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the loser
M. Licinius Crassus. Loser. This Roman general took fifty thousand disciplined, well-equipped troops, marched them into an Oriental desert, and then made every military mistake possible. The result was unprecedented disaster. Maybe a case of rising to the level of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Anthony Mann, charles laughton, General Westmoreland, King Artavasdes, King Artavasdes Armenia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Plutarch, Pompey, Roman battle at Carrhae, Spartacus, Spartacus t.v. series, Stanley Kubrick Spartacus, Surena Parthians, The Parthians, Thomas Cole, Thomas Cole Hudson River School, victory of Sulla
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free fall: pax americana?
The idea of decadence is hardly novel, in fact it has been carry on luggage since expulsion from the Garden. But what exactly constitutes decadence, and whether we are, in our time suffering its effects is not so easy to … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Goldsworthy, Alex de Toqueville, Anthony Trollope, Averil Cameron, Edward Gibbon, Emperor Tiberius, Frederico Fellini, Ilya Somin, J.C. Rolfe, Jonah Goldberg, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Spartacus t.v. series, Tom Ridge
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