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The Tailteann Games revival

Chalcedony cover with Venus and Cupid sleeping in a shell, with silver gilt swan as Jupiter by Giovanni Ambrogio Miseroni 16th C. CE

Portrait of a young Pythagoras by Bruce Pennington 2010

Portrait of Pythagoras by Bruce Pennington 2010

The Pentagram of Pythagoras

Funerary altar of Iulia Victorina 1st C. CE

Mercury and Maia inside a silver cup dedicated by the freedman P. Aelius Eutychus, from a Gallo-Roman religious site, late 2nd C. CE

The selection of the infant Spartans by Giuseppe Diotti 1840

Cuchulain talks with Emer by Stephen Reid 1910

Achaemenid king killing a Greek hoplite, a possible depiction of Xerxes I killing Leonidas, sculpted c. 500– 475 BCE

Druids by unknown artist

VIDEO: The poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling, from his book, Rewards and Fairies 1910. Read aloud by Dennis Hopper on the Johnny Cash Show in 1970.

Puck by Joshua Reynolds 1789

Bellerophon riding Pegasus and killing the Chimera, Roman mosaic, the Rolin Museum in Autun, France, 2nd-3rd C. CE