Being torn to shreds by ferocious carnivores sure sucks but I've really got to hand it to the architect. Finest coliseum I've ever seen.
sittenpretty
· 1 year ago
just fab,pick me up at the airport,ill be there in 9 hrs
Dumbo
· 1 year ago
All I have to say is, wow, what a tiny little boat. I wouldn'ta stood up if I was Ulysses. Some flying-fish might have come along and hit him in the face and knocked him in the water.
History would have been so different if that had happened. Deep, I know.
Bubbles
· 1 year ago
Really nice pictures.
I want your life. An American living in Paris. French wife. And weekend jaunts to places like this. I am totally jealous.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
I don't think the whole Bush stupidly saying he gave up golf for the troops, and then was caught playing golf got enough play. This from the man who wants to cut back on VA services for disabled veterans.
By the way, the Bu$h twins said they were going to give up drinking anything that didn't have alcohol in it "for the troops" of course.
Barbara "Babs" Bush said she was going to give up dieting "for the troops."
jr
· 1 year ago
Chris' vacation posts rule
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Wonderful!
apikoros
· 1 year ago
On the first mosaic, two important thing you may not see at first...
there are eight pair of oars on that ship... but no oarsmen depicted. Slaves never exist in artistic representation unless to elevate the master.
The steering board (starboard) is on the port (left) side of the ship! I think this is licenze, as I think that even the Romans adhered to the port/left - starboard/right model. At the same time, Romans notoriously hatewd the sea, so the artist may not have known.
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History would have been so different if that had happened. Deep, I know.
I want your life. An American living in Paris. French wife. And weekend jaunts to places like this. I am totally jealous.
By the way, the Bu$h twins said they were going to give up drinking anything that didn't have alcohol in it "for the troops" of course.
Barbara "Babs" Bush said she was going to give up dieting "for the troops."
there are eight pair of oars on that ship... but no oarsmen depicted. Slaves never exist in artistic representation unless to elevate the master.
The steering board (starboard) is on the port (left) side of the ship! I think this is licenze, as I think that even the Romans adhered to the port/left - starboard/right model. At the same time, Romans notoriously hatewd the sea, so the artist may not have known.