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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4494207, member: 93416&quot;]I am only just digging into this a little, but yes – Constantine’s doings in this regard look rather restrained and piecemeal compared with what happened under Theodosius. So this Serapeum matter is a bit of a diversion from the original question, but an interesting one.</p><p><br /></p><p>The sort of religiously driven vandalism of the 390’s seems to me very similar to what happened under Cromwell in England in the mid 17th century, but also what we saw Islamic fundamentalists doing very recently (eg with Buddhist monuments in Afghanistan). But the really striking matter is that it seems also to be recorded amongst the Neolithic monuments in Brittany – which sometime prior to c. 4,000 BC had carvings of animals and the like on the stones of monuments – monuments that were apparently destroyed and replaced by ones with Geometric designs. If so – such doings are way older than history – and tell us something rather profound about human societies. What it tells me is - be wary of self-righteous political correctness. But that is maybe a personal view, as I often enough seem to be in the minority <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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