Rosalind Park

Edition - May, 2012

Ammit  -  Mother of the Sphinx?

Ammit – Mother of the Sphinx?

In the 1st century BC, the pragmatic Roman orator, Cicero (De Natura Deorum 2, 2) felt that in his educated and informed age, “those inventions of the imagination” ought to be put aside. For he enquired: “Who believes that the Hippocentaurus or the Chimaera ever existed”? [more…]