Tag Archives: Cicero

shapes of things: grim final discords

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Dave

….at last the signs of death in the hollowed cheeks and nostrils and bared teeth. Enough? No. Lucretius does not stop there; he goes on, still with the same febrile, fascinated attention, to describe the disintegration of society, the sick … Continue reading →

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Cave of Tiberius: getaway grotto

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Dave

In the cave of Tiberius .Twelve thousand fragments in an Emperor’s sculpture gallery made a jigsaw puzzle for archaeologists… In the late summer of 1957 a gang of men labored beneath the grilling sun, building a road along the Tyrrhenian … Continue reading →

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the booty sellers: sparatacus complex

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Dave

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 →

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slavery to serfdom: the empire strikes black

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Dave

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 →

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slave : everything but free them

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Dave

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 →

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how much is that slave in the window?

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Dave

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 →

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slave: barbarians and barter for the buck

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Dave

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 →

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agonizing doubts: the nature of things

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Dave

Can reason and logic solve all of people’s problems? The great Roman poet Lucretius seems to take the affirmative side in the individual’s unending debate on this question- but his verses are charged with agonizing doubts. The material of the … Continue reading →