Misc. on AtD history

[Bekah]

On Jul 11, 2009, at 6:13 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

>
> "...their world would soon end in a hecatomb of bloodshed"- 
> historian Andrew Roberts on royalty in Europe on the eve of the  
> Great War.


That's an interesting way of putting it.   A hecatomb is an ancient  
ceremonial Greek burial mound containing 100 head of cattle and  
dedicated to the gods Apollo, Hera and Athena.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecatomb

I'm trying to think about that in terms of the Great War, millions of  
casualties, and gods.

Bekah