Tag Archives: Tacitus

the opportunist

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | 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 | Leave a comment

trial of JC: 12 angry pharisees

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Dave

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?… The author of Mark endeavors to meet the difficulty by transferring the responsibility … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Arch of Titus, Flavius Josephus, Francesco Hayez, Giotto di Bordone, James Tissot, Josephus the Jewish War, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Markan Gospel, Pauline Christians, rabbi tovia singer, Schmuley Boteach, Shlomo Amar, Synoptic Gospels, Tacitus, The Gospel of Mark, The Jewish Revolt, The Jewish War, Titus and Domitian, Trial of Jesus, Vespasian | Leave a comment

great zeus: the old wild man of capri?

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Dave

The Cave of Tiberius in Sperlonga. A grotto of five star caliber for a weekend getaway. They found 12,000 sculptural fragments which were about as many sides as this complex emperor… The whole may have been just a gallery of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Aeneas, Bernard Andreae, Cave of Tiberius Sperlonga, Drunkenness of Polyphemus, filippo coarelli, Ganymedes Cave of Tiberius, Ganymedes Vatican Museum, Odysseus Cave of Tiberius, Roman sculptor Agesander, Roman sculptor Athenodoros, Roman sculptor Polidoro, Suetonius, Tacitus, Tiberius Caesar, Zeus-Ganymedes myth | Leave a comment

BARBARIANS & BLINDED BY THE DARKNESS

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Dave

It’s been a long time, since anyone has been successfully convincing that with the collapse of the Roman empire, an objectively superior civilisation somehow ‘fell’, whatever that means, leading to ‘dark ages’ from which the peoples of Europe would … Continue reading →