These carvings not only commemorated the deceased but also demonstrated their social status and achievements. The Mausoleum of Augustus in the Campus Martius was a massive circular tomb built for the emperor and his family. The Pyramid of Cestius, a unique 36-meter-tall pyramid in Rome, was ...
The majority of Egyptians did not benefit, however. The reforms and new economy favored the new regime and its new Greco-Macadonian administrative class. Some Egyptians did move up the social hierarchy by becoming "Greek" in educational terms, but the majority of the populace did not seem abl...
With the above Christology, Gebara and Ruether seem to offer Catholics a spatial metaphor of a circle to replace that of a pyramid in how currently they might relate to one another and creation, a salvation represented not as an Earthly flight but as offering our presence of tenderness and ...