Hi all, sorry to trouble you. We came across this monument but unfortunately Google translate isn’t shedding much light on it – says it is a school? But then I’m not quite sure if that is right? Please can you help me and tell me what this means? Many thanks!
by SomewhatAnonamoose
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If you are British, we will kill you.
It’s a monument that commemorates the EOKA struggle against the British (1955-1959).
The lion is a common symbol of the British empire. The boy is depicted with a schoolbag because famously Evagoras was underage and still a student, but it didn’t stop the Brits from executing him.
He was also a poet.
Edit to add that the monument seems to commemorate specifically students/graduates of this particular high school
if you are from UK u are fckd
EOKA memorial of heroes who died during the Struggle. All three were very young(the first one was a cousin of President Makarios), the other two were students I think. All executed by the Crown
Local mailman and how he sees peoples dogs
Cypriots randomly killing animals
The boy who managed to give a pill to his cat
The piece is from the Hellenistic period of Greece circa 300bc.
What you see is a man being taken shoe shopping by his wife personified as a lion. Here we have the wife trying on the same type of identical shoe for the 9th time and the man finally snapping.
If you look beyond the obvious, what you will find is the man has taken his own jacket, bundled it into a ball and is about to ram it down his wife’s throat.
There are 3 such pieces of male emancipation in existence. The one that you see here was recently dismantled by art thieves and sold on the black market. Rumour has it that it has been scanned to become an NFT with the sculpture itself ground down and cut in with some of the finest Colombian blow.