Tag Archives: Ovid Art of Love

bowing to the dominant emotion

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Dave

When something big was up. That was the Year One. No one could have foreseen such consequences. Often, great historical processes begin invisibly and only later is it possible to pin down the critical date. The strangest thing is that … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Augustus, Cecille B. Demille The Sign of the Cross, claudette colbert, Dionysius Exiguus, E.M. Forster, Edward Gibbon, Jean Leon Gerome, Joseph Flavius, Josephus the Jewish War, Juan Luna paintings, L. Amelius Paulus, Ovid Art of Love, Ovid Metamorphoses, Rogier van der Weyden, Virgil Aenid | Leave a comment

banished and vanished

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Dave

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 →