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brother-emperors · 9 months

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--or perhaps,' continues Octavian. 'You're angry that I've outplayed you at your own game because you were too busy fucking in your old master's house to notice anything that was going on around you.'

He smiles suddenly, bright and wide. 'Enjoy the party, Marcus.'

this scene takes place sometime after philippi, and was originally just some historical fiction I was writing last year for fun focusing on antony, octavian, and agrippa. then I got stressed out watching the new season of a show, started drawing while it played, and ended up turning it into a short comic lmao

the dialogue in this scene is referencing this bit out of Suetonius:

In early youth he incurred the reproach of sundry shameless acts. Sextus Pompey taunted him with effeminacy; Mark Antony with having earned adoption by his uncle through unnatural relations; and Lucius, brother of Mark Antony, that after sacrificing his honour to Caesar he had given himself to Aulus Hirtius in Spain for three hundred thousand sesterces, and that he used to singe his legs with red-hot nutshells, to make the hair grow softer. What is more, one day when there were plays in the theatre, all the people took as directed against him and loudly applauded the following line, spoken on the stage and referring to a priest of the Mother of the Gods, as he beat his timbrel: "See'st how a wanton's finger sways the world?"

Suetonius Augustus 68

what a fun group of people!! they should all eat each other

#octavian #mark antony #komiks tag #roman empire tag #WOW it's been a minute since i got to use that tag #the bit of my own writing (technically all of this is my own writing but in the text part of the post) is referencing #some shit about antony letting the conspirators go ahead and assassinate caesar for his own ends #which is fun to think about bc octavian proceeded to pull a similiar move but better #the gods favor one of you for sure lmao #i favor neither of you except for where i sided with octavian bc his narrative potential appeals to me more

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sekihamsterdiestwice · 8 months

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Posted with commissioner's permission

Augustus fell into a dream which had never happened after Agrippa’s death.

-Gaius, I wish to sail back to Apollonia… -Yes, my love, we would be there, right away.

#roman empire tag #commission #ancient rome #octavian #marcus agrippa #rome

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ghoul-haunted · 1 year

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Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest, Adrian Murdoch

#lmaooooo #roman empire tag #book club tag

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keepcalmandcarriefischer · 2 months

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I mean, I don't want to sound stupid, but I always assumed that the Ancient Romans were mammals

#enter tags here #roman empire

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daenerysoftarth · 7 months

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“Stranger, what I say is short. Stand and read over it. This is the hardly beautiful tomb of a beautiful woman. Her parents called her Claudia. She loved her husband with all her heart. She had two sons, one of whom she leaves on earth, the other she placed under it. With pleasant conversing but respectable gait she cared for her home and made wool. I have spoken. Move along.”

Roman epitaph CIL 06.15346

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#idk something about that I have spoken. move along #it got me #epitaph #roman epitaph #roman empire #history #quotes #idk what to tag this as I’m trying to cover bases #my posts #graveyard #words #headstone #ancient history #Ancient Rome #1k

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katabay · 4 months

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There was a strange thing about Cei: nine nights and nine days could he hold his breath under water; nine nights and nine days could he go without sleep. No doctor could heal a wound from Cei’s sword. Cei couldn’t be beaten. He could be as tall as the tallest tree in the forest when he wanted. There was another strange thing about him: when the rain was heaviest, a hand’s breadth in front of his hand and a hand’s breadth behind would be as dry as what was in his hand itself, so great was his body-heat; and when the cold was heaviest on his companions, he would be their kindling to light a fire.

Culhwch and Olwen, trans. Craig Davis

guess who finally got to read Linda Gowans' Cei and the Arthurian Legend! new thoughts have been unlocked, ideas are coming together! I also got my hands on some scans from medieval armor reference books, which is also essential to the ideas

the 'unless god etc' quote is from Pa Gur/What Man Guards The Gate

When he drank from a horn, he would drink for four; when he came into battle, he would kill like a hundred. Unless God himself should perform it, Cei could not be killed.

(trans. Craig Davis)

ko-fi⭐ bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost ⭐ cara.app

#arthuriana #generic medieval tag #sir kay #WAHOO (exhausted) ye haw #i spent too long looking at illuminated manuscripts for this. also combined it with decorative elements from the roman empire #no particular reason other than that i have one of those dover artist books that has a bunch of roman empire #design elements and i think they're pretty #WAIT NO MY ARTHURIANA TAG IS #knights knights knights!#there we go

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lover-of-mine · 10 days

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And the heart I know I'm breakin' is my own...

#911 #buddie #911edit #buddieedit #911verse #911 spoilers #911 on fox #911 fox #911 abc #eddie diaz #evan buckley #my edit #otp: you don't need to pretend with me #usercam #I cant believe i dont have a taylor tag #eddie breaking eye contact here is my roman empire #so i will leave this here and run for the hills

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afmis · 3 months

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The DSMP was such an incredible piece of media, one with SO much potential and something I genuinely have never seen before. It was so UNIQUE and it kills me every day that it just went to waste like that. It’s my roman empire fr

#the dsmp was my roman empire #let’s make that a tag guys #dsmp #dream smp #god it was so good #I wish it hadn’t ended tbh 😭

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energeticwarrior · 3 months

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Safe to say the best night of my life :,)

And thanks to @goldenhowell I realized I just met Dan on the anniversary of the Phil Video that (predicted dan) gave me my url that I so carefully chose seven years ago😭😭😭😭😭😭

#my god if that isn’t invisible string theory idk what is #this entire trip will be my Roman Empire for the rest of my damn life #happy tag #mine #dan howell #daniel howell #wad #we’re all doomed #amazingphil

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harrenhalyuri · 2 months

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AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER?

the godfather part II (1974) / house of the dragon (2022) / the godfather part I (1972) / fire & blood: 300 years before a game of thrones (2018) / the godfather part III (1990) / the rise of the dragon: an illustrated history of the targaryen dynasty (2022) / a song of ice and fire calendar (2021) / the godfather part II (1974)

#aemond targaryen #aegon ii targaryen #aegon the elder #aemond one eye #house of the dragon #hotdedit #webweaving #web weaving #team green #targaryensource #hotd #ewan mitchell #tom glynn carney #the godfather #this is my roman empire btw #love their dynamic. hope they beat each other to death with hammers next season #one art tag to rule them all

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brother-emperors · 6 months

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a rejected idea from the Second Triumvirate novel I keep writing

at one point, I wanted Antony's rescue of Octavian to mirror the execution of Antyllus but the event that inspired the whole idea (as recorded by Appian) is too fun for that kind of wholesale reinvention

Octavian with his friends and a few attendants came into the forum intending to intercede with the people and to show the unreasonableness of their complaints. As soon as he made his appearance they stoned him unmercifully, and they were not ashamed when they saw him enduring this treatment patiently, and offering himself to it, and even bleeding from wounds. When Antony learned what was going on he came with haste to his assistance. When the people saw him coming down the Via Sacra they did not throw stones at him, since he was in favour of a treaty with Pompeius, but they told him to go away. When he refused to do so they stoned him also. He called in a larger force of troops, who were outside the walls. As the people would not allow him even so to pass through, the soldiers divided right and left on either side of the street and the forum, and made their attack from the narrow lane, striking down those whom they met. The people could no longer find ready escape on account of the crowd, nor was there any way out of the forum. There was a scene of slaughter and wounds, while shrieks and groans sounded from the housetops. Antony made his way into the forum with difficulty, and snatched Octavian from the most manifest danger, in which he then was, and brought him safe to his house.

Appian, Civil War, 5.68

HOWEVER. I am DEEPLY enamored by the idea of Antony showing up as a rescuer but for a brief moment looks like such a threat (along with horrible foreshadowing visuals) that I decided to memorialize the original idea as an illustration before I throw it out and get to rewriting it (I’ll probably keep some version of the original thought in for a good old fashioned nightmare dream sequence tho)

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost

#im going to adapt appian 5.68 into a comic for sure tho. antony pulling octavian up and going 'oh. they got your face #shame! its one of the few things i actually like about you.'#octavian #mark antony #komiks tag #roman empire tag #drawing tag

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ghoul-haunted · 1 year

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Nero Reconsidered, Edward Champlin

#illustration ideas. assembling in my mind right now. the terrible family dynasty sure is something!#book club tag #roman empire tag

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dabadoowop · 5 months

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a roman guy walks into a bar and asks for 5 beers while holding up two fingers. when the beers are almost done, he holds up 2 more fingers, saying, ‘no, wait, i want 7’. he then proceeds to be stabbed by everyone in the bar because it isn’t a bar, it’s ancient rome during the ides of march.

#roman empire #im so funny #i wanted to make a smart little poetry blog but im not good at words so this is it #:)#what else can i tag here #roman empire jokes #ides of march

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syrupsyche · 25 days

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🛌 Enjolras and Combeferre :3

🛏: two or more characters sleeping next to each other