"When Asteius was archon at Athens, the Romans elected six military tribunes with consular power, Marcus Furius, Lucius Furius, Aulus Postumius, Lucius Lucretius, Marcus Fabius, and Lucius Postumius. During their term of office great earthquakes occurred in the...
In the Greek myth of Decalion and Pyrrha, the couple recreates mankind after the universal deluge by throwing rocks over their shoulders to let them grow into men and women. Why rocks? And why over their shoulders? Is this how a community, a city is rebuilt? Ovid...
In the ancient Greek and Roman mythologie there is also a story of the great deluge and of an arch. Roman poet Ovid (43 BC – 18 AD) retells it in his "Metamorphosis. Book 1". Infuriated by mankind's brutality, the highest of the Gods, Jupiter, announces: „You might...
“Only man knows natural disasters, so far as he survives them. Nature does not know disasters.” "Katastrophen kennt allein der Mensch, sofern er sie überlebt; die Natur kennt keine Katastrophen.“ from: Max Frisch: Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän. (1979) The German...
Strabo, a Greek geographer and historian whol lived from around 60 BC to 20 AD writes in his Geographica: "For the sea was raised by an earthquake and it submerged Helice, and also the temple of the Heliconian Poseidon, whom the Ionians worship even to this day,...
John Malalas (Greek: Ἰωάννης Μαλάλας, Iōánnēs Malálas) was a Byzantine writer who lived around 500 CE. In his Chronicles he records the following story from Constantinople: "In the 5th of the Indiction such a thing happened: a woman who lived near the Golden Gate was...
Greek historian Diodorus Siculus (1. Century BC) writes:"At this time occurred the third inundation of the city of Rhodes, which destroyed many of its p353 inhabitants. Of these floods, the first did little damage to the population since the city was newly founded...
The greek historian Polybius, who lived in the era of the Punic wars around 200 BC reports about the Roman military leader Scipio after his troops conquered and burnt down Carthage: "Turning round to me at once and grasping my hand Scipio said, 'A glorious...
وَكَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا مِن قَرْيَةٍۭ بَطِرَتْ مَعِيشَتَهَا ۖ فَتِلْكَ مَسَـٰكِنُهُمْ لَمْ تُسْكَن مِّنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ إِلَّا قَلِيلًۭا ۖ وَكُنَّا نَحْنُٱلْوَٰرِثِينَ "And how many a city have We destroyed that was insolent in its [way of] living, and those are their...
from the movie 2067 (2020) [Es] ist der Reiz der Ruine, dass hier ein Menschenwerk ganz wie ein Naturprodukt empfunden wird. Dieselben Kräfte, die durch Verwitterung, Ausspülung, Zusammenstürzen, Ansetzen von Vegetation dem Berge seine Gestalt verschaffen, haben sich...
