KEYS OF ANTIQUITY

AND THE ANCIENT CIPHER

The ancient Greek and Roman societies were riven by traditions and varied schools of thought.  The main academic subjects centered around the works of such great philosophers and thinkers  as Plato, Pythagoras, Aristotle, Euclid and Diogenes.  Arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, philosophy, music, logic and theology were among the main subjects studied.  Even in the first century A.D. the arts flourished in Pompeii under Greek and Roman influence.  Some of the wonderful frescos that adorn the main hall of the Villa of Mysteries and the house of the Vetii resemble the works of Nicholas Poussin.  Though Pompeii was covered  on the 24th August 79 A.D. to a depth of twenty metres by  volcanic ash and the pyroclastic  flow from Mount Vesuvius these works of art emerged in the mid nineteenth century.  Nicholas Poussin’s painting ‘Les Bergers d’Arcadie’, now in the Paris Louvre, conceals that same Dionysian cipher which appears in those frescos of  Pompeii.  There also stands the Temple of Vespasian  for the worship of the Emperor Vespasian who, with his son Titus, sacked Jerusalem in 70 AD.

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