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agonizing doubts: the nature of things
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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Atheism, Christopher Hitchens, Cicero, Epicurus, Harold Bloom, Lucretius, Lucretius The Nature of Things, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nepos, Richard Dawkins, Sandro Botticelli, Stephen Greenblatt
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RAVENNA: ''NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED''
O lone Ravenna! many a tale is told Of thy great glories in the days of old: Two thousand years have passed since thou didst see Casar ride forth to royal victory. Mighty thy name when Rome’s lean eagles flew … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Adrian Goldsworthy, Bryan Ward Perkins, Dante Alighieri, David Frum, Dom Deluise, Edward Gibbon, Fall of the Roman Empire, Glycerius, Julius Nepos, Lord Byron, Mel Brooks History of the World Part I, Nepos, Odovacar, Orestes, Oscar Wilde, Ostrogoths Walamar, Peter Heather, Ravenna, Ravenna Mosaics, Roman Empire, Romulus Roman Emperor, Thodoric the Great, Zeno
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