Awesome cover design. If you are interested in learning about more about the history of democracy, I suggest reading “What's Wrong with Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship”
In decades/centuries to come, historians will write and read about the decline and fall of the American empire, citing the election of 2024 as the turning point.
Years ago I found this set in a secondhand book shop and one of my biggest regrets at the time was passing it over for first and second edition Kiplings which were absurdly cheap.
But I knew that I would regret not buying the Kipling set if I did and I have had many years of enjoyment from them
Stunning. I regret not collecting years ago. Dream home would contain library so tall requires ladder and so deep that stretches my knowledge with esch binder.
I do. The elephant (Ganesh with a lotus) is the symbol of wisdom and foresight and the swastika was/is a Hindu good luck symbol. Lockwood Kipling, his father, was a scholar of Indian art, so Rudyard grew up with the symbology. When the Nazis usurped the swastika, Kipling removed it from his books.
Although, the right handed Hindu “svastika” (& svaustika) is a lateral image of Hitler’s creation. Rather, Hitler adopted the Hindu svastika by reversing it to represent Nazism!
To those who point to the last volume and claim it to describe the US, I disagree. The Roman Republic succumbed to corruption and threw away democracy before volume 1.
Died today 450AD Galla Placidia. Daughter of the Roman emperor Theodosius I, was regent to Valentinian III from 423 until his majority in 437, and a major force in Roman politics for most of her life. Via @romanhistory1.bsky.social
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Third-century Roman plate and bust of Emperor Hadrian alleged to have links to man convicted of illegal dealing https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024... Via
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"The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful." - Edward Gibbon (1776)(Chapter II)
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But I knew that I would regret not buying the Kipling set if I did and I have had many years of enjoyment from them
Third-century Roman plate and bust of Emperor Hadrian alleged to have links to man convicted of illegal dealing https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024... Via
@romanhistory1.bsky.social
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(... and spare me your sparkling wit - I know what a critique is... I'm wondering what critique you are referring to.)
"The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful." - Edward Gibbon (1776)(Chapter II)