Why is it, we might ask, that the “Odyssey” ultimately feels so consonant with the Old Testament in its depiction of the punishments of sensuality …
The Mantle of Eumaios
The Mantle of Eumaios (Reblog)
Category: ancient history
True England: Two Thousand Years in One Thousand Words — The Imaginative Conservative (Reblog)
Relishing a challenge, the following is a snapshot in a thousand words of the full panorama of two thousand years of English history. I am currently writing a series for… 1,221 more words
True England: Two Thousand Years in One Thousand Words — The Imaginative Conservative
Gog and Magog – The Guardians of the City of London — Stephen Liddell (Reblog)
This week saw the annual parade for the Lord Mayor of London which celebrated the 693rd incumbent . Every year as part of one of the oldest civic parades in the world you might catch a glimpse of two fearsome looking but generally kindly looking wicket giants. They are the traditional guardians of the City […]
Gog and Magog – The Guardians of the City of London — Stephen Liddell
The Secret Saint — davidavien (Reblog)
I was in Edinburgh, taking a break, when I remembered the story about the relics of Saint Andrew – the patron saint of Scotland being nearby and thougth I might as well take a look. In the New Testament Gospel according to John, Andrew was initially a disciple of John the Baptist and started to […]
The Secret Saint — davidavien
The Grave of Arthur? — Pendragonry (Reblog)
Rex Artorius inscription. Image: Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett Article first published in Pendragon, the Journal of the Pendragon Society XVI No 3 (1983), and here slightly revised and expanded Several Pendragon Society members over the past year [1982-3] brought to our attention news of two South Wales historians who have claimed to have discovered […]
The Grave of Arthur? — Pendragonry
*The stories of Arthur (and many other such histories) were considered fact until relatively recent times.
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