The Archaic Allegory

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Presenting The Archaic Allegory.

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Images from a 2017 exhibition by Emma McEvoy. The set is from the Namibian town of Kolmanskop which was once settled by the Germans in their quest for diamond mines, that now stands abandoned once the diamond reserves were all exhausted.

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Arundhati Roy

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From @/create.repeat—substack.

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Kids these days...

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Odysseus, as painted by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein.

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They obliged, adding more stones until his chest was crushed. After two days of excruciating pain, Corey succumbed, never having uttered a single word of confession.

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The shivering last words of a dying man. A Thread:

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They asked him one last time to confess. Corey, in his final act of defiance, smiled and screamed: "More weight!"

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"Warrior," by Salvador Dali, 1982.

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From "The Coronation of Napoleon"

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During the crusades, King Richard the lionheart once sent Saladin a message saying he was ready to duel him personally to decide the fate of Jerusalem.

Saladin sent back a gift of ice and snow to quench Richard’s thirst in the desert heat, subtly mocking Richard's bravado.

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Weird but Roman.

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3/ Augustus also targeted celibacy. Unmarried men over 25 and women over 20 faced penalties, including being barred from receiving inheritances. There was even a bachelor tax to encourage marriage and procreation among the elite.

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13/ The Lex Antonia de Termessibus, an obscure and rarely mentioned law, dictated that the gates of the town of Termessus should always remain open as a gesture of friendship with Rome.