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'he was pater patriae and the republic fucking died' lives rentfree in my head

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Partial view of bathroom in House of Menander, Pompeii.

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people born in 24 Are 2000 now

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writing historical fiction will make you google things like “when we’re towels invented?” “how much did a towel cost in American in 1885?” “historical average number of towels owned per household”

#or what plant species are indigenous to a country #and if they are imports how long have they been there #also true for animals

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DANCING MAENADS: 2 Large Marble Frieze Reliefs H89 X W165 cm each, Roman "The female figures are faithful copies of the models created at the end of the 5th c. BC by the Greek sculptor Callimachus. Some, such as the maenad holding a basket full of fruit and the one screaming disheveledly brandishing two torches and with her arms wrapped in snakes, are however not typical of the Dionysian thiasos but refer to the iconography of an offering bearer or a Hora [season] and that of an Erinyes [personification of revenge especially towards those who attack one's family], themes that adapt to a funerary context." [txt ©MRT] White Marble Mid- 1st AD

LEFT [no faces preserved]

RIGHT [featured in this post].

Musei Reali Torino, Turin | MRT [Museum of Antiquities | Museo di Antichità, -1 Floor] • Web: https://museireali.beniculturali.it/en/archaeological-museum • FB: https://www.facebook.com/museirealitorino • IG: @ museirealitorino • X: @ MuseiRealiTo

MRT | Michael Svetbird phs©msp 18|02|24 6300X4200 600 [I.] The photographed objects are collection items of MRT, photos are copyrighted [non commercial use | sorry for the watermarks]

📸 Part of the "Reliefs-Friezes-Slabs-Sculpture" MSP Online Photo-gallery:

👉 D-ART: https://www.deviantart.com/svetbird1234/gallery/72510770/reliefs-friezes-slabs-sculpture

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I'm not saying that the view from Tiberius' Yeeting Cliff on Capri is to die for... I'm just saying I think I'd be more than happy to take my chances with Tibby if it meant getting to see this every day on my job. And if I die... What a view to be the last thing I see!

#Capri #isle of capri #they call me mr tiberius #shameless tiberius stan #tiberius claudius nero #tiberius #tibby #ancient rome #roman history #roman empire #how often do you think about the roman empire #ancient history #caesar #augustus #villa jovis #Tiberius' leap #Tiberius' Yeeting Cliff

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House of the wounded bear, Pompeii.

Photo: Silvia Vacca

The name of the house is due to the mosaic on the entrance floor that depicts a bear wounded by a spear.

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did a simplified map of sextus pompey's movements throughout his life because i'm bad at geography and this helps me visualize better, and. my good sir. that is a circle.

#you are doing the lords work #sextus pompey #sextus can sext us #research purposes

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Awkward teenage Julius Caesar posted this

#roman history #ancient rome #roman empire #how often do you think about the roman empire #ancient history #julius caesar #caesar #roman republic

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Circus Games in Ancient Rome by Luigi Ademollo

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post cancelled just had a prophetic vision of the rotting bloated corpses clogging the river the blood swelling the tiber's waters the gore rent from romes decaying arteries the dead men kept standing by the sheer mass of their slaughtered fellows their heads lolling limply their jaws hanging slack the . waitasecond WHOO is that beautiful androgynous ginger man over there i need him in my bed IMMEDIATELY

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#I'm punching julius Caesar in the face #tearing Augustus apart with my bare hands #and bringing my sweet baby Keats the cure for TB

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"average roman senator has 3 wives in his lifetime" factoid actualy just statistical error. average roman senator has 1 wife in his lifetime. gnaeus pompenis magnus Georg, who lives in his theater and has 5 wives each year, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Went to the Naples Archaeological Museum and yes I took pictures of every statue of my dude Tiberius and may (or may not) have squealed "Tibby" at least once... Also plagued my non-history nerd bestie with a passionate defense of Tiberius against allegations she didn't even know existed

#shameless tiberius stan #tiberius claudius nero #tiberius #emperor tiberius #tibby #they call me mr tiberius #roman history #ancient rome #roman empire #how often do you think about the roman empire #ancient history #caesar #augustus #julio claudian dynasty #julio claudians #livia #livia drusilla #drusus

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the cicero problem is possibly thee funniest interpretative issue of all time. hi it’s me cicero your major source for the late roman republic. i cannot be trusted but you don’t really have a choice here do you :)

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The one bizarre thing to me about textiles is that warp-weighted weaving is at least 6500 years old, but our oldest knitted artifacts are only ~1000 years old, and crochet 200 years old. Even though you need less equipment to knit (two sticks) or crochet (one hook) compared to warp-weighted weaving (frame, loom weights, batting, heddles). Why the big gaps between these inventions? And why did each one appear and spread when it did?