La Spedizione Siciliana

Italian 3008 – Spring 2016 – Professors Barbara Weiden Boyd and Davida Gavioli

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Meditations on Weather

March 25, 2016 By agorman

  
After spending a grand total of five minutes on the island, we got our first taste of Sicilian weather: clouds and rain appearing out of nowhere, followed by beautiful sunshine.

The mutability of Mediterranean weather surprised me, but it also helped explain why Zeus was considered the chief deity of ancient times. It would be hard to imagine ancient New Hampshirans worshipping a thunder god when it only storms once a month.

Angus

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