Sublime

Right in the middle of this gradual and incremental conquest of Britain, in 60 to 61 AD, the most serious uprising against Roman hegemony took off, within what had been the most Rome-friendly part of Britain: the south-east. When the Iceni client king Prasutagus died, his kingdom was annexed by Rome – just as if it had been conquered – and his daug

The small Spanish force went berserk, chopping off the hands of drummers before attacking the crowds with spears and swords. “The blood…ran like water, like slimy water; the stench of blood filled the air,” as the Europeans went from door to door looking for new victims.

In philosophy, this cosmopolitan point of view begins with the Stoics, but in practice it begins earlier, with Alexander. It had the result that the interaction of Greek and barbarian was reciprocal: The barbarians learnt something of Greek science, while the Greeks learnt much of barbarian superstition. Greek civilization, in covering a wider area