Claims
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David Bromwich in the Huffington Post writing about US torture etc. mentions, inter alia: Romans of the imperial age practiced torture against enemy combatants on an imposing scale of unrestraint. The gloves were really off. Any viewer of the final montage of Kubrick’s film of Spartacus will remember the captives of the slave rebellion nailed…
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Folks who follow me on Twitter (for whatever reason) know that I spent much of yesterday returning to using Thunderbird as my email program of choice, during the course of which I came across assorted things which I had put aside to check out later, etc.. Among those items was the oft-repeated story about people…
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This one’s starting to bother me, even though I’ve now seen the ‘mask’ being identified with varying degrees of certainty as ‘possibly’ Marcus Antonius. A correspondent sends in a nice video from the site (from a German version of Reuters; the video is in English), which I can’t embed, so here’s the link. What I…
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I was wondering if there’d be a claim trying to connect Easter eggs to the Romans … the closest seems to be a piece on the mystery of Easter eggs which mentions (but doesn’t make a specific connection): pregnant young Roman women carried an egg on their persons to foretell the sex of their unborn…
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I’ve seen this first one (from USA Today this time) a couple of times now: Alexander the Great is also said to have had one blue and one brown eye. I’ve never managed to find any more details on that one … This second one — from something called Dream Dogs — strikes me as…
rogue classicism 