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Fall of rome: when the world was young

…The slaves, with their outlandish customs and religions; the orgiastic cults of Isis, Cybele , and the Syrian Demeter- in turn adulterated the political consensus of the republic’s most vigorous days, introducing the notion of an Oriental despotism, of the … Continue reading

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WILL THE LAST BARBARIAN POETICALLY TURN OUT THE LIGHT

The barbarian invasions destroyed classical civilization in the period 350-700 A.D. The period included  the fall of Rome in A.D. 476 and through the 500 or so years that followed ,   the Dark Ages became the early Middle Ages. … Continue reading

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ROMANA GOETHE & EROTICA FAUSTINA

”Goethe’s writings are among the most unabashedly autobiographical in world literature. They are so frank and utterly open as to carry well beyond the reality of objective events into the much more intimately real imaginative world. That may be why … Continue reading

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