{"id":1358,"date":"2011-01-08T14:36:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T19:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2021-01-10T07:57:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T12:57:49","slug":"amor-vincet-omnia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=1358","title":{"rendered":"Roma and Amor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori<br \/>\n~ Virgil <em>Eclogue<\/em> X.69\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Amor_Vincet_Omnia.jpg\" alt=\"Amor Vincet Omnia\" title=\"Amor Vincet Omnia by Caravaggio\" class=\"rightbox\" \/><br \/>\nThe Roman poet Virgil composed this line: &#8220;<strong>Love conquers all and let us yield to love.<\/strong>&#8221; Vladimir Solovyov, changing the context somewhat, explains its significance:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Against the false man-god of political monarchy the true God-Man set up the spiritual power of ecclesiastical monarchy founded on truth and love. Universal monarchy and international unity were to remain; the center of unity was to keep its place. But the central power itself, its character, its origin, and its authority&mdash;all this was to be renewed.<\/p>\n<p>The Romans themselves had a vague presentiment of this mysterious transformation. While the ordinary name of Rome was the Greek word for &#8220;might,&#8221; the citizens of the Eternal City believed that they discovered the true meaning of her name by reading it backward in Semitic fashion: <em>amor<\/em>, and the ancient legend revived by Virgil connected the Roman people and the dynasty of Caesar in particular with the Mother of Love, and through her with the supreme God.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love conquers all and let us yield to love. <span class=\"continue-reading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=1358\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19,320,98],"tags":[336,323],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-history","category-romanity","category-vladimir-solovyov","tag-caravaggio","tag-virgil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13680,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/13680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}