5) Cicero & The Sibylline Oracles

Friday, 12 July 2019, 8:16.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Wiki : Marcus Tullius Cicero

3) Yaropolk I of Kiev & The Sibylline Oracles

Friday, 12 July 2019, 7:44.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The Murder of Yaropolk – Yaropolk trusted Blud and his brother’s promises of peace and left for Vladimir’s headquarters, where he would be killed in an ambush by two Varangians. Wiki : Yaropolk I of Kiev

2) St Vladimir & The Sibylline Oracles

Friday, 12 July 2019, 7:35.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Vladimir’s effigy on one of his coins. He is crowned in the Byzantine style, holding a cross-mounted staff in one hand and holding a Khazar-inspired trident in the other. Wiki : Vladimir the Great

1) Caelius Vibenna & The Sibylline Oracles

Friday, 12 July 2019, 7:15.Reading time 2 minutes.

The image is a Fresco in the François Tomb: Liberation of Caelius Vibenna, from left to right: Caile Vibenna, Mastarna, Larth Ultes, Laris Papathnas Velznach, Pesna Aremsnas Sveamach, Rasce, Venthikau and Aule Vibenna, right: Marce Camitlnas and Cnaeve Tarchunies Rumach. From Wiki : Caelius Vibenna Caelius Vibenna, (Etruscan Caile Vipina, was a noble Etruscan who lived c.750 BCE (but […]

Of the Erythraean Sibyl

Friday, 12 July 2019, 6:57.Reading time 10 minutes.

“In Christian iconography the Erythraean Sibyl is credited with prophesying the coming of the Redeemer, which prophesy was in the form of an acrostic whose initial letters spelled out “ΙΗΣΌΎΣ ΧΡΕΙΣΤΟΣ ΘΕΟΥ ΎΊΟΣ ΣΩΤΗΡ ΣΤΑΎΡΟΣ” (“Jesus Christ, God’s Son, Savior, Cross). Examples were in medieval paintings in Salisbury cathedral, and others are shown in the illustrations on […]

Albrecht Durer’s Magic Square

Thursday, 11 July 2019, 13:16.Reading time 83 minutes.

A lot of this goes over my head. I’m not an astrologer. But I know someone who will understand this much better than me (!) Interesting, nonetheless. Zodiac Johann Kleberger. Astronomy and Magic in the Picture of Dürer A.V. Lantratov 1. The ambiguity of reading the old dates. “The Magic Square” by Albrecht Durer The […]

A Question and a Challenge

Thursday, 11 July 2019, 12:46.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Am I the only person around this faf social media “world” TODAY with the balls (Ironic!) to address, talk about, investigate, publicise etc etc … the True Truth about Tartaria? Just saying :o)

Commodus

Sunday, 7 July 2019, 8:39.Reading time 50 minutes.

Historia Augusta The Life of Commodus 1 1 The ancestry of Commodus Antoninus has been sufficiently discussed in the life of Marcus Antoninus. As for Commodus himself, he was born, with his twin brother Antoninus, ( a subject that I’ve not touch on yet is the fact that Andronicus I Comnenus and his brother, John, were […]

Castel Sant’Angelo

Saturday, 6 July 2019, 4:08.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Otherwise known as The Mausoleum of Hadrian, has four famous tombs. Four famous Caesars. Hadrian, Luicius Verus, (father) Luicius Verus, (son) and Commodus. Confusing, Crazy history books! Its also famous as the prison which held, amongst others, Giordano Bruno and Alessandro Cagliostro. Andronicus I Comnenus was probably buried in Egypt with the rest of his […]

From The Life of Hadrian

Friday, 5 July 2019, 9:15.Reading time 3 minutes.

From The Life of Hadrian : “After this he travelled to Spain and spent the winter at Tarragona, (The image above is Tarragona, Spain. G.B.) and here he restored at his own expense the temple of Augustus. To this place, too, he called all the inhabitants of Spain for a general meeting, and when […]

Before the Rooster Crows…?

Friday, 5 July 2019, 4:28.Reading time 2 minutes.

From Historia Augusta : The Life of Lucius Verus “One such banquet, indeed, became very notorious. This was the first banquet, it is said, at which couches were placed for twelve, although there is a very well-known saying about the proper number of those present at a banquet that “seven make a dinner, nine […]

Aelius Spartianus : The Life of Hadrian

Thursday, 4 July 2019, 11:19.Reading time 75 minutes.

All italics are mine. I’ve always wanted to say that :o) This is definitely some one else’s story!! Ancient History Sourcebook: Aelius Spartianus: The Life of Hadrian The original home of the family of the Emperor Hadrian was Picenum, the later, Spain; for Hadrian himself relates in his autobiography that his forefathers came from Hadria, […]

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