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Tiberius Gracchus
Mary Beard • SPQR
teeth. You fools, I imagined that ancient skull saying. And for a moment, I swear, it looked like it was laughing.
James Nestor • Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Aeneas and more
Mary Beard • SPQR
At the turn of the first millennium, a peasant called Leutard in the village of Vertus, near Châlons-sur-Marne in the north-east of France, had a dream. In it, a swarm of bees attacked his private parts, and then entered his body – presumably through his urethra. The dream, rather than making Leutard wake up half the village with his screaming, ins
... See moreSean Martin • The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages
gold Omega necklace, about an inch and a half wide,
Kelly Bishop • The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir
I. TIME in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things, and drowns them in the depths of obscurity, no matter if they be quite unworthy of mention, or most noteworthy and important, and thus, as the tragedian says, "he brings from the darkness all things to the birth, and all things born envelops in the night."... See more