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Tag Archives: Historian Strabo
MY SKULL CUP FLOWETH OVER
Lord Byron composed this poem shortly after he received a skull back from London as a drinking vessel, mounted upon an engrave pedestal with a silver rim round the edge : “Start not – nor deem my spirit fled In … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alboin, Alboin and Rosamund, Buddhist skull cup, Cunimund, Cunimundus, Edward Gibbon, G.J. Monson Fitzjohn, Guy Halsall, Historia Gentis Langobardorum, Historian Strabo, king Ratchis, Leslie Webster, Lord Byron, Michele Brown, Mount Calvary, Paul Gardiner, Peter Paul Rubens, Skull cups, skull cups tibetan art, skull cups tibetan ritual, Stefano Gasparri, Walter Goffart, Wilfried Menghen
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BARBARIANS & BLINDED BY THE DARKNESS
It’s been a long time, since anyone has been successfully convincing that with the collapse of the Roman empire, an objectively superior civilisation somehow ‘fell’, whatever that means, leading to ‘dark ages’ from which the peoples of Europe would … Continue reading →
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
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Tagged Adrian Murdoch, Attila the Hun, Ben Stiller Night at the Museum, Constantine Petrou Cavafy, Coppergate Helmet, David Frum, Eric Idle, Garth Williams British Museum, Harold Lamb, Historian Strabo, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, John Cleese, Jonathan Swift, Julius Ceasar, Monty Python Flying Circus, Monty Python Life of Brian, mud-brick.com, Rene Chateaubriand, Rugero Deodato, Ruggero Deodato, staffordshire hoard, Tacitus, Tacitus Roman Historian, Teutoburg Forest Battle, The Dark Ages, The Dark Ages Society united Kingdom, The Noble Savage, www.darkagessociety.co.uk, York helmet
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