Thursday, July 14, 2011

Lemnians

People of Lemnos, doing . . . um . . . I dunno . . . Lemnian stuff . . .

Sir William Russell Flint — The Lemnians — 1925

4 comments:

Caio Fern said...

wonderful, isn't it ?

Annie said...

Comparing this unsavory scene to your comment, I had to laugh!

Anonymous said...

It is a slave market, probably in North Africa selling Lemnians captives of the Greek revolution against the Turks, between 1821 - 1827

Thomas Haller Buchanan said...

Yeah, that's what I said. Thanks for rephrasing it, Anonymous.