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Naturalism

The Zhuangzi and the Important Lesson of Po Lo

Polo Player, China, Tang Dynasty c. 7th Century (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

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Fourth Eclogue

Did Roman Poet Virgil Prophesy the Birth of Christ?

Samuel Palmers Pencil drawing of Eclogue IV: Thy Very Cradle Quickens (1876) (Source: wikipedia 

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panpsychism

The Anima Mundi: Does The World Have A Soul?

In the 21st century, the dominant view of the world and universe is that it is a lifeless material object,

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Old Man of The Mountain

When King Louis IX encountered the Real Assassin’s Creed and the Old Man of the Mountain

St Louis welcomes the envoys of The Old Man of the Mountain by Rouget, 1819 (Source: Wikipedia)

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Colossus of Rhodes

The Colossus of Rhodes: Still a Wonder to Behold?

The Colossus of Rhodes by Salvador Dali (1954) (Source: Wikipedia) 

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Shakespeare

Beware! The Ides of March are come again…but will you take heed?

Soothsayer warning Caesar of the Ides of March by Sir John Gilbert (Source: Wikimedia Commons) ‘Beware the Ides of March’

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Ancient Voyages

Ohthere: King Alfred’s Viking Guest from beyond the Arctic Circle

Ohthere’s Voyages (Source) It was the year 890 AD, and a windswept seafarer arrived at the court of the Anglo-Saxon

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Stoicism

What can Seneca teach us about the one possession that can never be taken away?

(Pictures: The Dying Seneca by Peter Paul Rubens, Source: (Wikimedia Commons) and On the Shortness of Life by Penguin Books.    Recently I delved

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Byzantine Empire

How the Plague of Justinian puts current events in a healthy perspective

Plague in an Ancient City (Source: Wikimedia Commons) When we are living through a difficult period (such as an outbreak

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Livy

How a humiliating Roman defeat led to the saying: To pass under the yoke

Passing under the yoke at the Battle of the Caudine Forks (Source: Wikimedia Commons) To pass under the yoke…where does

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