Imagine being able to lie down comfortably and have above us a huge screen, curved, or better yet spherical, where we can see and marvel at the stories that tell of myths and perfumes. It would really be something wonderful! Stuff to lose your mind and spend entire days on! Who knows if one day technology will be able to give us something so prodigious.

If LG, the undisputed leader in screens, Apple, and the best computer engineers fail to succeed, let's not despair: all this already exists. It's just that, distracted as we are, busy with a thousand things as we are, we have lost track of it. The ancients, on the other hand, knew it and spent unforgettable evenings in front of it.

Above our heads every night the sky tells of dragons, deities, beautiful women, mythological animals, and fantastic worlds. There is, for example, the sign of the irresistible Ariadne, the beloved of Theseus, who, having escaped from the labyrinth thanks to the stratagem of the thread invented by her, abandons her alone - with great ingratitude - on the island of Naxos. (Hence, among other things, the saying to plant in Asso!). It was on that island that Bacchus - god of pleasure and change - conquers the young girl, and, after giving her as a gift, throws a crown of diamonds into the sky.

That gesture transforms the nine gems that make up that diadem into nine brilliant stars. They can be admired (in the Corona Borealis) in the summer firmament. And while Ariadne is portrayed in the works of art beautiful and joyful among aromas and perfumes in the arms of Bacchus, Theseus can only look at the sky with his nose in the air thinking of her. He who makes it, expects it!

In spring, however, the time of rebirth after winter, the sun crosses the celestial equator and passes into the northern hemisphere, crossing the constellation of Pisces. Anyone born under this sign knows this.
Perhaps he doesn't know that in that constellation there are two extraordinary figures of Greek myth; the first is Aphrodite, goddess of beauty, love and - we could say - of intercourse, the other is Eros, god of desire and physical love. In short, an "erotic bomb!". It is said that the two, to escape the Titans and in particular the monster Theseus, who had a hundred heads and sprayed fire from his eyes, after hiding in a reed bed, and being discovered, transformed themselves into fish, rose to the sky, and now you can admire them there, looking up towards the constellation of the same name on clear days between August and March.

Aphrodite loves smells more than anyone else, so much so that she is remembered as the Goddess of Perfumes. On the other hand, if it is true that these are considered a powerful weapon of seduction, she could only be the one to hold the scepter. Phaon knows something about it, to whom Aphrodite, as a sign of gratitude, had given a jar of perfumed oil. That oil made him attractive and irresistible, so much so that all the women of Mytilene fell madly in love with him. Perhaps that time the goddess exaggerated a little, because those fiery women, attracted by that uncontrollable charm, turned out to be the cause of the death of poor Phaon. Who perished like that, loved and very perfumed.