HERMES 90cm SILK SCARF - LE VOYAGE DE PYTHEAS
by ALINE HONORE
Once you discover Aline Honore, you learn she makes the most exquisite borders. That's one reason this scarf has become slightly grail-y, but what pulled me in to the design was - of course - the bears! The whales! The narwhals! There are a bunch of other animals that also make me happy. And yet I haven't found quite the right ensemble to wear this with. I desperately want this to work but at this time it's on the bubble of the re-home pile; feel free to make me an offer.
From the Hermes Story Behind:
In the Lacedonian cove, six centuries before our era, the Phoenicians founded their first colony: Massalia, which would become Marseille. The Greek Pytheas, contemporary of Alexander the Great and Aristotle, was born there two hundred years later. Eager for discoveries, he managed to convince the assembly to finance an extraordinary journey which took him in search of amber and tin, well beyond the Mediterranean, into the hitherto unexplored northern seas. From this journey which made him one of the first explorers, he brought back a fascinating story of which only a few extracts have reached us, cited by authors such as Ptolemy. The tides and the influence of the Moon, the calculation of the obliquity of the Earth like the latitudes of these distant lands, the habits and customs of the Celts or the Goths, the dimensions of Great Britain... Mocked by many of his contemporaries, statements were little by little, over the centuries, considered with the interest they deserve: some fantastic they became probable, some generally verified. The extraordinary journey of Pytheas, recounted on silk, pays tribute to the man and his hometown.
From the Hermes Story Behind:
In the Lacedonian cove, six centuries before our era, the Phoenicians founded their first colony: Massalia, which would become Marseille. The Greek Pytheas, contemporary of Alexander the Great and Aristotle, was born there two hundred years later. Eager for discoveries, he managed to convince the assembly to finance an extraordinary journey which took him in search of amber and tin, well beyond the Mediterranean, into the hitherto unexplored northern seas. From this journey which made him one of the first explorers, he brought back a fascinating story of which only a few extracts have reached us, cited by authors such as Ptolemy. The tides and the influence of the Moon, the calculation of the obliquity of the Earth like the latitudes of these distant lands, the habits and customs of the Celts or the Goths, the dimensions of Great Britain... Mocked by many of his contemporaries, statements were little by little, over the centuries, considered with the interest they deserve: some fantastic they became probable, some generally verified. The extraordinary journey of Pytheas, recounted on silk, pays tribute to the man and his hometown.
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