And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, August 7, 2020
Roman Glass Cup with Medallions, From the Rhine Valley, C. 1st Half of the 4th Century AD
There is a story that Emperor Tiberius (42 BC - 37 AD), I think it was, went to dinner at the home of a very rich man. The man was so wealthy that he served wine in glass cups, a real expense at the time. The man had an eel pool as eels ere very much prized by Roman epicures. A servant accidentally broke one of the wine glasses. The rich man was so enraged that he ordered the servant tossed into the eel pool, a certain horrible death. Tiberius was outraged by the injustice, ordered the servant released, and proceeded to personally break each wine glass, one by one, as punishment. I assume this was not the flexible glass, invented about the same time, that Tiberius sought to destroy. Interesting story here: https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/unbreakable-story-lost-roman-invention-flexible-glass-009453
I like the Blue Glass- Neat! RVIS...Ancient Origins Articles are fiction masquerading as truth. Flexible glass = 100mpg carbuerator, hidden by the Oil Cartel and Rockefellers, or Illuminati... Enjoy their writing as crafty fiction. Like Lovecraft and R Howard! The nuance of reality because drop some real names/places, but topic content pure mythology. My annoyance is liking my science job, but tangent, deluded public stop in with their misunderstanding, and I have to TRY to explain away the delusion. It's having my time wasted by AO's bullshit. Some benefit from the truth thus I continue. Some don't. Chem trails and Flat Earth. Ugh. Don't drink the snake oil! ~JO:)
There is a story that Emperor Tiberius (42 BC - 37 AD), I think it was, went to dinner at the home of a very rich man. The man was so wealthy that he served wine in glass cups, a real expense at the time. The man had an eel pool as eels ere very much prized by Roman epicures. A servant accidentally broke one of the wine glasses. The rich man was so enraged that he ordered the servant tossed into the eel pool, a certain horrible death. Tiberius was outraged by the injustice, ordered the servant released, and proceeded to personally break each wine glass, one by one, as punishment. I assume this was not the flexible glass, invented about the same time, that Tiberius sought to destroy. Interesting story here: https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/unbreakable-story-lost-roman-invention-flexible-glass-009453
ReplyDeleteIt's not your enemy's skull, but it will do as a drinking cup.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a translucent chamber pot to me.
ReplyDeleteI like the Blue Glass- Neat!
ReplyDeleteRVIS...Ancient Origins Articles are fiction masquerading as truth. Flexible glass = 100mpg carbuerator, hidden by the Oil Cartel and Rockefellers, or Illuminati...
Enjoy their writing as crafty fiction. Like Lovecraft and R Howard! The nuance of reality because drop some real names/places, but topic content pure mythology.
My annoyance is liking my science job, but tangent, deluded public stop in with their misunderstanding, and I have to TRY to explain away the delusion. It's having my time wasted by AO's bullshit. Some benefit from the truth thus I continue. Some don't. Chem trails and Flat Earth. Ugh. Don't drink the snake oil!
~JO:)