I am not referring to interpretations of the Bible, but to editing or printing errors that changed the meaning of the text, giving it a funny or blasphemous twist, depending on how you look at it. Many of these erroneous edits They have become a collectors item. The blasphemous comma :In several
Solon (638 BC – 558 BC) was an Athenian poet, reformer and legislator, one of the seven sages of Greece. He ruled in a time of serious social conflicts resulting from an extreme concentration of wealth and political power in the hands of the eupatriates , noble landowners from the Attica region.
In 526 BC, after the death of his father, the pharaoh Ahmose II , rise to the throne of Egypt Psammetichus III . He inherits a prosperous kingdom but with a latent threat... the Persian Empire . Cambises II , king of Persia of the Achaemenid dynasty, continued the expansion of the empire started
Our archenemy today could be a great tribal chief of the Picts or just the inventiveness of Publius Cornelius Tacitus , historian, politician and son-in-law of Agricola , the governor of Britannia who led the legions to the ends of the island. Little is known of his life, but his alleged speech prio
Our archenemy today was neither a Germanic tribal warlord nor a Hellenistic wren, but a simple barbarian – an auxiliary turned slave – whose fearless fight for freedom surpassed his time and served as an inspiration for hundreds of generations to become an icon of modernity. fight against oppression
Sick leave, due to temporary incapacity, costs the State some 7,000 million euros a year, if we add to this that many companies are hiring private detectives to unmask cases of fraud, it is clear that it is a very delicate and expensive issue. How did they do it in ancient Egypt? We will focus, du
Nineteenth installment of “Archienemies of Rome “. Collaboration of Gabriel Castelló. Our archenemy of today is one of the least known barbarians, but not for that reason worth remembering his deeds, which were many and against a Roman Empire in its moment of maximum splendor. Diurpaneo he was a
Locris Sheepskin , 7th century BC, he was one of the first Greek legislators who today, unfortunately, would have no place in politics. If politics were a scale on which RESPONSIBILITY was weighed , we could put all the politicians of the last century on one side and Zaleuco on the other, and the ba
Gaius Valerius Catullus (1st century BC) was a Roman poet of the Republican era. The preserved works of Catullus are 116 poems, in which lyrical poems, love poems, others addressed to friends or enemies, ingenious improvisations, anecdotes, satires and... a poem that nobody dared to translate in
I suppose that many of you have seen bags of water, or even CDs, hung on many terraces and that have the mission of warding off flies. The most coherent explanation, that I have found, is that when they see their reflection with an enormous size they get scared and leave (?). And since no one was fr
We do not know exactly what year Frigiterno was born , whose original name in Goth, Frithugarnis , means “Wishing Peace ”. Leader of the Thervingi, his name appears in history when he petitioned the emperor Valens that his people might settle on the Roman side of the Danube. The question is obviou
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , was emperor of the Roman Empire between October 13, 54 and June 9, 68, last emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. He has gone down in history for his atrocities (such as murdering his mother and wives), his eccentricities and for being responsible for the
In the late spring of 53 BC, a huge Roman army commanded byMarcus Licinius Crassus , the richest and most arrogant man in Rome, triumvir Along with Caesar and Pompey and governor of Syria in that year, he entered Parthian territory ready to achieve in the confines of Asia the honor and glory that h
Twenty-first installment of “Archienemies of Rome “. Collaboration of Gabriel Castelló. Our new archenemy is a complete unknown, but his undeniable military ability led to one of the greatest military disasters of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC. One of the consequences of the Battle of C
Our archenemy today is one of the Asian despots deliberately ignored by the classical sources. His father was the one who created a new Empire that, under his iron hand, managed to displace the Parthians and shake Rome itself. During his mandate there were three turning points that would mark the fu
A few years ago «Second Love arrived in Spain «, a social network for infidels whose slogan read «life is short; treat yourself to a Second Love «. To justify this network, which according to them does not encourage infidelity, they look at the statistics:34% of married men and 25% of married women
To the question that we have all been asked at some time when we were children, what do you want to be when you grow up? In my day, the answer was firefighter or soccer player. If when your child is asked this question they answer:ALIPILARIUS, I advise you to try to get that idea out of his hea
Wagon wheel It was (since it was not yet filmed) the year M.A.C (Way Before Christ) when the young Manuel Cro-Magnon was running (also) through the thick French steppes eager to make a great discovery. The Magnon family has always been populated by great personalities of the prehistoric intellectua
Whether from comics, cartoons, video games or movies, almost everyone knows the superhero Iron Man (the iron Man). Well, the first Iron Man in history, or rather the Iron Hand, was the Roman Marcus Sergius . Marcus Sergius, great-grandfather of Lucius Sergius Catilina (Catilina) , was a general of
Eighteenth installment of “Archienemies de Roma “. Collaboration of Gabriel Castelló. Our archenemy today was one of the last Hellenistic kings to face the incipient power of a republic of shepherds and farmers that was inexorably becoming the hegemonic state of the Mediterranean. Philip Philip
The German occupation of our Greece was not just cruel, but murderous. The Germans and their Italian and Bulgarian allies committed horrific war crimes against the Greeks, to whom they appeared – otherwise – as “friends” who attacked Greece to “drive out the English and the pro-British regime”.
Constantinos Greitzas Palaiologos was one of the most heroic, but relatively unknown figures of the early late Byzantine period. He came from the imperial family of the Paleologues and had repeatedly shown his courage and bravery. In 1458 he was stationed as a guard on the Acropolis of Athens and fo
The journalist and writer Ramón Pérez de Ayala said that when the scam is huge it already takes a decent name. Name that in the case of the ruse carried out by the Scotsman Gregor MacGregor took the name of Kingdom of Poyais , a fictitious country that never existed and with which he managed to tric
Whether you call it carnival, carnival or Alemannic carnival. I must confess to you right at the beginning:I hate all of it. The stupid costumes, the annoying carnival parade, the horrible music (and I say that as someone who is quite inclined to pop music) ... The fifth season is anathema to me and