Illyria

any good uh mythological person goes into the wilderness that's that's hey if there's one thing i know from like writing and studying mythology any good story has a part where you go into the wilderness that's how you tell any story it's part of hero's journey yes going into the wild is how you construct a story no matter what you're doing so it makes perfect sense even

in the tales around like alexander this kind of stuff happens where he's like goes off into Illyria and like there's stories about like Robert the Bruce and in the cave with the spider and all that yeah it's true Buddha as well Buddha as well yeah I've read some really

interesting stuff not to go off on a mad tangent here but about how like storytelling would have developed for humans as a way to communicate information about what is safe and what we should do and what is necessary and the way that we gain knowledge knowledge and information as a culture is by going into the unknown and returning and that's why that hero's journey structure is a journey from the familiar into the unknown and coming back with having gained knowledge that's a story structure that resonates with us probably because evolutionarily that's how we gathered information and like told stories and learned how to be in the world which is why it reoccurs everywhere

interesting it does make sense yeah um i just just at this point i just thought i'd give you just a little uh information on the actual gospels themselves please do so you you may have heard um that there's all sorts of gospels there's lots of this different gospels so i thought i'd answer the question why are these four gospels considered the canonical gospels it's really not that sexy an answer like it's just they're the four earliest ones right it literally is that boring like Or we think they're the foreigners.

Viola, Sebastian, Duke, Olivia.

The school is Illyria.

Point is, we've all been influenced by Shakespeare's work, even if we don't think we have.

However, there is a small subsection of scholars out there who don't believe that Shakespeare wrote his plays at all, and these are a group of people called anti-Stratfordians.

and to the east beyond the Axios River, into Macedonia and regions settled by Thracian tribes.

To the north of Macedonia by various non-Greek peoples, such as the Peonians, due north, the Thracians to the northeast, and the Illyrians, with whom the Macedonians were frequently in conflict to the northwest.

Chalcidice was settled early on by southern Greek colonists, and was considered part of the Greek world.

While from the late 2nd millennium BC, substantial Greek settlement also occurred on the eastern shores of the Aegean and Anatolia.

Battles were fought, and the Illyrian queen Teuta defeated the Greek counterattack and occupied several islands and coastal cities in the Adriatic Sea.

These Illyrians had taken to pirating Italian ships, especially as more Italian trade shifted toward Illyria and Greece when the waters around Sicily became a war zone.

Between the piracy and Greek cities calling for aid from any party that was willing to help, Rome was enticed to cross the Adriatic for the first time.

They arrived too late to rescue the island of Corcyra, modern Corfu, from a siege where both the Aetolian and Achaean Greeks had been driven off.

But in the immediate wake of the First Punic War, Rome had a sizable and experienced navy.

The local tyrant, Demetrius of Pharos, threw in with Rome and welcomed a 200-ship fleet into Corcyra along with over 20,000 Roman legionnaires.

In short order, the Roman fleet broke off ongoing Illyrian sieges of Greek towns, and the Roman army deployed on land to raid the Illyrian heartland.

Seaborne Roman raids of Illyrian towns applied pressure, while the Roman army marched on the Illyrian capital of Rison, forcing Queen Teuta to surrender, pay an indemnity to Rome, and promise not to send her fleet too far south, effectively gutting Illyrian naval power in the Adriatic.

A second historical interpretation tells that in 1291 the Crusaders were expelled from the Holy Land by the Muslims and that some Christians saved the house of the Virgin from destruction.

First they brought it to a village in Illyria where the Shrine of Our Lady was later built in memory of this appearance.

and then later in the night between the 9th and 10th of December 1294 it was transported to the ancient municipality of Rinconati first at the port and then on a hill in a public street where it is still hosted today.

Both the authoritative tradition and archaeological and philological studies agree that this transportation was possible thanks to the help of heaven and angelic intervention.

I hear her breath first, ragged, almost gasping.

A minute ago, I'd been cataloging coin impressions from Illyria, something to tune out the storm.

Now Lena's words ricochet in panic.

"They moved them," she says.

Persons represented.

Orsino, Duke of Illyria, read by Linda B. Sebastian, a young gentleman, brother to Viola, read by Sonia.

Antonio, a sea captain, friend to Sebastian, read by Tony Addison.

A sea captain, friend to Viola, read by John Burlinson.

Viola, in love with the Duke, read by Sonia.

Maria, Olivia's woman, read by Linda B. Lords, priests, sailors, officers, musicians, and other attendants.

Scene, a city in Illyria and the sea coast near it.

Act One.