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I just store my posts over at Substack here. Though it’s unlikely that I write anything that is offensive enough for me to lose access to them, it’s still nice to have a copy.
Two Latin Epigrams of Germanicus
Original Here Introduction The Battle of Teutoburg Forest (9 AD) belongs to a small number of ancient battles that still hold the popular imagination. The image of legionaries being surrounded by Germanic forests, the great carnage that followed and the elderly Augustus banging his head shouting “Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions”1 are familiar to any Roman history enthusiast. The subsequent Roman campaigns by Germanicus (the adopted son of Tiberius and presumed heir to the …
Diabolis Similiores quam hominibus
Original Here China Illustrata of Athanasius Kircher (1667 CE) is , as its quite descriptive title shows1 , a work in Latin describing various facets of China , describing its geography, religion, monuments and so on. It was quite popular in its day with translations into Dutch, English and French being produced within a decade of its publication. Although the title includes only China ( and the work indeed focuses on China generally), there are also sections on other peoples of Asia and is …