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disturbed but preserved
After two millennia, the words still strike with amazement, the visions still transport us, there are still secrets only half discovered.Most of the ancient books have been destroyed either intentionally or accidentally, hatred and forgetfulness have obliterated vast treasures of … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron ben Moses ben Asher, Abraham Cresques Catalan Atlas, Akkadian words, Aristophanes, Babylonian King Hammurabi, Bram Stoker, Catalan Atlas, Hammurabi Law Code, Hungarian Angevin Legendary Hungary, Karl Marx, Livy historian, Livy History of Rome, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides, Neil MacGregor British Museum, Pompeii frescoes, Stele of Hammurabi, The Aleppo Codex, Vatican Library
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banished and vanished
Augustus the Imperator. When you have a standing army of 300,000 men you can call yourself just about anything and people will agree with you. In 2 B.C. he had been given the title pater patriae, Father of the Nation, … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustus, Augustus banishes Julia, Augustus banishes Ovid, E.M. Forster, Edmund Spenser, Horace, JMW Turner, Johann Heinrich Schonfeld, john dryden, John Milton, Joseph Mallord William Turner, L. Aemilius Paulus, Livy historian, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maecenas and Augustus, Ovid, Ovid Art of Love, Pablo Picasso, Virgil Aenid, Virgil and Horace
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