History: Livy

Posted on Sun 18 September 2022 in history • Tagged with history, person

59 BCE- 17 CE - Livy was an important Roman historian. His crowning work, History of Rome, encompassed 142 books and chronicled the history of the city from its inception to 9 BCE. Livy was originally from northern Italy, but came to reside in Rome for his later life. It is …


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History: Ovid

Posted on Sun 11 September 2022 in history • Tagged with history, person

43 BCE- 18 CE - Ovid is said to be the last of the great poets of the Roman golden age. Ovid's work takes a carefree approach to traditional Roman values, and often lampooned them. His famous works include Amores, a series of love poems, Metamorphoses, and The Art of Love …


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History: Aeneid

Posted on Sun 04 September 2022 in history • Tagged with history, writing

30 BCE

The Aeneid was an epic poem written by Virgil, 70- 19 BCE. The Aeneid is a Homeric epic which relates the story of Aeneas, the son of Anchises of Troy. The Aeneid provides a historical context for linking Roman civilization and Greece. Aeneas is said to encompass the …


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History: Lucretius

Posted on Sun 28 August 2022 in history • Tagged with history, person

94- 55 BCE - Lucretius was a philosopher poet who based his work on traditional Greek styles of philosophical poetry. Lucretius was noted for his work, On the Nature of the Universe, which was said to have contributed to a revival of Epicurial thought in Rome between 60 and 40 BCE …


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Collective Governance

Posted on Mon 22 August 2022 in tech • Tagged with solidity, programming, ethereum, web3

One of the really awesome aspects of developing an Ethereum Smart Contract for NFT Governance is that all the code is open source. For the first time in the history of my career I can share what I am working on.

Currently I am developing a smart contract for community …


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History: Catullus

Posted on Sun 21 August 2022 in history • Tagged with history, person

87- 54 BCE - Catullus is known as one of the best "lyric poets" ever produced by Rome, however Catullus was not originally from Rome. Catullus originally came from northern Italy, though he spent much of his life in Rome. Catullus was known for his adaptations and augmentations to Greek poetry …


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