#ancient rome

[ancientcharm]

Beautiful colors from Ancient Rome (II)

Mosaic plaque fragments from late Roman Republic time

#roman mosaic #roman art #archaeology #ancient rome

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Torso of Venus.

Date: A.D. 1–200

Culture: Roman

Marble: Marble

#ancient #ancient art #history #museum #archeology #ancient sculpture #roman #ancient history #archaeology #ancient rome #roman empire #torso of venus #venus #marble #1st century #3rd century

[memories-of-ancients]

Roman epitaph inscribed "Sergius Asinius Phainus made this for his most sweet mother, Annia Isias"

1st-2nd century AD

from The British Museum

#history #antiquities #art #ancient history #ancient art #ancient rome

[earlgrey24]

People who don't read historical RPF will never know the joys and delights of reading through 3+ Wiki pages, 5 JSTOR articles and looking at at least 2 separate family tree diagrams to determine just how problematic their ship is

#is it a joke? can't even tell #history #history memes #fanfic #ao3 #historical rpf #tagamemnon #ancient rome #frev #history shitposting #ancient greece #classics memes #bad jokes tuesday #hall of fame

[maddoxfanx]

vitte judo throw

#oc #armor #ancient rome #character design

[illustratus]

Christian Dirce by Henryk Siemiradzki

#henryk siemiradzki #art #nero #emperor #christian #dirce #ancient rome #roman empire #roman #romans #antiquity #martyr #martyrs #greek mythology #euripides #bull #horns #women #reenactment #queen of thebes #enactments #history #europe #european #entourage #lictors #fasces #architecture #rome

[latin-literature-tourney]

Latin Literature Tournament - Round 1

Propaganda under the cut!

Livy Propaganda

Wanna teach your kids some exempla virtutis? Look no further

Writes in really fantastic periodic style

An undergrad in a class I TA’d for once referred to him in an essay as “my homeboy Livy,” and frankly there is no review more glowing than that

Sallust Propaganda

Writes prose like it's poetry

Loves to work in fun little archaisms without warning, as a treat

Does really amazing things with speeches and rhetoric

#tagamemnon #Latin literature tournament #classics #Latin literature #sallust #Livy #ancient Rome #tournament polls #bracket #catiline #ab urbe condita

[howamidrivinginlimbo]

Sculpture of Apollo Citaredo in Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

Originally, the sculpture from the 2th century depicted the city of Rome as a goddess. In the nineteenth century it was restored as Apollo Citaredo. The statue is part of the Farnese Collection.

#naples #napoli #apollo #greek gods #statue #sculpture #art #art history #ancient art #rome #ancient rome #archaeology #antiquity #ancient history #photography #travel #travel photography #history #culture #art photography #museum photography #art museum #farnese #greek mythology #mythology #roman mythology #roman gods #roman empire

[wandering-italy]

A floor mosaic found in the Villa Romana del Casale (often called Piazza Armerina), a 4th century Ancient Roman villa in Central Sicily. This villa has some of the best preserved in situ Roman mosaics in Italy.

Dec. 2019

#piazza armerina #ancient rome #ancient roman #ancient art #mosaic #art #italia #italy #original photography #photography #travel #photographers on tumblr #lensblr #architecture #historical architecture #villa #interior design #villa romana del casale #sicily #sicilia #wanderingjana

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

Actual roman epitaph for a dog

#rome #wholesome memes #epitaph #ancient rome #dogs #memes #sad aesthetic

[ajthebumblebee]

This seems to be what I've learned.

#ancient greek culture #ancient rome #ancient egypt #comics

[ancientcharm]

The mysterious Pompeii bracelet

Found in the reamains of a young woman, inside an inn, it is the only specimen in the museum that has an inscription: "DOMINUS ANCILLAE SUAE" which means "From the master to his slave girl." In a documentary I heard an expert on ancient Rome and Roman jewelry say, "It was unusual for a master to give gifts to his slaves, much less gold gifts, this is a mystery."

#roman jewelry #pompeii #archaeology #ancient rome

[is-it-the-ides-of-march]

🥳🔪🕺🔥💃✨️🤗🎉🤩🎊❤️‍🔥🤪🗡😈🎉🤺

#ides of march #julius caesar #caesar #brutus #ancient rome #roman history #rome #history #tumblr holidays #tumblr history #tumblr humor #tumblr #march 15

[memories-of-ancients]

The Roman Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt

In ancient history the pharaoh was the head of state and ruler of the country. However, he was not just a secular ruler, but a divine being on Earth who acted as an intermediary between the spiritual world and the earthly world. In essence he was a mortal representative of the gods. Interestingly, one did not have to be an Egyptian to be an Egyptian pharaoh. The act of conquering and ruling Egypt qualified one to be a pharaoh. As a result there were many foreign pharaohs throughout Egyptian history including those who were Persian, Nubian, Libyan, Hyksos, Kushite, and Macedonian Greek.

In 30 BC Cleopatra VII became the last ruler of Egypt from the Macedonian Greek Ptolemaic Dynasty. Cleopatra had backed the losing side of a Roman civil war, opposing Octavian and supporting Marc Antony. Octavian won, she was deposed, she committed suicide, and Egypt became a Roman province. When Octavian became Augustus and founded the Roman Empire, the Egyptians also recognized him as the official Pharaoh of Egypt. Afterwards successive Roman emperors were also declared pharaohs, until around the 4th century when Christianity became the dominant religion in Egypt.

Truth be told, most if not all Roman emperors didn't give a damn about being pharaohs. Most emperors never even stepped foot in Egypt and it didn't seem like they took their role as pharaoh very seriously. Regardless Egyptian iconography and art was crafted depicting Roman emperors in Egyptian style wearing Egyptian royal regalia and interacting with Egyptian gods. Some interesting examples are...

Gigachad Pharaoh Augustus

Tiberius

Nero

Nero again

Trajan making sacrifices to Hathor

Domitian

Domitian with Horus

Caracalla

Marcus Aurelius

#history #ancient history #ancient egypt #ancient rome #roman emperors #roman egypt

[julius-caeser]

Boys night on the 15th of March, in the senate! so excited so hang out with the boys, heard theres cake, hope someone brought a knife.

#ides of march #julius caesar #caesar #ancient rome #brutus #gaius julius caesar #roman history #rome #roleplay #yeah similar to last year but you try being a uni student pretending to be julius caesar for the 5th year in a row

[sourcreammachine]

oh shit - i was time travelling and accidentally killed an ancient italian. doesn’t matter tho everyone was killing each other, when in Reme do as the Remans

#196 #puns #ancient rome