Hua Chenyu - Ship of Theseus 华晨宇 - 忒修斯之船 (fan video 🌹)

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Music -
Hua Chenyu - Ship of Theseus
Mars Concert Nanchang 21-07-2024
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Artwork -
01. Fresco of Ariadne pointing at the ship of Theseus leaving.
1st century BC. Herculaneum
-On Crete, Theseus (a divine hero and the founder of Athens from Greek mythology) seduced Minos' daughter, Ariadne, who conspired to help him kill the Minotaur and escape by giving him a ball of yarn to unroll as he moved throughout the labyrinth.Theseus managed to flee Crete with Ariadne, but then abandoned her on the island of Naxos during the voyage back to Athens.
02. Fresco of Theseus abandoning Ariadne. 35-45 AD. Pompeii
03. Fresco of warship behind arcade. Pompeii
04. Fresco of Ariadne abandoned by Theseus. Pompeii
05. Fresco of Theseus abandoning Ariadne. Pompeii
06. Minoan fresco, 1600 BC. Akrotiri, Thera (Santorini)
07. Minoan fresco of dolphins
08. Konstantinos Volanakis - The shipyard. 19th century
09. Fresco of a boat on the river Tiber. 2nd century AD
10. Fresco of a ship procession. Akrotiri, Thera (Santorini)
11. Roman fresco of 2 young men in a boat on the river, port of San Paolo
12. Francis Danby - Shipwreck. 1850
13. Minoan fresco of Spring with flowers and swallows.
-Spring symbolizes renewal
14. Etruscan fresco of a flute player. 5th century BC
15. Fresco of Pan playing flute. Pompeii
16. Etruscan fresco. 5th century BC
17. Fresco of a blue bird. Akrotiri, Thera (Santorini) 1700 BC
18. Gustave Dore - Baron von Munchhausen. 1862
19. Dionysus, Greek pottery. 540-530 BC
20. Athenian warship, Greek pottery. 6th century BC
21. Greek pottery
22. Antoine Gudin - Dutch ship Columbus. 1829
23. John William Waterhouse - The awakening of Adonis. 1899
In Waterhouse’ painting the beautiful Adonis is awakened with a kiss from Venus in her Elysian pleasure-garden.The garden is fecund with roses (symbols of Venus) and anemone flowers that were said to grow from the blood of the dying Adonis. The mythological legend of Adonis, as represented in the painting, is symbolic of the renewal of life, vigour, and desire at the arrival of spring.
24. George Frederic Watts - Chaos. ca. 1875
-Chaos is the mythological void state preceding the creation of the universe (the cosmos) in early Greek cosmology.
25. Alexandre Cabanel - Psyche. 1881
-Psyche is the Greek goddess of the soul and often represented as a beautiful woman with butterfly wings.The name Psyche means "soul" in Greek.
26. Greek pottery, 420 BC
27. Fresco in Pompeii, 50-79 AD
28. A bard (possibly Orpheus) playing a lyre. Fresco, Megaron in Pylos. ca 1200 BC
The ship of Theseus is a paradox regarding identity over time. One version, positing a scenario in which all the parts of a ship are replaced gradually and one at a time, poses this question: Is the vessel that exists after the replacements the same ship as the vessel that existed before the replacements?
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