{"id":3655,"date":"2010-12-29T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3655"},"modified":"2010-12-29T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T17:11:00","slug":"ancient-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3655","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Days&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Took the children, who had a fistful of gift cards, to <strong>Barnes &amp; Noble&#8217;s<\/strong> yesterday and picked up a couple of books for myself:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/ebooks-imgs.connect.com\/product\/400\/000\/000\/000\/000\/126\/507\/400000000000000126507_s4.jpg\" height=\"500\" style=\"width: 330px; height: 458px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/josecarilloforum.com\/imgs\/MarcusAureliusCover.jpg\" height=\"396\" style=\"width: 322px; height: 461px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1416532064?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zenpundit-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1416532064\"><strong>The Spartacus War<\/strong><\/a><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zenpundit-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1416532064\" height=\"1\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: medium none\" \/><\/strong>\u00a0by <strong>Barry Stauss <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0306818302?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zenpundit-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0306818302\"><strong>Marcus Aurelius: A Life<\/strong><\/a><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zenpundit-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0306818302\" height=\"1\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: medium none\" \/><\/strong>\u00a0by <strong>Frank McLynn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The legendary slave rebellion of <strong>Spartacus<\/strong> has yielded a relatively thin book by Strauss but it is an opportunity for me to get a fresh interpretation of &#8220;Roman COIN&#8221; (as if <strong>Caesar <\/strong>were not clear enough about how Romans dealt with\u00a0insurgency\u00a0in his <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1934941425?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zenpundit-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1934941425\">Commentaries<\/a><\/strong>). <strong>Marcus Aurelius<\/strong> too has acheived almost mythic status, the stoic\u00a0philosopher-Emperor who is the gold standard to whom other rulers are compared, and frequently found wanting.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure when I will get to these&#8230;into the antilibrary pile they go \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took the children, who had a fistful of gift cards, to Barnes &amp; Noble&#8217;s yesterday and picked up a couple of books for myself: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Spartacus War\u00a0by Barry Stauss Marcus Aurelius: A Life\u00a0by Frank McLynn The legendary slave rebellion of Spartacus has yielded a relatively thin book by Strauss but it is an opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,414,420,165,294,51,367,501,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-ancient-history","category-authors","category-historians","category-historiography","category-history","category-military-history","category-myth","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}