The great hunt painting on the fagade of the double royal tomb at bVergina/b is more to the point. 4 It shows three horsemen and seven young men, and scenes of the hunting of deer, a boar (probably), a bear, and a lion. ... Xenophon tells us how he and his friends hunted on his 'sacred bestate/b' for Artemis (An. 5. 3. 10 ff.), but there are also Greek myths and cautionary tales about hunting indiscriminately in a sacred grove (Birge 1982, 28 and n. 62; 222-30); perhaps the ...
An elegantly renovated 18th C. country villa immersed in the green Umbrian hills overlooking the Spoleto valley; set in olive groves and park gardens its bestate/b includes a cool, mature holm-oak woodlamd area and natural water source. b.../b
