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Autumn is here. And winter is coming. <\/p>Autumn is here. And winter is coming. <\/p>
The fresco to the left is the cover jacket illustration for Why we’re all Romans<\/a>, a new cultural history which attempts to argue for the unique debts of Western civilization to Rome (in particular as a mediator of the wisdom of the Greeks and Hebrews). If you’re on the culturally conservative side it might be of some interest, it sports endorsements from a Fellow at the Hoover Institute and E. Christian Kopff<\/a>. The fresco is from Pompeii<\/a>, explaining its good state of preservation and present day fame and ubiquity. The man’s name is Terentius Neo, a wealthy merchant or magistrate apparently. The woman is presumed to be his wife. A strange question to throw out: am the only one who thinks that he resembles Laurence Fishburne<\/a>? The fresco is used a lot because of its quality and prior fame, but I always start thinking of something ludicrous like The Matrix<\/i> when I see it.<\/p> Autumn is here. And winter is coming. The fresco to the left is the cover jacket illustration for Why we’re all Romans, a new cultural history which attempts to argue for the unique debts of Western civilization to Rome (in … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/images.buddytv.com\/articles\/movies\/profiles\/laurence-fishburne.jpg\")