historia mundi;

art is a line around your thoughts.

according to plutarch's biography of alexander the great, when his forces took thebes during alexander's balkan campaign of 335 BC, thracian forces pillaged the city, and a captain of the thracian forces raped timocleia. after raping her, the captain asked if she knew of any hidden money. she told him that she did, and led him into her garden, and told him there was money hidden in her well. when the thracian captain stooped to look into the well, timoclea pushed him into the well, and then hurled heavy stones into the well until the captain was dead. (x)

on the evening of monday, 8 december 1980, lennon was shot and killed by mark david chapman in the archway of the dakota, his residence in new york city. lennon had just returned from record plant studio with his wife, yoko ono. after sustaining four major gunshot wounds, lennon was pronounced dead on arrival at roosevelt hospital.(...) the surgeon noted—as did other witnesses—that a beatles song ("all my loving") came over the hospital's sound system at the moment lennon was pronounced dead. (x)

mozart died in his home on 5 December 1791 (aged 35) at 12:55 am. the new grove describes his funeral: “mozart was interred in a common grave, in accordance with contemporary viennese custom, at the st. marx cemetery outside the city on 7 december. if, as later reports say, no mourners attended, that too is consistent with viennese burial customs at the time (...). the tale of a storm and snow is false; the day was calm and mild.” (x)