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This Month Too
The Summer Arts Festival Continues!
Though we may be gently heading towards autumn, there are still several events going on at the Fortezza. You’ll find a few of these highlights below. Please note that the timetable that we have given you is the one that we had at the time of going to press, we don’t have prices for all the events, and as ever, the schedule might change at the last minute. Furthermore, we’re not always infallible when it comes to transcribing information that we receive…. So, if you are planning to go to any of these events, please check ahead of time! We will try to provide you with regular updates as and when we get them on our Rethymnon Coffee Morning Bugle
Facebook group and also on our
www.rethymnon.biz website. Ticket Sales and Information: Municipal Info Kiosk on Four Martyrs’ Square - Monday to Saturday 09:00 - 14:00 (hopefully tickets will be available a couple of days in advance); Erofili Theatre, Fortezza - Tel. 28310 28101 (tickets on sale one hour prior to each performance).
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01/09 Theatre: "The Persians", by Aeschylus. Starts 21.30. Entrance €10 - €5 (Students).
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09/09 Satire with ΧΑΡΥ ΚΛΥΝΝ: "Ti Toυs Koitate Ρe" (What to See). Starts at 21.30. Entrance €15.
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Art at the Fortezza20/08-16/09 "Meeting Through Art" - group exhibition with works by Ukrainian artists in the Artillery Building. Open daily from 10am-2pm / 5.30pm-8.30pm. |
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God of the Month: Atlas
Once again the Bugle team say thank you to everyone at Restaurant Paradiso in Agia Galini for a great lunch (absolutely delicious!) and all those positive vibes that we needed to come up with our God of the Month. So for September we have chosen Atlas. The God of Geography some might say, but some people might be wrong. He didn’t just hold up the world. And according to some people he didn’t even hold up the world at all in the first place, preferring to shoulder cosmic spheres or maybe even just a very large ball instead. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves here. It is said that Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and Clymene (daughter of Ocean) In his early years Atlas got it wrong when choosing by siding with the Titans in their war against the Olympians. When the Titans lost, Zeus told Atlas to go and stand in a corner of the earth and hold up the sky.
Being a ‘man of the world’ Atlas had several children by a number of different goddesses. Most of his children were daughters, including the lovely dancing Calypso. What we weren’t able to find out is how Atlas managed to do all this fathering at the same time as holding up the heavens (the mind boggles!) but it is Greek mythology after all, so anything is possible. In some stories Atlas is also said to govern the moon. One of the better known legends about Atlas comes from the Twelve Labours of Hercules. The eleventh challenge for Hercules involved stealing the golden apples from the Hesperides (daughters of Atlas). Hercules offered to hold up the sky for Atlas whilst Atlas went and got the apples. Atlas went and got the apples, then tried to trick Hercules into holding up the sky permanently, but crafty Hercules was wise to the ruse. You win some, you lose some!
