These were carved nearly 1000 years BEFORE the golden age of ancient Athens‼️ They predate Phidias by as much as the Bayeux Tapestry does from Banksy. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/QPLgmYGITO
— Dan Snow (@thehistoryguy) January 12, 2019
A children’s book I want to write someday is full of comparisons like this one, that such-and-such a thing was ancient to those we think of as ancient. For example, we live closer in time to Thomas Aquinas than Aquinas did to Augustine of Hippo. William Shakespeare lived closer in time to the founding of the United States than he did to Columbus’s discovery of North America. Julius Caesar lived closer to the invention of the internal combustion engine than he did to the construction of the Egyptian pyramids. Much of what we think of as dead and gone is practically knocking at our back door.
Christian Leithart 