea to move the Runner to Skopje, which is a beautiful city, you’d love it, and I wanted to know what you think.’”

The mild-mannered sculptor admits he was incensed at first. Then, he says, he found himself laughing because the idea “was just so surreal”.

“I am all for friendship with our neighbour but the Runner is a work that belongs to Athens and its people, so without hesitation I instantly said: ‘Forget it,’” he told the Guardian.

[pokemonbiologyirlthetabletop]

Zapdos (#145)

Irisignusdus fulgavis volans (OG) Zapdos

Irisignusdus fulgavis dromeas (G) Zapdos

Disclaimer: Zapdos are a very mysterious and incredibly rare Pokémon, and like all mysterious Pokémon that means the information provided in this bestiary is not necessarily known to the common masses nor well-known in the scientific community. The information is provided for completion of knowledge on a meta level, not with expectation that it is known in-universe.  

General Information: There are two sub-species of Zapdos, the (OG) variant (an electric/flying type) and the (G) variant (a fighting/flying type).

The flapping of (OG) Zapdos’s glittering wings releases electricity that can potentially induce thunderstorms. According to folklore, they are only seen when they emerge from thunderclouds and part the storm, but this is likely because they both just like thunderstorms and tend to create them by nature of existing.

(G) Zapdos evolved into a flightless variant that seeks battle with opponents stronger than itself in order to test its might. Its legs are incredibly powerful, capable of destroying large vehicles, knocking over trees, and it can run across the savannah at speeds up to 180 mph (300km/h). Its incredibly fast, with locals likening its movements to that of a lightning strike. Its wings also crackle with electricity when the feathers rub together, just like its counterpart.

Both subspecies average at 5’03 inches in height (1.6 M), but the (OG) Zapdos is typically around 116 Ibs (52.6 kg) and the (G) Zapdos is around 128.3 Ibs (58.2 kg)

Divinity: Zapdos are classified as minor demigods, which basically means their divine lineage from Mew and Ho-oh is low enough to still give them some divine traits (in this case, chronological immortality) but their mortality makes them just as susceptible to other types of death as any other creature, nor would their hypothetical death cause unfathomable catastrophe upon the balance of the world/universe (thus would not result in an eventual direct reincarnation). It also means that, as mortals, they reproduce as mortals do, but their divinity means that they can only reproduce with themselves or Mews. Many would argue that this is the best of both worlds, the benefits of divinity but without the curse of true immortality. But it does mean that they can be caught in Pokéballs just like any other mortal Pokémon.

Habitat: When it’s not busy flying around in thunderclouds, individuals have been sighted nesting in rocky craigs in steep mountains, such as the Rockies, the Himalayas, the Alps, and so forth. (G) Zapdos, on the other hand, live across the plains and rolling mountains of Africa (but not steep mountains), where they make their nests directly on the ground, or on top of humongous termite mounds.

Life Cycle: Both subspecies of Zapdos are chronologically immortal, so as a consequence their life cycles are reflectively quite long and spread out, just like Articuno’s. Individuals become reproductively mature at around 20 years old. From then onward, mates are won over through feats of strength and endurance, and pairs tend to mate for life. Courtship can take anywhere from a couple of years to decades, depending on the individual and the available environmental and social circumstances. Because of their trace divinity, Zapdos are a sexless species that can mate with any other member of its species (or Mew). The first egg starts being laid around 5 years into a pair’s mateship, where it gestates for 2 years as an egg, and hatches during peak thunderstorm season in its region. The hatchling remains with its parents for 12 years, when it eventually leaves the nest to establish itself elsewhere. Both parents take immense care of their single chick, and the familial bonds of Zapdos have been reported to firmly last even after the offspring leave the nest. In fact, the social lives of Zapdos may be spread apart from each other, and they may be two subspecies of prideful fighters in their different ways, but they respect each other even across the centuries through time immortal.

There are very few things that would even consider preying upon a baby Zapdos, but predation does occur solely to chicks that are between their egg stage and about six years old—after that point, the hatchling is typically too powerful for any predator to successfully nab it. But the greatest point of predation for a Zapdos is when its still an egg (the eggs are around 20 pounds, yum yum), when it must rely solely on its parents to defend it. Particularly daring Zangooses, snake Pokémon, and other egg-stealing Pokémon have been known to make great efforts to steal the elusive Zapdos eggs. Around 3 in 10 eggs are successfully eaten by predators, which is very low and a product of the parents being incredibly watchful and powerful. Afterwards, about 2 in 15 chicks do not survive to leaving the nest at 12 years old, and from then onward death is typically a result of getting into conflicts with other powerful Pokémon. Death from combat wounds is the primary form of death for a Zapdos. Global populations are estimated to be around 2,000 at any given time for the (OG) Zapdos (as they are global creatures), and around 300-400 for the terror bird (G) Zapdoses of Africa.

Behavior: Both subspecies are depicted as prideful in folklore, and these reports seem to be confirmed by the few Pokémon Rangers and Trainers who have had the ability to befriend or even capture one. With that said, however, the (OG) Zapdos is the better tempered of the two, and is mostly just territorial and enjoys a good display of force when prompted. While the (G) Zapdos is belligerent by nature and likes to pick fights with those it deems stronger opponents than itself, and have even been seen challenging fully-grown adult Falinks (which are ten feet tall on average) to combat—the Zapdos isn’t always the winner!

Zapdos are rather territorial creatures, but they can be reasoned with. They tend to view the biggest threats to their territories from other Zapdos, Tyrannitar, Aggron, Heatmor (only when they’re trying to eat the termites from their termite mound nest), and the sorts, otherwise smaller creatures that don’t have any impact on them, like Luxrays or even humans (maybe, depends on the individual and how much experience they have with humanity), can exist in a Zapdos’s territory without any problems. In fact, many electric types find the presence of a Zapdos incredibly helpful as they keep local Galvantula and Joltik numbers down.

Diet: Zapdos eat mostly fruits, bugs, rodents—and anything that tries to eat their eggs and gets caught. They have a particular taste for Galvantulas and Joltiks. At least one Pokémon Ranger has seen a pride of Luxrays seek aid from a Zapdos who happily ate all of the Joltiks that had infested them so terribly.

Conservation: Vulnerable, as their numbers are static and the time between generations is at least 50 years. In the United States, Mexico, and Canada, there are limited legal protections on Zapdos that ban the sale and purchase of parts. Of the “three legendary birds” (though, in this world its four legendary birds, as Ho-oh is included both scientifically and colloquially), it is the only one that experiences any regularity in legal protections, as it is the most accessible of the legendary birds to humans.

Relationship with Humans: Zapdos are the most attainable and accessible of the legendary birds to humanity, which puts them at risk of poaching. There are a handful of Zapdoses being raised in captivity by humans, though these are incredibly rare and typically only the most skilled trainers or rangers would have access to such a Pokémon. Its thought that the Zapdos doesn’t terribly mind a brief few decades traveling with a worthy human because of their own proclivity toward battles anyways.  

Many regional cultures describe the rivalry between (G) Zapdos and Falinks.

Classification: It is in the same family, Irisignusidae, and genus, Irisignusdus, as Articuno, Moltres, and Ho-oh.

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[alternimundi]

in progress

some country stuff

ROMA—> DAERMA

name comes from founder who was one of two abandoned twins suckled by a bear that lost her cubs. when she sent them to the ~urban world~, after learning the language and the flow of the city they were in, they spent time trying to solve disputes between humans by being a total outsider with no prior knowledge of human civilization. eventually they gained a following as community leaders, and seeing that many people wished to leave their city, the twins decided to make their own. while scouting out new land, the twins, in accordance with the traditions of the people, decided to give the city one of their names, using omens to determine which one of them would lend their name. after walking separate ways, DAERMICA (she whose name means fearful, fierce) counted more birds in the sky than her brother LUCELUS (he whose name means rays of light), and thus named the city DAERMA. despite naming the city for herself, Daermica wanted her brother Lucelus’ help in the city as a fellow leader. After the main houses and buildings in the city were completed, Daermica did as custom and, in the dark of night before sunrise, sowed a line around the city called the “pomerium”--this was not the city wall but the religious border, a sacred space with limited activity that preserved the heart of the city. As Daermica sowed this sacred border, though, a figure cloaked in shadow approached the pomerium line from the outer limits of the city, known only to Daermica by the faint sound of footsteps. She did not announce herself, in order to retain cover in case of attack, for Daermica, like all Daermans after her, was strong but smart, and would not put herself at risk in such an undeterminable situation. The figure seemed to approach her directly, however, and in the dark of night the bear-cub (“ursula”) drew her gladius from her side, readying herself for attack. The stranger, too, drew their sword, the metal blade ringing in the blackness. Daermica, as a skilled swordswoman, was quick to position her blade to disarm the stranger—but Ferox Fortuna moved the stranger’s feet at the wrong time, tripping into a lunge towards her, and Daermica, believing this to be an attack, thrust her sword forward. But as the stranger fell forward ever more, the movement was not a block of their blade, but a fatal wound to their soft underbelly. Daermica rushed towards the stranger who now lay on their back, coughing and wheezing, and uncovered their hood to find the face of her brother Lucelus. Daermica wept and tore at her hair as her brother’s blood stained the sacred heart of their city. Though she continued to lead, the weight of this accidental death burdened Daermica until she was reunited with Lucelus in the underworld, where they now live peacefully and without fear. Lucelus’ blood remains a stain on the legacy of Daerma—though some argue this was the fertilizer necessary to build the great empire, the first death in a history of conquest. But all true citizens honor the twin bear-cubs.

GREECE/ELLAS/HELLAS/ELLADA —> EUPHRODAS / GLAUCEA

Not as much of a backstory here, though there are two names I am going to use for it, which is significant. “Ellas” is the ancient self-descriptor of the Achaeans, used almost exclusively. This comes from Hellen, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, who fathered sons that all went on to father their own tribes across the land. This makes him a sort of all-father figure. I think I will say fuck it and make a guy named Euphron who has four daughters named Dromea, Amometa, Iuolia, and Khoirile. Their names make up the main four tribes of Euphrodas. As for the Daerman name for Euphrodas, I will go with Glaucea (this word means grey and Graecea also might mean that). What’s it a reference to? No idea! Probably fog or something. I don’t fucking know what the Romans were thinking, ever.

[myparti]

Dromeas The Runner

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