Honor Cargill-Martin
@HonorCargillM
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Classicist & Author. 'MESSALINA' out now with @HoZ_Books. Rep @georginacapel.
London
Joined April 2021
I wrote about Musk, Bannon, and Anton’s distinctly Roman take on Ancient Rome for @nytopinion .
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Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is based on common misconceptions.
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RT @OptimoPrincipi: A tiny (48 mm) Greek owl carved in purple fluorite. The wise owl was the symbol of the goddess Athena and by extension….
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RT @OptimoPrincipi: An ancient marble head of a classical goddess, defaced and carved with a Christian cross around the year 500 AD, Archae….
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I discuss these questions in more depth in my latest piece: .
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How did this decline come about? And could it ever be prevented?.
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When a state becomes sufficiently broken, it is overthrown and replaced by the next type of constitution in the cycle.
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Over time any good form of government will degenerate into a corrupt equivalent. So monarchy becomes tyranny; aristocracy becomes oligarchy; and democracy becomes mob-rule.
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Greek and Roman thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, and Cicero proposed that constitutions, like people, have natural life spans.
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Are all democracies destined to die? Ancient thinkers certainly thought so….
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RT @TraffordLj: I see a lot of people saying 'what use is Latin?'.The answer is simple: You still can't easily find English translations of….
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Happy New Year to everyone except the ancient Roman emperor Commodus (on Gladiator I infamy).
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It’s all in celebration of the god Saturn who was thought to have ruled over a long lost Golden Age of ease, bounty, and prosperity. He appears here in a fresco from Pompeii, with his characteristic scythe, muffled up in a winter cloak and looking quite shocked by the cold.
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Io Saturnalia! . Ancient Rome’s seven day winter festival - the Saturnalia - begins today. A time for gift-giving, merriment, and the blurring of normal social boundaries.
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RT @PP_Rubens: Young woman in profile, painted around 1460 by Paolo Uccello of Florence. Today is his day.
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RT @PP_Rubens: Princess is very sad that over-eager Saint George has massacred her sweet pet dragon. She had it on a leash! Painted in 1470….
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This is out in the US today and I cannot adequately express how wonderfully shiny the sprayed edges are - I’m afraid you’ll just have to order it for yourself and see!.
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This Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition includes bonus backmatter featuring a bespoke character glossary, and gilded foil edges.Written by “the new Mary Beard,” classicist Honor Cargill-Martin flips...
I can’t quite believe that there is going to be a Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition of ‘She Speaks’ with extra content and shiny foil sprayed edges i.e. my childhood dream!. It’s a limited edition and it’s available to preorder now
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RT @DA_Childrens: Happy Publication Day to THE SIX QUEENS OF HENRY THE VIII 🎉Written by @HonorCargillM & illustrated by Jaimee Andrews. Get….
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RT @HachetteKids: Happy publication day to our wonderful authors and illustrators who have books hitting the shelves today! 📚. You'll find….
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