Popculch
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N.S. Gill is on the story … looks like roughly 20% come from the period of our purview: Time’s Top 100 People Ever
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T’other day, Steven Saylor drew our attention to a very interesting sculpture: It’s entitled ‘Saturnalia’ and is by Ernesto Biondi … I suspect you may have seen it at some point in your life in a textbook or internet site explaining what the Roman festival was all about (more photos here). If you look at…
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No, not the movie … the original meaning of ‘pulp fiction’ as in cheaply/mass-produced fiction which was most likely what protogeeks spent time reading after they had read Lord of the Rings but before the internet was invented. Anyhoo, Roman piracy was apparently a popular theme in many such novels and Golden Gazette News has…
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I don’t think we’ve ever posted this one here before and a tip o’ the pileus to Joanne Conman for reminding us of its existence … goes to some Gilbert and Sullivan tune, of course … here’s the first verse: I am the very model of a staunch Roman Republican I like to read from…
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This one just showed up on Youtube and I am not familiar with the first bit; the second bit is from the 1907 version of Ben Hur, but this one’s really interesting (not least for scenes of gladiatorial fighting, the fire of Rome, Nero (maybe) etc.). You should check out the ‘time markers’ first to…
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