Tag Archives: Emperor Tiberius

auctioned off: quickie sale

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Dave

The night they auctioned off the Roman Empire. It was not merely an empire, it was the world. … In the second century A.D. Rome stretched across a million and a half square miles, from Scotland to the Sahara, from … Continue reading →

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trial and sedition: tribute money and pay now plan

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Dave

This triumph must have made the Jewish Revolt very real to the people of Rome; it was designed to render them vividly aware of the gravity of the danger from which the new emperor and his son had delivered them. … Continue reading →

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cave of tiberius: great grotto its got fragments

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Dave

The cave of Tiberius. Twelve thousand fragments in an Emperor’s sculpture gallery made a jigsaw puzzle for archaeologists. 1957. With every scoop of the shovel, the archaeologists became more certain that they had located what had once been the gallery … Continue reading →

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free fall: pax americana?

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Dave

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 →