Thursday 16 June 2016

Roman remnants in 2D

Baelo Claudio is the Roman Archaeological site in Bolonia ... well excavated and interpreted with a most impressive museum building, sitting modernly, unpretentiously in the site ... a favourite for school trips at this time of year, since history lessons in the morning are followed by beach fun in the afternoon ...

The setting is superb ... views across to Africa and in antiquity the Phoenician fleet and Roman Galleys contesting Iberia ... and of course the gates to the Med ...  key to conquest since seafaring empires arose ...

There are hints of a three dimensional civilisation here, but as with most ancient Roman sites one has to imagine that from the mostly two dimensional remnants ... sitting in silence by the forum ... eyes closed, short circuiting time, one may go there ... and extrapolating from 2D to 3D one can foresee the possibilities in a multidimensional universe ....

The residents hereabouts two thousand years ago erected a temple to Isis ... Goddess numero uno and making a comeback in the Age of Aquarius. .. about time after all that murderous macho madness ... the meta script writers, employing dark humour to taunt us, create late stage capitalist barbarians, finance them in a desperate attempt to save earth destroying empire ... set them loose and hijack the name of the divine feminine ... Isis ...

Meanwhile, as Roman antiquity inevitably decayed, Andalusia entered its own dark age ...barbarian tribes ... until, across these waters a new civilisation, Islamic, makes its mark with wonderful architecture, mathematics (the number 0 without which where would we be?)... later ousted by the Christians and their gold plated cathedrals, thumbscrews and other instruments of shock and awe ... and so the spiral turns ...

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