Latest video
Close
Video from
pontificating over piShake your hips
Tag Archives: Edward Gibbon
pool party
It was not merely an empire. It was the world. The Roman Empire. And yet, one evening it was offered up for sale to the highest bidder. What is more, the man who would be emperor by midnight began dinner … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anthony Mann, Anthony Mann The fall of the Roman Empire, Christopher Plummer, Commodus Roman Emperor, cy twombly, Edward Gibbon, Hyperion the satyr, Josephus Flavius, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcus Aurelius, Tacitus Roman Historian, The Praetorian Guard, Titus and Domitian, Vespasian Emperor
Leave a comment
heretics and art: unorthodox conceptions
We seem to be living in the age of the heretic. The orthodox Church of heresy.Is the new heresy to accept that there are many rules? Is it a heresy to swim with the tide? Are those “rebels” really actually … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Certosa di Pavia, Chris Burden, E.H. Gombrich, Edmund Gurney, Edward Gibbon, Eleanor Heartney, Erasmus, Gale Iain, joel-peter witkin, John Vicar, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Peter Paul Rubens, Protestant Reformation, Puritan England, seth godin
Leave a comment
the booty sellers: sparatacus complex
Human plunder in the kinds of quantities the ancients were accustomed to created problems for an army on the march. It could become completely bogged down. The Sparatacus complex. In 218 B.C. King Philip V of Macedon invaded Elis in … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arch of Septimus Severus, Arch of Titus, Cicero, Cicero correspondence with Caesar, Column of Marcus Aurelius, Column of Marcus Aurelius Pantheon Rome, Edward Gibbon, Flavius Josephus, Florentinus Roman Jurist, Horace Roman poet, Island of Delos, King Philip V of Macedon, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marius Roman emperor, Slave Trading Roman Empire, Slavery in Roman Empire
Leave a comment
slavery to serfdom: the empire strikes black
There were some hairsplitting decisions in slavery such as between the general flow of human cargo and sub-categories such as the commercial transactions regarding eunuchs for example. But distinctions have to be drawn. The ancient world was in many respects … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged busby berkeley, Cicero, Don Nardo, Edward Gibbon, F.R. Cowell, Greek slavery history, Herodotus, Lionel Casson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michael Grant, Robert C. Davis, Roman Empire serfdom, Roman Empire slavery, Roman slave revolts, Sarah Pomeroy, Seneca, Seneca Roman stoic, Slave revolts Roman EMpire, Spartacus slave revolt
Leave a comment
slave : everything but free them
The Old Ways. The peculiar institution of the Roman Empire known as slavery. The Greeks and later the Romans practiced slavery and condoned it for reasons of war, luxury and business, and even the jolt of Christianity could little dent … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Cicero, Don Nardo, Eddie Cantor, Edward Gibbon, F.R. Cowell, Herodotus, Lionel Casson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Michael Grant, Plutarch, Roman slave markets, Roman slave trade, Sarah Pomeroy, Seneca Greek stoic, Slavery Greek history, Slavery in Roman Empire
Leave a comment
how much is that slave in the window?
As a commodity, slaves created peculiar problems for the merchant. Apparently in the larger cities there were a few shops where slaves could be bought: in Rome in Nero’s time they were concentrated near the temple of Castor in the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Capua slave market, Cicero, Don Nardo, Edward Gibbon, F.R. Cowell, Florentinus Roman Jurist, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Leon Gerome, Josephus Flavius, Lionel Casson, Michael Grant, Robert C. Davis, Roman slave markets, Roman slave revolts, Sarah Pomeroy, Seneca, Seneca Greek stoic, Slavery Ancient Rome
Leave a comment
slave: barbarians and barter for the buck
Slavery. A peculiar institution of the Old World. The Greeks and Romans practiced slavery and condoned it; that is, condoned it for war, condoned it for luxury and condoned it for business. But even then, they knew it to be … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Ancient Roman slave trade, ancient slave revolts, Capua gladiator school, Cicero, Edward Gibbon, Flavius Josephus, Florentinus Roman Jurist, Horace Roman poet, Jacques-Louis David, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Marcus Aurelius column Rome, Roman Retiarus gladiator, Slavery Greek history, Slavery in the Roman Empire, Sparatacus slave revolt, Spartacus
Leave a comment
deathbed manumissions
It is a particular institution of the Old World: slavery. The Greeks and Romans practiced slavery and condoned it- for war, for luxury, and for business. But even they knew it to be evil… Bills of sale were usually written … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Augustus Roman emperor, Edward Gibbon, Gustave Boulanger, Horace Roman poet, Jean Leon Gerome, Kevin Bales, Kevin Bales Free the Slaves, Robert C. Davis, Slave trade history, Slave Trading Roman Empire, Slavery Greek history, Slavery in the Roman Empire
Leave a comment
somewhere between 2 B.C. and 6 A.D.
There was the Year One. In the sixth century, Dionysius Exiguus presented a calculation of the “first year of our Lord”; it was slightly inaccurate, given the scant and conflicting evidence in the Gospels, and on neither of those accounts … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alfred Newman, Anton Raphael Mengs, Augustus, Ceres pagan madonna, Dionysius Exiguus, E.M. Forster, Edward Gibbon, G.K. Chesterton, geologist jefferson williams, Henry Koster, Hieronymous Bosch, Josephus Flavius, King Herod, Konrad Witz, Leptis Magna theater, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pliny the Younger, Richard Burton
Leave a comment
COMMENTS
