Gareth Harneyさんのイラストまとめ

“Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from "The Brothers Karamazov"

4) We can't know how people reacted to the total eclipse but it's likely that some watched in awe, some cried in fear, some called out in prayer or made hasty offerings to the angered gods. Devoted pagans may have blamed the Emperor Constantine who was...

Minerva, Goddess of Wisdom - hand coloured folio print from “Mythology” (1676) by Joachim von Sandrart and Richard Collin.

It is thought that even though the harvesting machine worked well, its use never fully caught on due to the cheapness of slave labour. Farming technology like this would therefore be lost to history until the Agricultural Revolution. #economics

3/3) Almost like the shells of World War I, Josephus describes the psychological trauma caused by the unending "terrifying shriek of incoming Roman missiles" and the "constant thud of dead bodies as they fell one after another from the ramparts."

Josephus, The Jewish War, 3

8) The early Christian writer, St. Jerome recounts that the Emperor Constantine made a special trip from Constantinople (modern Istanbul) to Antioch, across the entirety of modern Turkey, to view the ancient bones of a "satyr" that had been discovered in a salt-mine!

@bankecon1 I had to google but remembered it instantly when I saw it!

Don't look into her eyes! Spectacular opus-sectile mosaic of the Gorgon Medusa covering the entire orchestra of Kibyra Roman theatre in south-west Turkey - unearthed in 2009, the mosaic is still in-situ, 11m across and 95% intact. #Roman #Archaeology #Art #Turkey

4) Julia lived at Salona with her father Julius and her mother Statia, who both adored their young daughter. The proud parents even had enough wealth to buy Julia some jewellery, like bracelets and necklaces, to show that she was loved and from a successful family...

7) "Sometimes I change my routine - if I have spent longer than usual studying then I go out riding on horseback, which acts as my exercise but saves time. Some of the day is given over to friends visiting from nearby towns, which can be a welcome interruption.."