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The plaster cast was, in a sense, the fount of classical art and classical knowledge, and people like Goethe were inspired not so much by what we would think of as the authentic marble object, but by looking at plaster casts.ДЄt one point in the Parthenon book вЂ“ I mention it just very briefly вЂ“ there was a moment, in the 1930s, when the British Museum had got all of ElginвЂ™s marbles there, but the bits they didnвЂ™t have they filled in with plaster casts from Greece. But, certainly, in the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century, plaster casts were the object that provided people with вЂњrealвЂќ connection with the classical world. Now вЂ“ and I mean since the total commitment within modernism to вЂњauthenticityвЂќ вЂ“ we regard plaster casts as cheap and perhaps awkward copies of the original. IвЂ™ve been thinking recently about the role of the plaster cast, and about collections of plaster casts and, in a sense, it seems to me that the cult of the plaster cast, in seventeenth to early mid-nineteenth century Europe, had much in common with what StilleвЂ™s describing in China. Mary Beard: This idea, of the meticulous copy being used as a stand-in for the ancient artifact вЂ“ and that, somehow, this substitution can be its own historical object вЂ“ well thatвЂ™s one we actually find our own past. Stille writes that, in China, copying вЂњis a sign of reverence rather than lack of originality.вЂќ Do you foresee any sort of interpretive conflict on the horizon between these different cultural notions of authenticity and the past? ThereвЂ™s an essay by Alexander Stille, for instance, called вЂњ The Culture of the Copy and the Disappearance of ChinaвЂ™s Past,вЂќ where he describes how meticulous copies are often used in China as stand-ins for ancient artifacts вЂ“ without that substitution being acknowledged. In this installment we discuss cultural authenticity and the rise of archaeo-tourism China, the pirating of ancient history, and plaster casts of statuary A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum the little-understood lost lifestyle patterns of the pyroclastically entombed Pompeii and the urban military spectacles of imperial Rome.Д«LDGBLOG: IвЂ™d like to ask you about different cultural attitudes toward copying and historical reproduction.

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I thought it would be more interesting if the AI kept the alliance for a little longer.This is Part Two of a two-part interview with Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Cambridge University and general editor of the Wonders of the World, a new series published by Profile and Harvard University Press. Also, Roman archers got moved to level 3 auxiliary barracks, so now I actually have to build them.Д®DIT: Also, the Roman alliance breaks up too easy, like 4 or 5 turns in, every time. Now I have to sacrifice a slot in each of my province capitals for level 4 gladiator pits. The only problem is that they took away the grove of nymphs. The new building chains are also good, with level 3 shops, ports and farms in every province, I have loads of money with no food shortage. I could never get this amount of money from a single province before Emperor Edition without being at least 150 turns in. Within 40 turns, Corsica et Sardinia is making more money than Latium and Africa is pumping out 7000 coins per turn.

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His position is just too easy, I capture Pompey as soon as possible, make every nation in Africa and Spain my client, then went on full economic mode.

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