Pegasus (ancient Greek Πήγασος/Pegasos, Latin

Pegasus) is one of the best known fantastical

creatures in Greek mythology. He is a winged divine
horse, usually white in color. He was sired by
Poseidon, in his role as horse-god, and foaled by
the Gorgon Medusa.[1] He was the brother of
Chrysaor, born at a single birthing when his mother
was decapitated by Perseus. Greco-Roman poets
write about his ascent to heaven after his birth and
his obeisance to Zeus, king of the gods, who
instructed him to bring lightning and thunder from
Olympus. Friend of the Muses, Pegasus is the
creator of Hippocrene, the fountain on Mt. Helicon.

Symbol of wisdom and fame

In Greek mythology, Hippocrene (Ἱππου κρήνης)

[1] was the name of a fountain on Mt. Helicon. It
was sacred to the Muses and was formed by the
hooves of Pegasus. Its name literally translates as
"Horse's Fountain"[2] and the water was supposed
to bring forth poetic inspiration when imbibe

Caryatids
A caryatid (Greek: Καρυάτις, plural: Καρυάτιδες) is
a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural
support taking the place of a column or a pillar
supporting an entablature on her head. The Greek
term karyatides literally means "maidens of Karyai",
an ancient town of Peloponnese. Karyai had a
famous temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis in
her aspect of Artemis Karyatis
The origins of the term are unclear. It is first
recorded in the Latin form caryatides by the Roman
architect Vitruvius. He stated in his 1st century BC
work De architectura (I.1.5) that the female figures
of the Erechtheion represented the punishment of
the women of Karyæ, a town near Sparta in
Laconia, who were condemned to slavery after
betraying Athens by siding with Persia in the Greco-
Persian Wars. However, Vitruvius' explanation is
doubtful; well before the Persian Wars, female
figures were used as decorative supports in Greece
[5] and the ancient Near East.
The ancient Karyæ ("Walnut Trees") supposedly
was one of the six adjacent villages that united to
form the original township of Sparta, and the
hometown of Menelaos' queen, Helen of Troy. Girls
from Karyæ were considered especially beautiful,
tall, strong, and capable of giving birth to strong
children.
A caryatid supporting a basket on her head is called
a canephora ("basket-bearer"), representing one of
the maidens who carried sacred objects used at
feasts of the goddesses Athena and Artemis. The
Erectheion caryatids, in a shrine dedicated to an
archaic king of Athens, may therefore represent
priestesses of Artemis in Karyæ, a place named for
the "nut-tree sisterhood" – apparently in Mycenaean
times, like other plural feminine toponyms, such as
Hyrai or Athens itself.
The later male counterpart of the caryatid is referred
to as a telamon (plural telamones) or atlas (plural
atlantes) – the name refers to the legend of Atlas,
who bore the sphere of the heavens on his
shoulders. Such figures were used on a
monumental scale, notably in the Temple of
Olympian Zeus in Agrigento, Sicily.

Cordonata (Italian noun, from cordone, meaning

"lineal architectonic element which emphasizes a
limit") is a sloping road composed of transversal
stripes ("cordoni"), which are made with stone or
bricks. It has a form almost similar to a flight of
steps, but allows the transit of horses and donkeys.

Font of wisdom- Fontanieri

Ornamental hydrolics
Greco-Egyptian origin in treatises of the School of
Alexandria. 3rd BC Fontanieri such as Francini and
Buontalenti creaked the water marvels, autumata,
organ pipes and giocchi d’ acqua (water jokes) that
would douse unspecting visitors who triggered its
jets with an innocent footfall. THerei new mecahnics
was built on a body of theorems said to have been
proposed by Alexandrian physicists and
mathematicians know as Ctesibius and Hero. These
men had explored the expanding properties of
water under heat and had experimented with the
effects of air pressure and controlled vacuums.
Mentoined by Vitruvius , their treatise were known
druing the Middle Ages from Latin and Arabic
manuscripsts. By the sixteenth century these
manuscript were published in Italian.

These fontanieri were not just extraordinary

engineers they also mastered ‘complicated and
interlocking arts’ that ‘required not just mechanical
skill but profound philosophical learning.’

Romulus and Remus- twin brothers born to a vestal

virgin who claimed to have been violated by Mars.
She was thrown into prison and her children were to
be thrown into the river Tiber. They survived and
were reared by a she-wolrf and woodpecker. They
are often depicted with the she-wolf and a River
God of the Rivier Tiber relcining by an urn. Under
the rule of Romulus the city of Rome grew in size.

River Tiber
Imperial river revered as the very bloodstream of
the state

Orlando furioso is an epic poem by Ariosto. In it the

hero goes mad with unrequited loved. It is said that
it hugely influenced Vicino Orsini.

Bomarzo