Requena: An Amazonian Adventure, June 2007
Requena is a little town of about 30,000 located 100 miles south of Iquitos on the Ucayali River. A placard over the tourist office claims it is “The Athens of…
Nestor ~
In the Iliad, Nestor was the oldest Greek at the Siege of Troy. He looked upon the great Achilles, Ajax, and Diamedes as puny compared to his generation of heros at the Siege of Thebes…That was a real battle! So much for Homer’s view of cranky oldsters…