From One Seated Boxer To Another.
Seated boxer (c.100-50 BC. Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.) Far be it for me to compare myself to one of the greatest of all Greek sculptures but looking again at the powerful image of the Seated Boxer – I was lucky…
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Some talk of Alexander……
Alexander the Great (280 BC. Archaeological Museum of Pella, Greece) Alexander The Great was a famous general who lead his armies from Iraq to over the Khyber Pass. He had genuine skill as a military tactician but was said to…
Summertime and we must all make sacrifices to the Sun God.
Apollo di Belvedere (Roman copy of Greek original, Vatican museum, Rome) I wonder if the Vegetarian Society would forgive me if I sacrificed a bullock on an altar to the sun god Apollo. One big bullock is a small price…
Footballers’ tantrums more or less in the style of Spartacus – or maybe not.
Spartacus by Denis Foyatier (1793-1863) – Louvre, Paris. “Spartacus, a Thracian prince, made Roman slave, was condemned to the lowly status of gladiator. Having escaped from prison, he raised an army of malcontents, and struck terror right into heart of…
Ronnie Lee Gardner’s death was no less barbaric for being sanitised.
I know Ronnie Lee Gardner was a convicted and confessed murderer. I know too that it was possible to see how someone with his emotional and mental history could have committed his crimes twenty-five years ago. I know that he…
Summertime and I’m off on my holidays.
Hot Dayby wolfiewolfgang I am off on my holidays for couple of weeks where I plan to do not a lot in the sun so you will have to live without this blog until I get back. This is the…
Will I survive sitting on a beach in Greece?
I have never done it before and I don’t know what it will be like but here goes. Yes, I am finally going on a holiday where there will not be much to do except sit in the sun, sit…
Dull days won’t pull me down.
So just look at it! The view from my study window. The prehistoric mound is lush with moisture, drizzly rain acts as a miserable screen to what should be a beautiful English Spring day and a solitary crow is flying…
£500,000 to meet Prince Andrew? You must be kidding!
Those royal brides! What are they like! Well, I mean Sarah Ferguson of course, the so-called Duchess of York. I don’t mean Diana who is now in Heaven with Mother Theresa, enough has been said about her already or Sophie,…
Whatever Love Is…….
Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga It was one of those phrases that still chills me when I think of it. That now infamous interview that Prince Charles gave with the then Lady Diana Spenser on the announcement of their engagement…