More specifically concerning: brutality
Sed Vitae Caesaris
29 January 2003, around 11.09.
Coin depicting the Emperor Augustus 1 from A Visual Compendium of Roman Emperors. At last reading Ronald Syme’s famous book, The Roman Revolution (Oxford, 1939), a history of the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the principate. It begins slowly, with a grim overview of the career of C. Julius Caesar Octavianus […]
An unusual occurence (2)
23 September 2003, around 8.34.
Dr. Livingstone, I presume.
in the workplace
9 April 2008, around 19.54.
We bicycled four miles through the strange weather of a Portland spring (snow, hail, rain, and sunshine, all in the span of two or three blocks) to see a movie about torture. 1 As a movie, I don’t have much to say about it; if the topic interests you, or if the current state of […]