Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Hannibal, the boy-wonder general of ancient Carthage, performed the astonishing feat of leading 37 elephants and an army of some 45,000 over the Alps into northern Italy to attack Rome in 218 B.C., experts have speculated on what route he took across the mountains. Unlike Caesar, Hannibal penned no commentary, and experts have had to make do with the later writings of Polybius and Livy...
...Hannibal was at the time of his invasion. Hoyte became a Hanniphile in 1955 while studying at Cambridge. In 1956 he led a reconnaissance group into the Alps to scout various possible routes, settled on Clapier pass because it fitted most of the meager clues left by the historians. Ancient accounts say Hannibal camped two days at the summit: the summit at Clapier pass is flat enough and big enough to hold a Hannibal-sized army. Other points that tally with old descriptions: from Clapier pass, the Po River Valley is visible, and a steep trail leads down...
...among the branches. Its occupants: a family of ospreys (fish hawks) with three fledglings-the first to be hatched in Britain since 1916. When the young birds flap off on their own in a week or two, they will mark a signal victory of British bird lovers over their ancient enemies, British egg collectors...
Once a Roman shop in the ancient city of Sardis, the baptistry is dominated by two crosses which cover earlier pagan inscriptions on a marble basin. The buildings also contained a marble baptismal font, coins from the Byzantine and Roman Empires, and a torso of Athena...
...more recent times, Gaughin and Picasso have used Renaissance and Egyptian figures as inspirations, said Brendel. The Medici Venus statue was the basis for one of Gaughin's figures in his Tahitian paintings, while Picasso has used an ancient statue of a kneeling Venus in his series of paintings: La Comedie Humaine...