#lentulus

[cressidium]

Spartacus: Blood and Sand: 1x11 "Old Wounds"

#spartacus #spartacusedit #quintus lentulus batiatus #andy whitfield #john hannah #perioddramaedit #historyedit #tvedit #gif #*

[bruiisedpetals]

DUSTIN CLARE ft. JOHN HANNAH as GANNICUS & QUINTUS LENTULUS BATIATUS in SPARTACUS: GODS OF THE ARENA (2011)

#perioddramasource #perioddramagif #perioddramaedit #gannicus #dustin clare #spartacusedit #usermina #spartacus: gods of the arena #gods of the arena #periodedit #dustin clare fc #spartacus edit #userdevon #weloveperioddrama #perioddramasonly #perioddramacentral #spartacus 0x01 #john hannah #quintus lentulus batiatus

[pleasingnight]

I think they should have killed Caesar with Dolabella. As in, using him as a weapon. He is small enough for that to work.

#publius cornelius dolabella #also: dolabella is the second conspiracy-adjacent lentulus who sucks. the first was sura.

[pedroam-bang]

Spartacus (1960)

#1960 #film #movie #Spartacus #Stanley Kubrick #Kirk Douglas #Peter Ustinov #Lentulus Batiatus #Laurence Olivier #Crassus #Marcus Licinius Crassus #Tony Curtis #Antoninus #Rome #Roman Republic #gladiator #gladius

[edwardscissorfeet]

octavian being born as lentulus sura dies. uhhh welcome BACK janky leg guy

#octavian #augustus #i know lentulus sura died after octavian was born. who give a shit though

[entiish]

john  hannah  as  𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐒  𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐋𝐔𝐒  𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒 &  lucy  lawless  as  𝐋𝐔𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐀 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐬:  𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝  𝐚𝐧𝐝  𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐝.  S02E01 ,  “The  Red  Serpent” 

        ( my spartacus series. )

#spartacus blood and sand #spartacus #starz spartacus #john hannah #lucy lawless #skye gifs spartacus #spartacus starz #spartacus edit #period edit #tv series #skye giffed* #lucretia #lucretia x batiatus #batiatus #quintus lentulus batiatus

[soldatrose]

re: gabinius's trial de maiestate

the "let's sacrifice gabinius" moment

2. like for real. everyone is against this guy

3. also i'm an absolvo kind of girl but let's talk about l. lentulus just one minute bc there's something there too:

4. hey hey cicero ok but also i got some questions about 63bc

#literally did not see caelius was there until i started screenshotting so i extented the quote. you get one (1) caelius for free #anyway. there's so much happening with lentulus and the vatinius & vettius incident it's hellish to understand #BUT this is some opera plot kind of shit. gabinius would be a baritone. #i think i'm gonna collect citations for the following trials i'm obsessed with this whole situation #and i didn't even get to read gabinius's defence yet! #spam tag #ringletted dude

[starsspin]

batiatus really down plays just how goddamn clever he really is and i love it. like he and lucretia have that whole argument about what's going to happen when sura gets there. and batiatus is like don't worry about it, i got it covered. and then just as she does get there, she dies in sparty's arms and batiatus turns to lucretia with this look and says "my word is kept, they are reunited." all but saying that this had more or less been the plan from the start LIKE SIR THAT IS SO COLD and despicable but also absolutely brilliant

#even lucretia is like holy shit #i know john had a blast playing the character and it shows #&. quintus lentulus batiatus #&. quintus lentulus batiatus : general

[starsspin-a]

also when batiatus chooses numerius choice over varro’s life, that is the exact moment the tide shifts as he losses any and all of spartacus’ loyalty, and he begins to question everything. that’s the moment where batiatus sealed his own fate

#spartacus would have figured out sura's death eventually #but not as soon as he did #II quintus lentulus batiatus II general #II spartacus II general

[garland-on-thy-brow]

What is it with cringefail conspiracy Lentuli? I can name four:

Lentulus Sura, Dolabella, Lentulus Spinther quaestor 44 bce (the least cringefail in comparison to others), and Lentulus La clemenza di Tito.

The first one is Antony's stepfather; the second is Antony's whatever the relationship is called when you hate each other, conspire together, and may or may not have fucked. I do not know how Lentulus Sura was related to the Lentulus who adopted Dolabella, but a close kinship would be funny.

#more or less cringefail lentuli #publius cornelius dolabella #publius cornelius lentulus sura #publius cornelius lentulus spinther

[brother-emperors]

So they came to an agreement on the terms that had been voted, but those on the Capitol would not come down till they had secured the son of Lepidus and the son of Antony as hostages; then Brutus descended to Lepidus, to whom he was related, and Cassius to Antony, under promise of safety. And while they were dining together they naturally, at such a juncture, discussed a variety of topics and Antony asked Cassius: "Have you perchance a dagger under your arm even now?" To which he answered: "Yes, and a big one, if you too should desire to make yourself tyrant."

Cassius Dio 44.34

antony: is that a dagger or are you just happy to see me

cassius: why don't you fuck around and find out

OKAY more serious commentary: cassius and lentulus spinther had a coin with the image of libertas on one side minted in ~42 BCE! so the figure behind cassius in the last page is libertas. she has the pileus in one hand, but instead of a rod, she's holding a dagger.

there's a pomegranate in one of the table panels! I feel like antony would enjoy them. they feel kind of flirty, kind of threatening, a great way to send some kind of subtextual message to someone you low key have a narrative foils dynamic with

#it is a CRIME that brutus somehow ended up as the symbol for tyrannicide when my man cassius is RIGHT THERE #saying it with his whole chest!!!!!!! #gaius cassius longinus #mark antony #antony enjoyers this is for you. i spent a lot of time inking his hair #komiks tag #drawing tag #roman republic tag

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

The consular fasti for years 31-23 and 20-12 BCE. I've highlighted some of the most interesting names, in the order they appear:

Purple = Augustus ("Imp. Caesar") holding the consulship nine times in a row. If the top of the tablet hadn't broken off, we'd also see Mark Antony's name beside the first one.

Pink = Marcus Crassus' grandson and great-grandson.

Light blue = Cicero's son(!), who enjoyed announcing Antony's death to the Senate and outlawed any future Antonius from bearing the name "Marcus."

Red = Marcus Agrippa (his second and third consulships).

Yellow = Statilius Taurus, the second most important general of Augustus' early reign after Agrippa, and a former officer of Antony.

Orange = Marcus Brutus' half-brother(!)

Light green = L. Calpurnius Piso, an ardent Pompeian and opponent of Julius Caesar and Augustus(!)

Black = L. Domitius Ahenobarbus, grandfather of Emperor Nero.

Dark blue = M. Livius Drusus, adoptive brother of Livia.

White = The future Emperor Tiberius, and Quinctilius Varus of Teutoberg infamy.

Dark green = Sulpicius Quirinus, who later became administrator of Judea and held the census mentioned in the Gospel of Luke. Biblical scholars have tried to use this to date Jesus' birth.

I've put a transcription of the tablet under the cut. Punctuation and lowercase letters have been added for readability. "Suf." means a suffect (replacement) consul.

Left column:

31 - Imp. Caesar...Suf. M. Titius Cn. Pompeius

30 - Imp. Caesar, M. Licinius (Crassus), Suf. C. Antistius, M. Tullius, L. Saenius

29 - Imp. Caesar, Sex. Appuleius, Suf. Potitius Valerius

28 - Imp. Caesar, M. Agrippa

27 - Imp. Caesar, M. Agrippa

26 - Imp. Caesar, T. Statilius

25 - Imp. Caesar, M. Silanus

24 - Imp. Caesar, C. Norbanus

23 - Imp. Caesar, Cn. Piso

Right column:

20 - (cut off) M. Appuleius, P. Silius

19 - C. Sentius, Q. Lucretius, Suf. M. Vinicius

18 - P. Cornelius, Cn. Lentulus

17 - C. Furnius, C. Silanus

16 - L. Domitius, P. Scipio, Suf. L. Tarius

15 - M. Drusus, L. Libo

14 - M. Licinius, Cn. Cornelius

13 - Ti. Claudius, P. Quinctilius

12 - M. Valerius, P. Sulpicius, Suf. C. Valgius, C Caninius, L. Volusius

For more on these dudes, see Wikipedia's list of consuls.

#jlrrt speaks #consular fasti #archaeology #roman consuls #my edits

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday John David Hannah born 23rd April 1962 in East Kilbride.

Hannah attended Heathery Knowe Primary School then Claremont High School in East Kilbride and on leaving school was an apprentice electrician for four years. He gave up his work as an electrician after being accepted to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.

After a few years cutting his teeth in TV shows likeThe Bill, Boon and of course Taggart, Hannah finally got his ‘big break’ when he was cast as Matthew in Four Weddings and a Funeral, since then he has made a name for himself on both stage and screen. His most notable roles have been as Quintus Lentulus Batiatus in the American television series Spartacus, Rutger Simon in Damages and Jack Roper in New Street Law, film roles include the two “Mummy” movies, Tam McGraw in The Wee Man and James Hammerton in Sliding Doors. John also helped Edinburgh Zoo celebrate its centenary in 2013 by narrating a BBB documentary on the tourist attraction's history, getting up-close-and-personal with the zoo's furry residents by launching a newly refurbished koala enclosure.

Hannah was in the Slovakian film The Auschwitz Report in 2021, based on a true story it is about two prisoners of the infamous Extermination camp who manage to escape with details about the camp's operation including a label from a canister of the pesticide Zyklon-B.

More up to date he was in an excellent episode ofrthe hit series, post apocalyptic series The Last of Us in 2023. he also appeared in the most recent series of Black Mirror set in Scotland. called Loch Henry about a young couple travel to a sleepy Scottish town to start work on a genteel nature documentary - but find themselves drawn to a juicy local story involving shocking events of the past.

Look out for David in his latest movie, Damaged, which he costarswith Hollywood A-ist actor Samuel L Jackson, this too is filmed in several Scottish locations across the Edinburgh area. We see the Royal Mile, Edinburgh Castle, Calton Hill, the Forth Road Bridge and several other local spots like Bathgate and Livinston in the trailer, Gianni Capldi is also in the film.

He has several other projects on the go, so is not short of work.

#scotland #scottish #history #actor #television #theatre #cinema

[bruiisedpetals]

JOHN HANNAH & LUCY LAWLESS as QUINTUS LENTULUS BATIATUS & LUCRETIA in SPARTACUS: BLOOD AND SAND (2010)

#lucretia x batiatus #spartacus edit #period ship inspo #perioddramasonly #perioddramacentral #weloveperioddrama #lucy lawless edit #perioddramagif #period ship #spartacusedit #perioddramaedit #perioddramasource

[pedroam-bang]

Spartacus (1960)

#1960 #film #movie #Spartacus #Stanley Kubrick #Kirk Douglas #Peter Ustinov #Lentulus Batiatus #Laurence Olivier #Crassus #Marcus Licinius Crassus #Tony Curtis #Antoninus #Rome #Roman Republic #gladiator

[edwardscissorfeet]

honestly did mark antony dislike cato as well

#lentulus sura... u know...