Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 20

[cahn]

Yuletide signups so far:
3 requests for Frederician RPF, 2 offers
2 requests for Circle of Voltaire RPF, 3 offers !! :D :D

(I am so curious as to who the third person is!)

Comments

Re: Alcmene and the vault

[mildred_of_midgard]

Wow. That is a heck of a tomb for a dog!

Secondly, while I don't mind someone taking one of Alcmene II's bones as a souvenir as much as I mind people doing the same to Katte's skeleton, I have to day, 19th century tourists really have no shame in that regard, do they?

What I was thinking! Though 18th century tourists had no shame when it came to looting works of art and archaeological remains: I enjoyed Wilhelmine cozying up to the Pope's people so they would look the other way while she illegally removed piece after piece from Italy. ;)

Anyway, if the bones were there in 1860 but calcified

I'm wondering what it means that they were calcified: I thought bones *were* calcified, like, by definition?

If he means they were already starting to visibly break up, then yeah, they were probably gone 130 years later.