Past Passport
Joseph PickettThe Romans worried about debt and bad leaders. So do we. Every generation thinks it's living through the end of something. Most of them were wrong. Join Past Passport as we explore why. AI best practices for writers and non-technical people also covered.
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The Roman Forum Was Painted. Nobody Told Thomas Jefferson
The Roman Forum today. The marble survived. The paint didn't. The assumption outlived them both
I enter the Roman Forum through the Arch of Constantine, white gravel crunching under my shoes as I descend into the ancient world.
The ruins,...
What the Library of Alexandria Actually Died Of
The Library of Alexandria as imagined by 19th-century artist O. Von Corven. Nobody alive has seen the real thing. That's part of the problem.
Julius Caesar burned down the Library of Alexandria. One fire and one night. Centuries of human k...
The Books Rome Lost Were Never Burned
I paid maybe $75 for this pile. The people who kept these books alive paid considerably more.
My desk is stacked with roughly 27 pounds of great books that would have seemed like witchcraft to a Roman senator in 500 AD.
The Iliad and Odys...
What Keats Heard the Second Time
John Keats, by William Hilton after Joseph Severn, circa 1822. Keats had been dead for a year when it was finished.
One evening in October 1816, a 20-year-old poet sat down with a 200-year-old book and didn’t sleep until dawn. By morning,...
Cicero Called It a River of Gold. Then It Vanished.
The book we almost lost.
I found a copy of the Nicomachean Ethics in a used bookstore last month. The Athenaeum Book Club starts reading it next week. I wanted to get a feel before the readings begin.
The book in my hands came close to...
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An optimist writing about history to show how every generation thinks it's over. It never is. Also writing about using AI as a history writer. Open book on what works, what doesn't, and what I got wrong. Followed by The Culturist (#2 in History).
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