Greek gods

Old picture of 2006.

fronton over one of the gates of the Gravensteen in Leiden. It shows the goddess Pallas Athene with her shield (aegis) with the head of the Gorgo Medusa on the left, and her spear on the right. It used to be the gate to the house of the rector of the grammar school in Leiden. Tuta est aegide Pallas means "Pallas is save because of her shield"

You simply cannot go around throwing half-naked women over your shoulder, certainly not with all that facial hair.

English translation of the text: "In the night of December 12/13, 1942 the students Gijs den Besten, Frits Iordens, Geert Lubberhuizen, Anne Maclaine Pont and Rutger Matthijsen set fire to the university administration, which was housed behind this wall, in order to prevent the occupier from misusing this information. The University of Utrecht honours in them all her students and staff members who during the years of 1940–1945 were involved in the resistance. The partly-melted Hermes statue shows the effect of the fire. 'In the blackest hours we kept on knowing that there are eternal principles.' Prof.dr. P.C.A. Geyl"

On the door of one of the buildings of the old Academic Hospital (now National Museum of Ethnology).

in the Statenkwartier neighbourhood

I knelt down to take this picture, a very wise thing to do when photographing a goddess.