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fire sale
Yes, the complete Roman empire was once set on the auction block. Including Rome itself, the eternal city at the height of its glory. Yes, everything from Araby to Aragon. A very impressive piece of real estate indeed. The story … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Didius Julianus, Dio Cassius, Edward Gibbon, Emperor Nero, Laetus Praetorian Guards, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcia execution by Julianus, Pertinax, Praetorian Guards, Septimius Severus, Suetonius, Sulpicianus mayor of Rome, Tacitus Roman Historian, Thomas Couture
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the opportunist
It was early evening. The sun had just set after the assassination of Pertinex. Rome was at dinner. In the imperial courtyard a body lay without a head. The head of the emperor was a few hundred yards outside the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Commodus Roman Emperor, Didius Julianus, Dio Cassius, Edward Gibbon, Elagabalus Roman Emperor, Emperor Caligula, Jeffrey Bernard, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pertinax, Pertinax Emperor of Rome, Repentinus, Suetonius, Sulpicianus mayor of Rome, Tacitus, Tacitus Roman Historian
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great zeus: the old wild man of capri?
The Cave of Tiberius in Sperlonga. A grotto of five star caliber for a weekend getaway. They found 12,000 sculptural fragments which were about as many sides as this complex emperor… The whole may have been just a gallery of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aeneas, Bernard Andreae, Cave of Tiberius Sperlonga, Drunkenness of Polyphemus, filippo coarelli, Ganymedes Cave of Tiberius, Ganymedes Vatican Museum, Odysseus Cave of Tiberius, Roman sculptor Agesander, Roman sculptor Athenodoros, Roman sculptor Polidoro, Suetonius, Tacitus, Tiberius Caesar, Zeus-Ganymedes myth
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