“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
From the recent shared pdf… Then too, the accelerated discussions of the Donation of Constantine (such as the origin of imperial power, the basis of papal authority over temporals, the pope and the transfer of empire, the pope‟s claims to Rome and the patrimony) since the eleventh century kept alive the issue of the […]
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Ptolemy I as Pharaoh of Egypt, British Museum, London Founder of the Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt which lasted 275 years – until the death of Cleopatra by some snaky business. Oh. And he was Alexander of Macedon’s General and Historian. Busy, busy pharaoh dude :o) Wiki : Ptolemy I Soter
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It’s very weird how one thing can lead to another! I started with Dante and Beatrice (Bee-a-tree-chay…oops. Done that one.) and ended up in the Babylonian Captivity. Shrug. Wiki : Dante Wiki : Beatrice Portinari O all ye passing by along Love’s way, attend a while and see if there be sorrow such as […]
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Or… …If you are as steeped in 12thC Welsh History as I am. Warband. Them Ravens are a-talking again :o) TAY-lee
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aka The Merovingian. Wiki : Merovingian dynasty France got the Dynasty. England got the Empire, ? Booyakasha
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Wiki : Augustus Bloody Romans. What did they ever do for us? From SparkNotes : Octavius Caesar Ocatavius Caesar is both a menacing adversary for Antony and a rigid representation of Roman law and order. He is not a two-dimensional villain, though, since his frustrations with the ever-neglectful Antony seem justified. When he complains […]
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OK. In my usual roundabout, weird way – I’ve finally reached the destination. Macedonia/Serbia I’m feeling a great need now to look into the Ptolemaic Pharoahs via…..?!? “We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.” […]
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I think of Viking when I see that. But then – I’m unashamedly biased :o) From NC : The identity of the “ancient” Chinese Mongols. References to the Mongol inhabitants of the Ancient China are unlikely to surprise anyone – the modern Mongols still live there, and the modern Mongolia borders with China. These […]
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Time and Tide etc… Quick History Reset and then I can get to the place I’m headed! “Ivan Samuilovich Greig (1776–1802), traveled to China but was never heard of again.” No bloody wonder he got lost, never heard of again. China was jam-packed with Tartars, Turks and Eastern Europeans!! From NC : […]
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Raphael’s The Meeting between Leo the Great and Attila depicts Pope Leo I, escorted by Saint Peter and Saint Paul, meeting with the Hun emperor outside Rome To get where I want to be, I’m being forced to Go West – Backwards. From China to Eastern Europe. From NC: The “ancient” Chinese Hungarians. The nation of the Huns was quite prominent […]
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Wikiblur : Callisto
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The Doom Fulfilled, 1888, Southampton City Art Gallery, part of a series of paintings revolving around Perseus, created by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones Back to where I started this morning. With Perseus. I’ve been thinking about him quite a bit over the past few days. If you know the myth then this will make sense. Use the highly […]
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Hidden History Research 