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Message:: [QUOTE="Michael W. Bradley, post: 8353175, member: 114144"]Once again, coming in on the tail-end of several discussions. Yet, surely the coins we depict here represent "History". History is what it is. The legacy handed down the ions of conflicts between cultures and yes races. The word "Politics" refers to the Greek origin of "polis" or "city" or it's relationship to the rest of 'the world'. We see Great Civilizations with great ideals come AND fall. Before Caesar we had the civil bloodbaths of Marius and Sulla. After Caesar we had Marcus T. Cicero (in writing) lambast Mark Anthony in the most vicious way. (For which his head and hands were nailed to the rostrum). One of the greatest Roman thinkers Marcus Aurelius could not undo what was to befall the greatness of Rome. Then the legacy fell to adoptive England. I think of it as I think of Opera-(I don't try to impose my tastes) only that to me these sorts of conflicts are put in an art form for us to learn from.  A line FROM: "Jason and The Argonauts" (1964): "(Polius) to Hera (Honor Blackman) "Then why did Zeus drive me to kill this girl?" (Hera) "Zeus cannot drive men to do such things, that the gods may know them and that men may understand themselves.""[/QUOTE]