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Marcus Aurelius

The famous statue of Marcus Aurelius was spared only because he was
mistaken for Constantine, the first Christian emperor
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Dinesh said:

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18 months ago ( translate )

Dinesh said:

Terms such as ‘mad’, ' laughable,’, ‘loathsome,’ ‘disgusting’, ‘abhorrent,’, ‘wicked’, and ‘ignorant’ were used to legitimize the zeal with which the Christians condemned to destruction of thousands of statues. If the demolition of a huge statue proved too difficult, ground burial was recommended. The decimation that Western art suffered during those fanatical and puritanical years of Christian righteousness was immense. The proof is that the only statue that survived the great campaign of destruction that took place inRome was that of Marcus Aurelious, which the Christians erroneously took as the depiction of Constantine. Page 203

KNOW THYSELF
18 months ago

Dinesh said:

A great forest, bristling with dangers and the occasional gleam of treasure: that is how the territories of Eastern Europe must have appeared to the average Roman in the time of the emperor Marcus Aurelius. To them, the lands north of the imperial frontiers were largely a mystery. Marcus himself traveled north of the Danube in A.D. 170 to fight a war against a confederation of barbarian tribes. He began writing his ‘Meditations’ there, camped out with his soldiers by the bank of River Hron, in what is now Slovakia. This work, a classic of Stoic philosophy, might be the first piece of literature written in Eastern Europe. . . . Page 1

GOODBYE, EASTERN EUROPE
4 weeks ago
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