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fire sale
Yes, the complete Roman empire was once set on the auction block. Including Rome itself, the eternal city at the height of its glory. Yes, everything from Araby to Aragon. A very impressive piece of real estate indeed. The story … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Didius Julianus, Dio Cassius, Edward Gibbon, Emperor Nero, Laetus Praetorian Guards, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcia execution by Julianus, Pertinax, Praetorian Guards, Septimius Severus, Suetonius, Sulpicianus mayor of Rome, Tacitus Roman Historian, Thomas Couture
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the opportunist
It was early evening. The sun had just set after the assassination of Pertinex. Rome was at dinner. In the imperial courtyard a body lay without a head. The head of the emperor was a few hundred yards outside the … Continue reading
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Tagged Commodus Roman Emperor, Didius Julianus, Dio Cassius, Edward Gibbon, Elagabalus Roman Emperor, Emperor Caligula, Jeffrey Bernard, lawrence Alma-Tadema, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pertinax, Pertinax Emperor of Rome, Repentinus, Suetonius, Sulpicianus mayor of Rome, Tacitus, Tacitus Roman Historian
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rome up for sale! …everything must go!
There was a night they auctioned off the Roman Empire. From the west coast to the east, it was released, from Araby to Aragon, including the Eternal City Rome at the height of its glory. All in all, it was … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anthony Mann The fall of the Roman Empire, Christopher Plummer, Commodus, Didius Julianis, Eclectus Commodus's chamberlain, Edward Gibbon, Emperor Vespasian, Josephus Flavius, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcia and Commodus, Marcus Aurelius, Pertinax Roman Emperor, Praetorian Guard Laetus, T.S. Eliot, Tacitus Roman Historian, Thomas Cole painting, Titus and Domitian
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pool party
It was not merely an empire. It was the world. The Roman Empire. And yet, one evening it was offered up for sale to the highest bidder. What is more, the man who would be emperor by midnight began dinner … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Mann, Anthony Mann The fall of the Roman Empire, Christopher Plummer, Commodus Roman Emperor, cy twombly, Edward Gibbon, Hyperion the satyr, Josephus Flavius, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcus Aurelius, Tacitus Roman Historian, The Praetorian Guard, Titus and Domitian, Vespasian Emperor
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the temple affair: politics and religion don’t mix
According to the Markan Gospel on its account of the Sanhedrin trial, after failing to get sufficient evidence about the Temple affair the high priest then asked Jesus directly whether he claimed to be the Messiah of Israel: “Are you … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Annas and Caiphas, Caiaphas High Priest, Flavius Josephus, Gospel of Mark, Josephus the Jewish War, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Matthias Stom, Mihaly Munkacsy, Pontius Pilate, Rossano Gospels, Rossano Manuscript, roy buchanan, Tacitus Roman Historian, Trial of Jesus, Vespasian destruction of the Second Temple, Vespasian Emperor
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guilty was the verdict : temple tantrum
The trial of Jesus. Was Christ condemned to death by the Jews, as tradition has held for so long? , those precursors of the Zionists, or was he really executed by the Romans as a political offender? …. …The author … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Emperor Vespasian, Flavius Josephus, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Gospel of Mark, Il Grechetto, Jesus and the Sanhedrin, Jesus cleansing the Temple, Josephus the Jewish War, King Herod, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Markan Gospel, Pontius Pilate, Rossano Manuscript, Tacitus Roman Historian, The Jewish Revolt, The Jewish War, Titus and Domitian, Trial of Jesus, valentin de Boulogne
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trial and sedition: tribute money and pay now plan
This triumph must have made the Jewish Revolt very real to the people of Rome; it was designed to render them vividly aware of the gravity of the danger from which the new emperor and his son had delivered them. … Continue reading
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Tagged Arch of Titus, Bob Dylan, Caravaggio, Daniel Sperber, Emperor Tiberius, Emperor Vespasian, Flavius Josephus, Josephus the Jewish War, King Herod, Leonard Cohen, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Moshe Katsav, Pontius Pilate, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Shlomo Amar, Tacitus Roman Historian, Temple at Didyma, The Gospel of Mark, The Jewish War, Trial of Jesus, Vespasian destruction of the Second Temple, Woody Allen
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trial by hurry: trying to nail the truth
The trial of Jesus. Was Christ condemned to death by the Jews, as tradition has held for so long, or was he really executed by the Romans as a political offender? By a strange irony of history, the surest thing … Continue reading
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Tagged Crucifixion of Jesus, Flavius Josephus, Histories of Tacitus, James Cameron, James Charlesworth, James tabor, Jesus of Nazareth, Jewish Revolt 70 A.D., Josephus the Jewish War, Prof. James Charlesworth, Simcha Jacobovici, Tacitus Roman Historian, The Gospel of Mark, Tomb of Caiaphas, Trial of Jesus, William Blake
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grotto of iniquity
The end of the innocence. Monotheism completely changed the aesthetics of the Roman Empire and art in general. Tiberius was at the cusp of those changes, but even he could not foresee its impact… It began as a construction project … Continue reading
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Tagged Cave of Tiberius Sperlonga, Gustave Courbet, Hannibal campaign, Laocoon priest of Thymbraean, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Odysseus Sirens' Song, Pliny Natural History, Plutarch, Second Punic War, Seutonius, Tacitus Roman Historian, Tacitus The Annals, Tiberius Caesar grotto
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