Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan

Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan

The Fall of the House of Tantalus

Kenaz Filan
Dec 05, 2021
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The Weeping Rock of Niobe, Spil Dağı (Mt. Sipylus), Manisa Province, Turkey. Photo Carole Raddato, Courtesy Wikimedia Commons

As the Greeks told it, the Agamemnon Cycle began in a small Lydian kingdom called Sipylus.

Today Mt. Sipylus overlooks the road between Manisa and Izmir in Turkey's Manisa province. An enormous crumbling relief sculpture watches ov…

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