Thursday, July 14, 2011

Lemnians

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

Sir William Russell Flint — The Lemnians — 1925

4 comments:

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

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

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

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