Greek Daggers for ID + Translation pls.

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Originally Posted by ariel

Interesting... Based on the form of handles and the crude manner of decorations, I would have thought of Syria, or shibria-type .
But the inscriptions..... Was it in vogue to sound so bathetic? I guess Prozac was not yet invented, otherwise the general outlook of the owners would have been more cheerful.

Hey Ariel, you forget that Greece gave birth to drama? It's in the nature of Greek to be, sometimes, a little more dramatic


George

[pakana]

Usually, this kind of poetry written on knifes is seen on Cretan knifes, and it resembles to Cretan "mantinada", which is poetry in two lines, usually with a variety of themes, most of them with a dramatic tone.

George