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histref/ancient_rome
35 items with this tag.
Jul 24, 2026
The Wisdom of Father Brown
graph/work
setting/europe
concept/history
concept/economics
author/chesterton
concept/appearance_vs_reality
concept/guilt
concept/rationcination_detection
concept/sin_and_the_fall
concept/deception
concept/conscience
concept/grace_and_redemption
concept/good_vs_evil
archetype/detective
archetype/christ_figure
motif/masks_disguise
motif/light_and_dark
motif/blood
form/detective_fiction
form/short_story
character/father_brown
histref/christianity
setting/london
character/flambeau
concept/justice_right_and_wrong
concept/identity
concept/greed_and_money
topos/double
motif/mirror
motif/fire
motif/secrets
setting/italy
setting/paris
setting/germany
setting/america
archetype/double_doppelganger
archetype/trickster
histref/elizabethan_england
histref/ancient_rome
Jul 24, 2026
VERSES: ADDRESSED TO J. HORNE TOOKE AND THE COMPANY WHO MET ON JUNE 28TH, 1796,
graph/work
author/coleridge
form/lyric
concept/liberty
concept/reform
concept/power_and_corruption
concept/social_injustice
motif/dawn
histref/ancient_rome
Jul 24, 2026
THE TOWERS of TIME
graph/work
concept/history
author/chesterton
form/lyric
topos/sic_transit_gloria_mundi
topos/fortunes_wheel
topos/ubi_sunt
concept/transience
concept/pride
concept/faith
motif/ruins
motif/nature
histref/ancient_rome
character/the_virgin_mary
concept/freedom_and_liberty
concept/power_and_corruption
concept/eternity
concept/grace_and_redemption
topos/contemptus_mundi
motif/time
motif/light_and_dark
motif/sun
motif/crown
archetype/great_mother
form/hymn
histref/bible
histref/catholic_church
histref/carthage
Jul 24, 2026
TO LESBIA
graph/work
author/coleridge
form/lyric
topos/carpe_diem
concept/mortality
concept/love_romantic
topos/tempus_fugit
motif/sun
motif/night
histref/ancient_rome
motif/desire
Jul 24, 2026
The Road
graph/work
form/nonfiction
concept/history
author/belloc
form/essay
form/history
concept/critique_of_progress
concept/nature_vs_civilization
concept/tradition
concept/labor_and_work
concept/order_vs_chaos
motif/road
motif/journey
motif/river
histref/ancient_rome
histref/roman_history
histref/industrial_revolution
setting/rural_england
topos/journey_of_life
Jul 24, 2026
The Last Galley
graph/work
motif/sea_and_voyage
concept/history
author/conan_doyle
form/short_story
form/historical_novel
concept/empire_and_imperialism
concept/war_and_its_cost
concept/fate_and_free_will
concept/power_and_corruption
concept/faith_and_doubt
concept/justice_right_and_wrong
motif/ship
motif/sea
motif/fire
motif/blood
motif/time
histref/ancient_rome
histref/roman_history
histref/carthage
histref/christianity
setting/ancient_rome
setting/africa
archetype/tyrant
archetype/martyr_saint
archetype/avenger
topos/sic_transit_gloria_mundi
topos/fortunes_wheel
Jul 24, 2026
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago
graph/work
motif/sea_and_voyage
concept/history
author/conan_doyle
form/short_story
form/historical_novel
concept/empire_and_imperialism
concept/war_and_its_cost
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/fate_and_free_will
concept/freedom_and_liberty
motif/ship
motif/sea
motif/fire
motif/blood
motif/time
histref/roman_history
histref/ancient_rome
histref/british_empire
setting/ancient_rome
archetype/hero
archetype/tyrant
archetype/outsider
archetype/martyr_saint
topos/sic_transit_gloria_mundi
topos/fortunes_wheel
Jul 24, 2026
THE DEATH OF THE STARLING
graph/work
author/coleridge
form/elegy
motif/birds
motif/death
concept/grief_and_loss
histref/ancient_rome
histref/greek_mythology
Jul 24, 2026
The Coliseum
graph/work
author/poe
topos/sic_transit_gloria_mundi
topos/ubi_sunt
motif/ruins
motif/memory
concept/transience
histref/ancient_rome
setting/ancient_rome
motif/time
concept/immortality_of_art
form/lyric
Jul 24, 2026
The Spice of Life
graph/work
motif/sea_and_voyage
setting/europe
form/nonfiction
concept/history
concept/economics
author/chesterton
form/essay
form/literary_criticism
concept/the_artist_and_society
concept/wonder_and_gratitude
concept/joy
form/detective_fiction
concept/faith
concept/imagination
character/macbeth
character/lady_macbeth
character/king_lear
character/goneril
character/regan
character/falstaff
character/jane_eyre
character/mr_rochester
character/paul_emanuel
character/caliban
character/odysseus_ulysses
character/wilkins_micawber
character/dick_swiveller
character/seth_pecksniff
character/sam_weller
character/daniel_quilp
character/ralph_nickleby
character/little_nell
character/wackford_squeers
character/augustus_snodgrass
character/alice
character/scheherezade
character/sherlock_holmes
concept/ratiocination_detection
concept/kingship_and_legitimacy
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/madness
concept/ambition
concept/fate_and_free_will
concept/temptation
concept/power_and_corruption
concept/marriage_and_fidelity
concept/nostalgia
concept/faith_and_doubt
concept/original_sin
concept/paganism_and_classical_revival
concept/distributism
concept/education
concept/grotesque
concept/critique_of_progress
topos/sic_transit_gloria_mundi
topos/world_upside_down
topos/theatrum_mundi
topos/carpe_diem
topos/golden_age
topos/life_as_a_battle
topos/beatus_ille_happy_the_man_rural_retreat
motif/cave
motif/storm
motif/mirror
motif/ghosts
motif/light_and_dark
motif/crown
motif/dreams
motif/ship
motif/wine_and_drink
setting/london
setting/paris
setting/italy
setting/egypt
setting/cathedral
setting/medieval_england_2
setting/orient
setting/rural_england
setting/holy_land_jerusalem_and_bethlehem
archetype/detective
archetype/fool
archetype/usurper
archetype/king
archetype/trickster
archetype/madwoman
archetype/child
form/fable
form/fairy_tale_fantasy
form/melodrama
form/travel_writing
form/biography
form/satire
histref/renaissance
histref/french_revolution
histref/crusades
histref/spanish_inquisition
histref/reformation
histref/thirty_years_war
histref/arthurian_legend
histref/islam
histref/puritanism
histref/roman_history
histref/ancient_rome
histref/elizabethan_england
histref/bible
histref/dante
histref/greek_mythology
histref/medieval_england
histref/chaucer
histref/voltaire
histref/the_age_of_reason_eighteenth_century_rationalism
Jul 24, 2026
Silence-A Fable
graph/work
author/poe
motif/silence
motif/the_supernatural
motif/storm
motif/river
motif/moon
motif/blood
motif/nature
concept/terror_and_horror
concept/the_uncanny
concept/melancholy
archetype/satanic_figure
archetype/outcast_wanderer
form/fable
form/allegory
histref/ancient_rome
Jul 24, 2026
Salome
graph/work
author/wilde
topos/love_as_religion
topos/the_unattainable_beloved
topos/memento_mori
archetype/femme_fatale
archetype/prophet
archetype/martyr
archetype/tyrant
motif/moon
motif/death
motif/blood
motif/desire
motif/white_and_red
motif/music_and_song
motif/eyes_sight
concept/lust
concept/unrequited_love
concept/martyrdom
concept/the_grotesque
concept/temptation
concept/revenge
form/tragedy
form/verse_drama
histref/the_bible
histref/ancient_rome
setting/the_orient
setting/the_court
character/christ
character/salome
character/herod_antipas
character/iokanaan
character/herodias
character/the_young_syrian
Jul 24, 2026
The Rolling English Road
graph/work
concept/history
author/chesterton
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topos/the_open_road
motif/the_road
motif/wine_and_drink
concept/mortality
motif/the_inn_tavern
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
setting/rural_england
concept/joy
concept/resignation
concept/forgiveness
concept/heaven_and_the_afterlife
concept/nostalgia
concept/order_vs_chaos
topos/memento_mori
motif/flowers
motif/rose
motif/grave
archetype/common_man_2
histref/ancient_rome
histref/napoleonic_wars_the_navy
histref/battle_of_bannockburn
Jul 24, 2026
NONSENSE SAPPHICS
graph/work
author/coleridge
form/parody
histref/ancient_rome
histref/classical_antiquity
concept/satire_of_society
concept/the_artist_and_society
topos/immortality_through_verse
Jul 24, 2026
The New Jerusalem
graph/work
setting/europe
form/nonfiction
concept/history
concept/economics
author/chesterton
form/travel_writing
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histref/christianity
histref/the_bible
histref/the_crusades
histref/eastern_religion
concept/faith
concept/faith_and_doubt
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/exile
concept/paradox
topos/the_quest
archetype/pilgrim
motif/the_cross
setting/the_orient
character/christ
character/satan
character/saladin
character/godfrey_de_bouillon
character/richard_the_lionheart
character/st_george
character/judas_iscariot
character/dr_weizmann
concept/slavery
concept/democracy
concept/fanaticism
concept/class_conflict
concept/supernatural_2
concept/war_and_its_cost
concept/distributism
concept/money_and_avarice
concept/anti_industrialism
concept/zionism
topos/world_upside_down
topos/combat_strife
topos/last_stand
topos/open_road_homecoming
motif/snow
motif/lion
motif/crown
motif/journey
motif/dragon
setting/desert
setting/egypt
setting/ancient_rome_2
setting/paris
setting/london
archetype/prophet
archetype/tyrant
archetype/martyr_saint
form/apologetics
histref/islam
histref/orient_arabia
histref/first_world_war
histref/french_revolution
histref/ancient_rome
Jul 24, 2026
Modern Love
graph/work
author/keats
concept/satire_of_society
concept/love_romantic
concept/appearance_vs_reality
archetype/femme_fatale
motif/money_gold
histref/ancient_rome
form/satire
Jul 24, 2026
JULIUS CAESAR
graph/work
author/shakespeare
topos/theatrum_mundi
topos/fortunes_wheel
archetype/tragic_hero
archetype/tyrant
archetype/avenger
archetype/ghost
motif/blood
motif/swords_weapons
motif/ghosts
motif/storm
motif/the_supernatural
concept/revenge
concept/ambition
concept/power_and_corruption
concept/fate_and_free_will
concept/conscience
concept/honour
concept/justice
form/tragedy
form/verse_drama
form/blank_verse
setting/ancient_rome
histref/ancient_rome
histref/roman_history
character/julius_caesar
character/brutus
character/cassius
character/mark_antony
character/octavius_caesar
character/casca
character/portia
character/calpurnia
Jul 24, 2026
Jealousy
graph/work
concept/history
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form/ballad
form/song
histref/catholic_church
histref/christianity
concept/faith
concept/satire_of_society
character/joan_la_pucelle
character/sir_arthur_conan_doyle
character/dennis_bradley
concept/jealousy
concept/doubt
concept/conversion
topos/war_as_glory
motif/drums_and_bugles
motif/flags_and_banners
setting/ancient_rome_2
archetype/great_mother
form/mock_epic
histref/islam
histref/dante
histref/ancient_rome
Jul 24, 2026
A Short History of England
graph/work
setting/europe
form/nonfiction
concept/history
concept/economics
author/chesterton
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/the_common_man
concept/distributism
concept/anti_industrialism
concept/class_conflict
concept/social_injustice
concept/kingship_and_legitimacy
concept/power_and_corruption
concept/critique_of_progress
concept/heroism
topos/the_ages_of_the_world
topos/golden_age
topos/fortunes_wheel
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motif/swords_weapons
motif/money_gold
form/essay
histref/medieval_england
histref/the_crusades
histref/the_reformation
histref/the_industrial_revolution
histref/christianity
histref/catholic_church
histref/wars_of_the_roses
histref/ancient_rome
setting/medieval_england
character/king_arthur
character/king_alfred_2
character/thomas_becket
character/sir_thomas_more
character/henry_v
character/henry_vi
character/henry_viii
character/richard_ii
character/richard_iii
character/king_john
character/julius_caesar
character/cardinal_wolsey
character/henry_bolingbroke
character/edward_iii
character/william_the_conqueror
character/henry_ii
character/edward_i
character/charles_i
character/oliver_cromwell
character/napoleon
character/joan_of_arc
character/wat_tyler
character/nelson
character/wellington
character/simon_de_montfort
character/bolingbroke_henry_st_john
concept/democracy
concept/freedom_and_liberty
concept/slavery
concept/greed_and_money
concept/labor_and_work
topos/war_as_glory
motif/ruins_the_abbey
setting/rural_england
setting/scotland_the_highlands
setting/germany
setting/london
archetype/king
archetype/tyrant
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archetype/martyr_saint
archetype/common_man_2
histref/french_revolution
histref/renaissance
histref/puritanism
histref/elizabethan_england
histref/napoleonic_wars_the_navy
histref/first_world_war
histref/islam
histref/grail_legend
histref/arthurian_legend
histref/danish_invasions
histref/battle_of_ethandun
histref/regency_georgian_england
histref/irish_question
histref/thirty_years_war
Jul 24, 2026
God in the Cave
graph/work
form/nonfiction
concept/history
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concept/paradox
concept/love_divine
concept/humility
concept/faith_and_doubt
concept/wonder_and_gratitude
concept/the_common_man
topos/world_upside_down
motif/the_grave
motif/stars
setting/the_underworld
form/apologetics
form/essay
histref/christianity
histref/greek_mythology
histref/the_bible
character/christ
character/herod
character/magi
character/shepherds
concept/slavery
concept/individualism
concept/paganism_and_classical_revival
concept/good_vs_evil
concept/truth
topos/quest
topos/golden_age
motif/ghosts
motif/supernatural
motif/light_and_dark
setting/orient
setting/ancient_rome_2
setting/ancient_greece_2
archetype/tyrant
archetype/wise_old_man_sage
histref/ancient_greece
histref/ancient_rome
histref/eastern_religion_comparative_religion
Jul 24, 2026
For a War Memorial
graph/work
concept/economics
author/chesterton
form/epigram
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concept/war_and_its_cost
concept/immortality
topos/sic_transit_gloria_mundi
motif/ruins
histref/ancient_rome
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
motif/storm
concept/money_and_avarice
concept/vanity_of_worldly_things
concept/transience
concept/memory_and_time
topos/ubi_sunt
topos/memento_mori
motif/grave
motif/stone_and_marble
motif/lightning
setting/grave_2
form/inscription
histref/carthage
Jul 24, 2026
Europe and the Faith
graph/work
form/nonfiction
concept/history
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form/essay
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concept/tradition
concept/heresy_and_schism
concept/development_of_doctrine
concept/providence
concept/authority
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
motif/cross
motif/ruins_the_abbey
motif/bells
histref/catholic_church
histref/ancient_rome
histref/reformation
histref/medieval_england
histref/crusades
histref/first_world_war
setting/ancient_rome
setting/medieval_england_2
character/thomas_becket
character/the_pope
archetype/martyr_saint
archetype/prophet
topos/sic_transit_gloria_mundi
Jul 24, 2026
ELISA
graph/work
author/coleridge
form/epigram
concept/friendship
histref/ancient_rome
concept/love_romantic
motif/flowers
Jul 24, 2026
Divorce versus Democracy
graph/work
form/nonfiction
concept/history
concept/economics
author/chesterton
concept/marriage_and_fidelity
motif/marriage
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concept/social_injustice
concept/poverty
concept/power_and_corruption
concept/distributism
form/essay
concept/democracy
concept/critique_of_progress
concept/common_man
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/freedom
concept/satire_of_society
motif/home
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histref/ancient_rome
histref/medieval_england
histref/first_world_war
Jul 24, 2026
CYMBELINE
graph/work
author/shakespeare
form/romance_play
form/tragicomedy
form/blank_verse
concept/marriage_and_fidelity
concept/jealousy
concept/deception
concept/providence
concept/grace_and_redemption
concept/appearance_vs_reality
concept/kingship_and_legitimacy
concept/exile
topos/fortunes_wheel
topos/the_sleeper_awakes
archetype/witch
archetype/innocent
archetype/outcast_wanderer
motif/the_supernatural
motif/masks_disguise
motif/flowers
motif/sleep
histref/ancient_rome
setting/the_court
character/innogen
character/posthumus
character/cymbeline
character/iachimo
character/cloten
character/the_queen
character/belarius
character/guiderius
character/arviragus
Jul 24, 2026
CORIOLANUS
graph/work
concept/economics
author/shakespeare
form/tragedy
form/blank_verse
concept/pride
concept/honour
concept/heroism
concept/class_conflict
concept/power_and_corruption
concept/revenge
concept/war_and_its_cost
concept/exile
topos/war_as_glory
archetype/tragic_hero
archetype/hero
archetype/great_mother
motif/swords_weapons
motif/blood
histref/ancient_rome
histref/roman_history
setting/ancient_rome
setting/the_battlefield
character/coriolanus
character/volumnia
character/menenius
character/aufidius
character/virgilia
character/sicinius
character/brutus_the_tribune
character/cominius
Jul 24, 2026
Coriolan
graph/work
author/eliot
concept/power_and_corruption
concept/spiritual_emptiness
concept/satire_of_society
concept/war_and_its_cost
topos/theatrum_mundi
topos/sic_transit_gloria_mundi
motif/dust
motif/swords_weapons
motif/crown
motif/horse
archetype/tyrant
form/verse_drama
form/fragment
histref/ancient_rome
setting/ancient_rome
Jul 24, 2026
The Catholic Church and Conversion
graph/work
form/nonfiction
concept/history
concept/economics
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histref/catholic_church
concept/faith
concept/faith_and_doubt
concept/truth
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concept/martyrdom
form/apologetics
histref/christianity
concept/distributism
concept/paganism_and_classical_revival
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/class_conflict
concept/freedom_and_liberty
concept/paradox
concept/appearance_vs_reality
topos/world_upside_down
topos/journey_of_life
motif/prison
motif/window
motif/ship_2
archetype/pilgrim
form/essay
histref/ancient_rome
histref/reformation
histref/puritanism
histref/romantic_movement_sensibility
histref/renaissance
histref/first_world_war
histref/dante
histref/john_henry_newman
histref/pope_leo_xiii
Jul 24, 2026
Christmas Poem
graph/work
author/chesterton
form/hymn
form/lyric
concept/love_divine
concept/grace_and_redemption
concept/exile
concept/wonder_and_gratitude
topos/paradise_lost
topos/the_open_road
motif/the_inn_tavern
motif/stars
setting/an_inn
histref/ancient_rome
character/the_virgin_mary
character/christ
archetype/outcast_wanderer
concept/providence
concept/paradox
topos/world_upside_down
motif/home
motif/journey
archetype/great_mother
archetype/child
histref/bible
Jul 24, 2026
Cheese
graph/work
form/nonfiction
concept/history
concept/economics
author/chesterton
form/essay
form/satire
concept/anti_industrialism
concept/critique_of_progress
concept/wonder_and_gratitude
concept/nature_vs_civilization
topos/beatus_ille
motif/food_feasting
motif/the_inn_tavern
setting/rural_england
concept/distributism
concept/paradox
topos/paradise_lost
motif/bread_and_wine_eucharist
motif/journey
setting/industrial_city
archetype/pilgrim
histref/bible
histref/greek_mythology
histref/ancient_rome
histref/industrial_revolution
histref/eastern_religion_comparative_religion
Jul 24, 2026
Ballad of St Barbara
graph/work
setting/europe
concept/history
author/chesterton
form/ballad
form/narrative_poem
concept/martyrdom
concept/faith
concept/war_and_its_cost
concept/heroism
topos/the_last_stand
archetype/martyr
archetype/tyrant
motif/the_window
motif/swords_weapons
motif/blood
motif/light_and_dark
histref/the_first_world_war
histref/christianity
setting/the_battlefield
setting/paris
character/barbara_st_barbara
character/caesar
concept/freedom_and_liberty
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/self_sacrifice
concept/providence
topos/sic_transit_gloria_mundi
topos/war_as_glory
motif/lightning
motif/chains
motif/flags_and_banners
setting/africa
archetype/christ_figure
histref/ancient_rome
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Jul 24, 2026
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
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Jul 24, 2026
Anti-Religious Thought In The Eighteenth Century
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Jul 24, 2026
All I Survey
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Jul 24, 2026
A Tale of Jerusalem
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