Showing posts with label ancient history and myth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ancient history and myth. Show all posts
Friday, April 15, 2022

Rejected Opening to an Essay on Policy Regarding Ukraine

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  draft   How do you open an essay which one is totally unqualified to write?  Well, one approach is to just go completely and volcanicly ov...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria by Dennis

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draft, being rewritten In a continuing series on "materials to use to procrastinate"  we have the work by George Dennis who h...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

When All Roads Lead to Rome

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A friend has just finished a chapter of his life and is making a pilgrimage to Rome as a reward of sorts.  My friend has tastes that lean...
Sunday, January 6, 2013

The Shocking Truth about Roman Architecture in France

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[Revised 1/7/2012] This is the story of the first time I actually saw a Roman ruin. I think it is very funny for what it says about me, a...
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Monday, December 24, 2012

The American Tradition of Christmas and the Mystery of the Aluminum Christmas Tree

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In the spirit of the holidays, I set out to write a short essay on what I had learned about the origins of our Midwinter holiday and its t...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

Wm Jones and His Famous Paragraph

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[As an aside, I wonder why I feel some responsibility to tell this story, whether in my own words, or not. Surely something as important as ...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

The Cinderella Myth as Interpreted in the Style of Robert Graves

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Robert Graves is best known in this country as the author of I, Claudius,  but among his 140 or so other works, is The Greek Myths , which ...