View attachment 1506890Spartacus rebellion, also known as the Third Servile War, was a legion of rebel slaves that initially escaped from a Capuan gladiatorial school and grew into the rebel army that the Roman legions commanded by Crassus finally annihilated in 73 BC. In a modern novel written by Howard Fast, Spartacus’s lover, Varinia dies when a legion rapes her.
View attachment 1506887Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl - Ahasuerus at the End of the World (1888) The painting is an oil on canvas depicting the
Wandering Jew, also called “
Ahasuerus,” as he was cursed to do for laughing at Christ during his crucifixion.
View attachment 1506888George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, 1478. Malmsey Wine was one of the three major wines exported from Greece in medieval times. It is alleged that when Edward IV of England convicted his brother, George Plantagenet, of high treason, his private execution consisted of being “drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine,” which is dramatised in Shakespeare’s Richard III.
View attachment 1506889Keep the bastards honest.