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its-a-jolly-world · 3 months

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Happy march 15th 🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️

#ides of march #time to stab a roman emperor #Yes I know the font is wrong #I spent way too much time on this already tho #March 15 #julius caesar #rome #caesar #brutus

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just-late-roman-republic-things · 9 months

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So, apparently Emperor Julian wrote what historians call a satire, and what I call a "crossover crack-fic in which the Greek gods get all the Roman emperors together in a room and make them argue about who's the coolest."

This crack-fic has, incredibly, survived. It's about 90% Julian roasting historical figures through the mouth of Dionysus' boyfriend. Favorite bits:

Julius Caesar, Augustus and Tiberius show up and are appropriately shit-talked. (And, for Tiberius, kink-shamed.) Caligula steps through the door and is immediately yeeted into Tartarus before anyone can say anything about him.

Nero comes in with his lyre and Apollo promptly knocks the laurel wreath off his head.

Alexander the Great crashes the party and he and Julius Caesar hate each other on sight.

The gods ask Romulus if any of his descendants are a match for Alexander and Romulus is internally like "Aw, shit."

Alexander almost storms out of the party because he doesn't get to monologue first.

When it's Augustus' turn to make a speech Poseidon doesn't let him have a cup of water because he's still mad about that one time Augustus blasphemed against him 400 years earlier.

The gods tell each of the emperors to Explain Themselves and Marcus Aurelius is like, "But you gods already know everything about us," and they're like "...That's fair."

Cameo appearance from Jesus at the very end, who's apparently best bros with Pleasure in a sort of "sin with one, get forgiveness from the other free!" deal.

#oh julian you're such a nerd #it really does feel like a fanfic (affectionate tone)#the caesars by emperor julian #ancient rome #emperor julian #just roman memes

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wulfhalls · 2 months

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googling cat names like: seraphim name lists. ancient sumerian names. places that appear in the bible. zoroastrianism. roman emperors. russian authors. famous freemasons. top 100 names of the angevin empire.

#casting a wide net here #txt.me #ok i dont need to roman emperor list i know my guys. octavian and caracalla top candidates #just me and boy gethsemane over here

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julius-caeser · 1 year

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#ides of march #look at what youve done #youve given a perfectly normal emperor anxiety #julius caesar #caesar #ancient rome #brutus #gaius julius caesar #roman history #rome

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illustratus · 3 months

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An Audience at Agrippa's by Lawrence Alma-Tadema

#lawrence alma tadema #art #agrippa #marcus agrippa #marcus vipsanius agrippa #ancient rome #emperor #rome #roman #romans #history #antiquity #roman empire #europe #european #architecture #statue

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earlymodernbarbie · 2 months

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Reference drawing of Juana I of Castile for the Tomb of Maximillian I by Jörg Kölderer (1522)

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destielmemenews · 6 months

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"The North Hertfordshire museum will now refer to the emperor Elagabalus with female pronouns.

Museum policy states the pronouns used in the displays will be those ‘the individual in question might have used themselves’ or whatever pronoun ‘in retrospect, is appropriate’."

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#destiel meme #destiel meme news #world news #news #ancient rome #roman empire #roman emperor #elagabalus #rip elagabalus you were a real one #trans history #i guess #transgender #trans woman #this is pretty cool actually #now can we get the same treatment for historical persons that weren't horrifically assassinated

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xplore-the-unknwn · 6 months

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"Am I not Merciful?" - Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus (Gladiator, 2000)

Pt. 1, Pt. 2

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howamidrivinginlimbo · 6 months

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The Baths of Caracalla in Rome, Italy

The Baths were unprecedented in size: 1600 Romans could bathe at the same time. Apart from the bathing facilities, there were two libraries and there were shops, offices, gardens and even an area for sport. It simply didn't fit inside of Rome, and that is why it was built just outside of it, by the Appian Way (Via Appia).

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uncleclaudius · 7 months

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Apotheosis of Claudius, showing an eagle carrying the emperor off to the heavens to become a god after his death in 54 AD.

#ancient rome #ancient art #roman empire #emperor claudius #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations

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ancientcharm · 2 months

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Relief representing Marcus Aurelius and the members of the imperial family sacrificing before temple of Jupiter on Capitol. Created circa 176-180. Photo by Jean-Pol GRANDMONT at the Capitoline Museums of Rome, Italy.

This relief showing the ritual that roman called Taurobolium, the sacrifice of a bull to the god Jupiter offered by the emperor.

#roman empire #roman art #ancient rome #archaeology #roman emperors

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charlesoberonn · 3 months

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A quick alternate history scenario I made for the r/AlternateHistory subreddit:

In 1796, George Washington reluctantly runs for a third term as president to prevent Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans from taking hold of government. His third and final term is more rocky than the first two, with the south being especially unhappy with some of his reforms, though they associate them with his vice-president John Adams and Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton. On December 14th, 1799, George Washington dies in office. The nation is in turmoil and mourning. The Democratic-Republicans call for a special election, but vice-president John Adams is declared president instead. On Christmas 1799 a protest march on DC turns violent when federal forces clash with protestors and revolutionary war veterans. Jefferson declares Adams an illegitimate usurper. Adams calls off next year's election. Several state legislatures , especially in the South, declare Jefferson as a provisional emergency leader for the purpose of ousting the Federalist regime. The American Civil War has begun. On January 15, with DC about to be overtaken, an internal vote within the Federalist war cabinet decide to oust Adams and appoint his vice president and war hero Alexander Hamilton as president instead. The tide of the war turns, with the Federalist forces able to protect the north and much of their territory, but it is short lived. The Federalist are forced to abandon DC on April and retreat to New York City as a provisional capital. Hamilton himself refuses to go. He is captured by the Democratic-Republicans along with Adams. Jefferson is appointed president on April 19th. In July, Senator Gouverneur Morris is appointed as temporary leader of the Federalist forces in New York. The war stalls for several months as the Democratic-Republican forces fail to make inroads into the north. Meanwhile Jefferson's administration is poorly received and he is compared poorly to the Reign of Terror in France, especially after the public executions of Adams and Hamilton, and after the French Revolutionary government acknowledges him as the legitimate president. The British back Morris and the Federalists and provide military assistance in return for territorial concessions out west. Despite the Democratic-Republicans trying to paint Morris as a traitor for his British support, the public hates Jefferson more, compounded by a series of military defeats. On December 14th, during a public memorial service for the 1 year anniversary of Washington's death, Jefferson presents himself as the true heir to the venerated general. This creates outrage and leads to a 6 days siege of the White House, at the end of which Jefferson is dragged out and beaten to death by the public and some of his own soldiers. The Democratic-Republican forces subsequently surrender and the capital is captured by Federalist and British forces. Morris is appointed president and his first act is to call in a new Constitutional Convention in order to draft a new constitution, one with the primary aim of preventing another civil war.

#alternate history #american history #inspired by the Roman Empire's 'year of four emperors'

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thesilicontribesman · 3 months

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Trajan Recruits Soldiers. Arch of Trajan at Beneventum, 114 CE

A cuirassed military god in the centre presents a recruit to the roman emperor. The new soldier stands feet together: his height is being measured by a wooden frame held by the soldier on the right (in situ, west side, middle zone)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

#roman #romans #roman empire #roman army #roman soldiers #roman sculpture #roman craft #roman statue #roman society #trajan #ashmolean #archaeology #relic #ancient cultures #roman emperors

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brother-emperors · 2 months

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The great general remained, and then saw a wonderful vision clearly shown him by the very God of the universe himself. In it he seemed to see the divine Meletius, chief of the church of the Antiochenes, investing him with an imperial robe, and covering his head with an imperial crown. The morning after the night in which he had seen the vision he told it to one of his intimate friends, who pointed out that the dream was plain and had nothing obscure or ambiguous about it.

Theodoret Ecclesiastical History 5.6

wahoo! Theodosius! so a repeating phrase in the gospel of Luke is 'do not be afraid,' but specifically: I'm most immediately referencing the annunciation of the shepherds (Luke 2:10) because I used this illustration for the last panel since it. sort of. connects to Valens, Theodosius' predecessor, who went from commoner to king at the will of his older brother. HOWEVER. because of that transformation. I cannot escape the 'do not be afraid' just a chapter before (Luke 1:30) that Gabriel gives to Mary because ascension to the imperial throne is an ugly, violent, and violating transformation. and. well.