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NewsWe are fortunate to have this contribution from Arputhrani Sengupta, associate professor of art history at the National Museum Institute, New Delhi (India): Manimekalai: Dancer with Magic Bowl This is a fine example of the magical practises of the panhellenic world in the first two centuries of this era and from the perspective of Greco-India. We now have both parts of 'The Gospels According to Hadrian': 1.The Gospels According to Hadrian (part one) They compose a groundbreaking revision for the second century of this era, describing how imperial Roman authority is used to shape power: the economic, political and religious systems of the Greco-Roman world, including its dominions of Egypt and Palestine. |
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- 26 July 2010 : The Gospels According to Hadrian, Part III: The Aelian Canon and the Main Hand of God (No Comments)
Archaeologist photographed unearthing a statue of the Emperor Hadrian juxtaposed with an image of the crowning piece among several neo-Surealist paintings executed by Cadiz artist Manuel Caballero on the theme [More...]
- 20 July 2010 : Manimekalai: Dancer with Magic Bowl (No Comments)
Manimekalai Dancer with Magic Bowl Narrative in Tamil Epic (Second Century AD) Arputhrani Sengupta (Associate Professor, Dept. of History of Art, National Museum Institute, New Delhi, India) [BIO] ABSTRACT The question for [More...]
- 20 July 2010 : The Gospels of Hadrian Part II: Death on the Nile (No Comments)
The death of Antinous by drowning in the sacred waters of the Nile was pregnant with religious significance for a very large cross-section of the culture within which the event [More...]
- 11 July 2010 : The God-Idea of the Ancients Or Sex In Religion (No Comments)
In The Gospels According to Hadrian (part one), Lancelotto began: As an intellectual product of the twentieth century, I am often haunted by the long shadows cast in the [More...]
- 26 June 2010 : The Gospels According to Hadrian (part one) (2 Comments)
As an intellectual product of the twentieth century, I am often haunted by the long shadows cast in the gloaming of the Victorian age prior to the outbreak of WWI [More...]
- 14 June 2010 : The Royal Library of Alexandria in the first century (2 Comments)
Inscription regarding Tiberius Claudius Babillus of Rome confirming that the Library of Alexandria existed in the first century CE. Forschungen in Ephesos, Vol. III, Vienna 1923, p.128. The Royal Library [More...]
- 12 June 2010 : Josephus as a source: difficult and dangerous (No Comments)
Josephus is the most important source for the first century, yet treating him is difficult and dangerous: we don't know who he is; an active participant in the events he [More...]
- 10 June 2010 : The Loss of Reason (No Comments)
I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties [More...]
- 10 June 2010 : Jesus son of Sapphias (1 Comment)
Above the surface over their heads was what looked like a throne made of blue sapphire. And high above this throne was a figure whose appearance was like that of [More...]
- 9 June 2010 : Stumbling along the trail of the past (2 Comments)
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past... ~ Winston Churchill From where am I coming, where are we now and what are we trying to achieve [More...]
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