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love this

I regret to inform y'all that Octavian fucked. A lot. To the point that even Mark Antony called him out on it.

Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 69 (lol)

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Just in case anyone has not seen this cute medieval drawing of the ides of March

#ides of march #julius ceaser #i know i missed the party but merry ides of march #ancient rome #medieval drawing #medieval #brutus

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platonic dialogues are just like.

socrates: massive chunk of text

the other guy: everything you say is beautiful and true.

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i’m up for it

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.

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Dixon, T. (2020). What is the history of anger a history of? Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 4(1), 1-34.

u r mostly right but I don’t think that Seneca’s work are in the same cultural linage with the Greek predecessors. Just check how he depicted Medea killing her sons in his version of Medea…

#Seneca #Ancient Rome #Ancient Greece #Medea

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Sumillera, R. G. (2020). Political Medicine in Early Modern Spain, or How Physicians Counsel the King. Sixteenth Century Journal, 51(2).

I'm not so sure about the medical metaphor used by natural philosophers - or, more precisely, medical humanists - in the late 16th century. I'm still looking into it. For now, I believe they are first and foremost physicians or philosophers. This represents their (social) identity. Then, of course they can counsel the princes if given the opportunity, using the metaphor that compares the country (in need of remedies) to a (unbalanced) body.

#16th century #medical humanists #early modern #early modern physicians #Juan Huarte

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I looked at the calendar and realised what day it was. And it reminds me of walking into the British Museum two summers ago and discovering that the one coin with this guy's portrait was not on display.

I guess all I have to say is “Felix Natalis.”

#mark antony #ancient rome #spqr #1st century BC #I feel a strange mixture of love and hatred towards this guy but whatever #He’s certainly a man of charm isn’t it

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Keitt, A. (2013). The devil in the Old World: anti-superstition literature, medical humanism and preternatural philosophy in early modern Spain. Angels, demons and the New World, 15-39.

When I read Examen de ingenios para las ciencias written by Juan Huarte de San Juan (1529-1588) it strikes me that he seems to have absorbed the idea of elevating soul (& poetry as a divine frenzy) proposed by Marsilio Ficino. In Huarte’s theory the faculty of imagination is related to the quality heat in Galen’s temperament theory. It is heat that brings to imagination a feature of promptnesses, and establishes a direct link between imagination and (artistic) creation.

In page 109 of the English version Huarte says: “Three degrees of heat, and this quality so extended (as we have before expressed) breeds an utter loss of the understanding.”

…which, is the key to poetry writing. I am glad that there is a paper confirming my guess. (And as we know how much Ficino loves the concept of melancholy.)

#Juan Huarte de San Juan #Juan Huarte #Marsilio Ficino #16c Spanish Philosophy #History of Psychology #16th century #Imagination #Poetry writing #Melancholy

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u r right

The worst part about Crowley getting dragged back to Hell in 1827 is that he would’ve thrived in the ridiculous upcoming 1830s fashions

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love you guys sooooo much🥺🥰✨💖

Love what a mess 15th century Florence was. Lorenzo pretty sure comparing the relationship between God and the Soul as a husband sodomizing his wife is a first class ticket to getting into serious trouble with Rome.

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💖💖💖💗💗💗

CESARE & LUCREZIA BORGIA, the borgias (2011 - 2013)

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I realy love these scenes (again?) and I really do believe that hbo rome has grasped the exact subtlety in the relationship between Caesar & Antony. That's why I love these scenes💞

You’ll make a lot of men very angry with your Gauls and your Celts and your plebs and such. l’ll have to double your guard.

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so gorgeous🥺

up to the elbows, and besmear our swords

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I!! Love this one!!!

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lmao

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i really love these scenes

“You look just right as you are. Like Leonidas at Thermopylae.”