It’s Still The Same Old Story

Worth noting too that debates over public monuments are as old as the “western tradition” itself, with Christian efforts to take down Augustus’s Altar of Victory igniting a decades-long paroxysm about the role of Rome’s polytheistic roots in the 4th century Christian empire https://t.co/0MhiLwNGGS

— Ames Grawert (@AmesCG) May 8, 2021

Where are the statues of Caesar? Napoleon? Ozymandias?

A fight for love and glory. But all fame is fleeting. Not just for the hero, but for society.

Sic transit gloria.