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Nothing new under the sun
The more I read about the past, the more I feel a creepy feeling go up my spine about the present. A recent article titled: Paid not to kill in D.C. accounts the efforts of activists supporting a...
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For future archaeologists
If your looking to train your kid to be a future archaeologist, Target provides just the thing to get Mary or Billy started. For a dollar you get a brush and pick to dig your way into an...
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Something I found by Francis Bacon: “Antiquities are…remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.” What did not escape? That’s something I think about once in a while....
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Poseidon’s knife
Found this knife on Ebay. I could not resist it. I really have no use for a knife. It was as if I was prisoner of a siren’s call. The blade The handle
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Why I like M. Night Shyamalan
I want a bit of the unexplainable in my life. I want mythos and story to enter my world. Don’t get me wrong, I love science, but at one time everything was mythos for it was the only way to...
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Name that Classical Connection (10)
It’s been a long time since we played NAME THAT CLASSICAL CONNECTION. This is number 10 in the series. I ran across this cartoon in a national magazine. The Bull has the following on his button:...
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The Ancient Library of Alexandria
What history conceals, fiction reveals. This blog site will present five pieces of fiction on this ancient marvel. The first author is Alex Gough of southwest England who has kindly consented to...
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A Night out with the Romans
On a Monday evening, August 1st 1887. The hot ticket is a Roman Pageant being put on by THE ORDER OF CINCINNATUS in Cincinnati, Ohio. You stand by the window while your wife gets ready. You kill a...
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The Cure by Alex Gough
Introduction The Ancient Library of Alexandria holds a certain fascination for fans and historians alike. With that, Ancient Rome Refocused has invited authors to provide us their fiction (2000 words...
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The Attraction of 47 BCE
I have a great wife. She sees me eye a book at our local Barnes and Noble, and she is checking on her iphone to have it delivered in a few days. I just opened up a book titled Caesar by Adrian...
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The boar and the Sheridan Tank
No…no…no thank you…I don’t want to meet NOR HUNT a boar. I was in a meeting at work. I turned to a fellow employee who I thought to be a hunter in his spare time. “Have you ever hunted for wild boar?”...
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Past, Present, ?, ?
This unusual statue I found outside a secondary school in Wichita, Kansas. I don’t know if this is especially for this web site, but if you are like me, being a bibliophile somehow goes along with...
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Deus ex Machina and the TV show FARGO
WHEN FARGO ENTERED THE CLASSICAL WORLD I found a book at a library sale in Alexandria, Virginia. It is titled Smaller Classical Dictionary. It was published in 1949 by a London Press. This type of...
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The Art of History
My wife, in her infinite wisdom, is always on the look-out for a book at the library that might be of interest to me. She found the title: The Art of History by Cristopher Bram. Some of you, might...
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Imagery of Caesar
Have you seen a good poster advertising Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar? Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar Poster 1 Do you know of a dynamite poster for a theater group that performed this play? Maybe your...
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Poster Two
When beggars die there are no comets seen: The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. (Calphurnia,Act 2, Scene 2)
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Poster Three
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.” ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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Homer Book Cover 1
Tell me, Muse, the story of that resourceful man who was driven to wander far and wide after he had sacked the holy citadel of Troy. He saw the cities of many people and he learnt their ways. He...
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Homer Book Cover 2
“It is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs,laugh like a fool – it drives theman to dancing… it eventempts him to blurt out storiesbetter...
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