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Tag Archives: Constantine Petrou Cavafy
CARE & HANDLING OF BARBARIANS
Expecting the Barbarians refers to an incident in early Roman history when the barbarians did arrive. The irony is that, in the poem, they do not arrive. The idea being that the ”barbarian” is interior to the individual, representing the … Continue reading →
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BARBARIANS & BLINDED BY THE DARKNESS
It’s been a long time, since anyone has been successfully convincing that with the collapse of the Roman empire, an objectively superior civilisation somehow ‘fell’, whatever that means, leading to ‘dark ages’ from which the peoples of Europe would … Continue reading →
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
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Tagged Adrian Murdoch, Attila the Hun, Ben Stiller Night at the Museum, Constantine Petrou Cavafy, Coppergate Helmet, David Frum, Eric Idle, Garth Williams British Museum, Harold Lamb, Historian Strabo, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, John Cleese, Jonathan Swift, Julius Ceasar, Monty Python Flying Circus, Monty Python Life of Brian, mud-brick.com, Rene Chateaubriand, Rugero Deodato, Ruggero Deodato, staffordshire hoard, Tacitus, Tacitus Roman Historian, Teutoburg Forest Battle, The Dark Ages, The Dark Ages Society united Kingdom, The Noble Savage, www.darkagessociety.co.uk, York helmet
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