THE ALUZINNU THE BABYLONIAN FOOL
We are often tempted to think that the ancients only made wars and atrocious vendettas, family feuds and other sad and serious things but it never occurred to us that even those peoples knew how to have fun and laugh. This state of things is definitely the fault of historians, focused on political and military…
THE IMPORTANCE OF SORCERIES AMONG THE HITTITES
There are traditions that reside in the mists of time of every people that determine the importance of characters and trades that otherwise would have no sense of existing nor would they deserve to be remembered. Some situations such as illnesses, quarrels and existential pains are present with various distinctive features in every people but…
THE LEGEND OF ROMULUS AND REMO
From the legendary arrival of Aeneas in Lazio, taking a few steps further, or rather a few following generations, not satisfied with the previous legends, we come across the most famous legend, that of Romulus and Remus which if it had not been invented, and maybe it is so , we would not enjoy the…
THE LEGEND OF ENEA IN LAZIO
We have already had the opportunity to speak of the brave Aeneas who, fleeing from Troy, lands in Italy. Here at this point we can focus on the legend of Aeneas in Italy. We say legend to allow us to tell freely but I would not discard a priori that much of what we are…
ALONG THE TEVERE RIVER BEFORE ROME
It is said that after a long wandering around the Mediterranean, we find on the banks of the Tiber, the Trojan hero Aeneas, who escaped the defeat at home and landed in this area after several hardships. But, despite not knowing that things went this way, in any case, before him, in that area there…
THE FEAST OF THE PALILIE
April 21, 753 BC, is remembered as the date in which Rome was born but in reality, in those places it was the date of the feast of the Palilie. That the birth of Rome is concomitant with a party, indeed perhaps propitiated by it, should not surprise us, on the other hand, in those…
THE DIVINE BRIDES OF AMON
In Egypt, especially in Thebes, around 760 BC. begins a tradition that will last a few centuries and that highlights the emancipation of women, especially if the pharaoh’s wives or sisters, because the others were always and in any case slaves and submissives. The title of Divine Spouse of Amon was invented for these illustrious…
ITALY IS RIGHT
Finally! Finally we begin to take a look at yearnings for life and curious ideas, even from our home, which until then had remained somewhat silent, sleepy, a spectator of the lively peoples who made their deeds talk about the world. Apart from the Etruscans, which we have already given ample space previously, other peoples…
THE PERIOD OF THE HUNDRED SCHOOLS
We speak of the period of the hundred schools relative to the period corresponding to the decline of the western Zhou dynasty, in China, and the advent of a new era with the eastern Zhou dynasty; we pass, in plain language and understandable to all, from a clear, certain situation to an institutional political chaos.…
THE ANCIENT WORLD WAITING FOR THE FIRST OLYMPICS
The beginning of the eighth century BC does not reserve any particular narrative stimuli worthy of being transferred to our adventure, in fact, in the first decades unfair and exuberant characters appear, all too normal. Just so that you may have knowledge and pity, we note some “illustrious” names, without fame and without praise that…
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