Delphi Tapestries

Description: “Know Thyself” hand lettering design. The Ancient Greek aphorism "know thyself” is one of the Delphic maxims and was the first of three maxims inscribed in the pronaos (forecourt) of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi according to the Greek writer Pausanias. In Latin the phrase, "know thyself," is given as “nosce te ipsum” or “temet nosce”.

Description: This design features some of the most powerful and well known city-states of ancient Greece and the Aegean. Sparta, Athens, Argos, Corinth, Thebes, Rhodes, Knossos and Delphi. Part of the Ancient History and Ancient Greece Collection

Description: Plutarch was a Greek and later Roman Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Moralia, a collection of essays and speeches.

Description: If you do not find within yourself that which you seek, neither will you find it outside. If you ignore the wonders of your own house, how do you expect to find other wonders? In you is hidden the Treasures of Treasures.

Description: This is the perfect gift for the philosopher in your life!