“Fog everywhere. Fog upstream of the river, where it flows between green islets and meadows, fog downstream of the river where it unfolds among the alongside ships and the pollution of the shores of a noble (and dirty) city. The tirade stretched over several paragraphs to describe, in the novel The
Zenobia (from Zeus and Bios) is a highly enigmatic personality of late antiquity. He was born in 240 AD. She herself claimed to be a descendant of Cleopatra of Egypt and therefore had roots from the Ptolemies. This information is also mentioned in Augusta History. He was fluent in Greek, Aramaic and
Life of Orientalism (1) Lawrence Alma-Tadema, (2) Jean-Francois Portaels Orientalism is an exclusively European phenomenon, a representation of the Orient in modern European art. This artistic movement involves the use of subjects and motifs that have drawn inspiration from literature, archite
In ancient Egypt, the pharaohs were considered gods incarnate. Even after their death, they should continue to watch over their people from the afterlife - their subjects built them monumental buildings for this purpose. Sole rulers of Egypt A pharaohs first duty was to enforce justice among his p