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.
Cleopatra lived near to the time of Christ (as evidenced by the date) when Rome reigned supreme. But until you brought it up, I hadn't connected the dots in terms of timeline.
ReplyDeleteIt's a really interesting perspective. As Larry says, we know the times but never think of it in those terms.
ReplyDeleteThe movie "Gone With The Wind" is older now than the Civil War was when the movie was made.
ReplyDeleteMakes you wonder why the Egyptian civilization collapsed. Did they invent cellphones?
ReplyDeleteThe ObamaPhones did it... ;^)
DeleteTexting hieroglyphics crashed the system due to heavy data use, and by then the Alien I.T. Dept. had left...society followed suit shortly thereafter.
DeleteAdds some perspective to the recent hubbub about Gal Godot playing Cleopatra. In Cleopatra's day, Egyptians were not Arabs. The Arabs showed up hundreds of years later and took control of the old Egyptian society. Cleopatra was of Greek origin, as the Greeks ruled Egypt at that time.
ReplyDeleteEgyptians are STILL not arabs
ReplyDeleteThe majority of Egyptians are Muslim and lots Coptic by religious beliefs, but they are not Arabs by cultural designation.
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