#caesonia

[wyrmsfornerves]

hi i would die to read agrippina the younger's memoirs actually

#tagamemnon #ancient rome #roman history #agrippina the younger #caesonia #livia drusilla #messalina #i definitely haven't been sitting on a short comic about agrippina for a year now that i havent finished #also i just realized i mispelled drusilla's name whoops #wyrmsfornerves #my art

[thatshowthingstarted]

'Caligula Ring'

A sapphire Hololith (a ring carved from a single stone), one of the missing Arundel and Marlborough gems, once catalogued as belonging to the Emperor Caligula.

The 2,000-year-old sky-blue hololith has a face believed to be that of fourth wife Caesonia engraved into the bezel.

Courtesy: Wartski

#art #design #jewellery #jewelry #ring #sapphire #caligula #gold #hololith #hand carved #style #history #gem #caesonia #wartski

[recherchestetique]

A 2,000-year-old sapphire ring belonging to the Roman Emperor Caligula, depicting his wife Caesonia

#ring #sapphire #caligula #roman #emperor #anello #caesonia #jewel #2000 year #ancient jewelry

[illustratus]

A Roman Emperor (Claudius) by Lawrence Alma-Tadema

In AD 41, the debauched Roman emperor Caligula was murdered. Gratus, a member of the Praetorian, draws a curtain aside to reveal the terrified Claudius who is hailed as emperor on the spot. Beneath the herm in the background, lie the bodies of Caligula, his wife Caesonia, their young daughter and of a bystander. The blood stains on the herm denote the struggle that has transpired as well as the setting, the Hermaeum, an apartment in the Palace where Claudius had sought refuge.

#roman #emperor #praetorian guard #claudius #ancient rome #art #lawrence alma tadema #rome #praetorian #gratus #history #antiquity #romans #caligula #assassination #assassinated #caesonia #palace #europe #european #sir lawrence alma tadema

[you-belong-among-wildflowers]

Tragic Women ➝ Caligula's Wives and Rumored Lovers

"Tales of sex and violence ran rampant during Caligula's rule. The spoiled emperor deviated between two moods; rage and lust and it was said that no woman, not even another man's wife was safe from the emperor's sexual appetites. At least three of his wives were already married when Caligula laid eyes on the women forcibly marrying each one, only to punish them when they didn't live up to his expectations. It was rumored that only one woman would ever satisfy the turbulent Emperor, and that was his late sister, Julia Drusilla, whom he consecrated as a goddess when she died. "

#historicalwomendaily #perioddramaedit #perioddrama #perioddramasource #caligula #ancient rome #Junia Claudilla #Livia Orestilla #Lollia Paulina #Milonia Caesonia #Lollia Saturnina #Julia Drusilla #history #my post

[eyes-of-laura-mars]

#caligula #milonia caesonia #films #film stills

[saccharine-curious-4]

shrimp and dog :)

#sunsets adventures in the void #voidpet #im not using caesonia in battle #they just hang out in my memory #with my 32 other children

[thedeadthree]

back in your inbox again sorry lovely but 🖊🖊🖊 + illyria PEAS i rlly love her name 👁

HII AJ DEAR you are always more than welcome to pop into my inbox <3 WAHH ty ty her story, name and concept and design and everything of her means the world to mee!!!! ty ty for the ask!

SEND ME A 🖊 + I'LL GUSH ABOUT MY OCS

🖊 - oh the daughter of destiny my dear girl. her blood can be traced back to the time of the great empire of the dawn, as she is the descendant of the bloodstone emperor. the one who in belief was the bringer of the long night. so not absolutely not unas mother (and iovannas mother had foretold of her as well hehe <3) had seen of the birth of the child of prophecy, the eye of blood and the dragon of death, alluding to of course her heterochromia with one eye being a scarlet red matching her dragon ahzidal’s. And ahzidal having a dragons breath that was not of fire.... but a death miasma hence one of his names being the soulsiphon? her birth marked the summoning of the long winter, the death of the dragons.. and her and her descendants bearing the eye of blood will bring either salvation or ruin when the long night arrives.

🖊 - her mother iseul was the descendant of a scarlet emperor of the golden empire, who in the time of the valyrian freehold married a woman of an unknown house (that gives me IDEAS hehe <3 more ocs <3) and this is likely where illy had the natural inclination to be a dragonrider. her mom thwarted court life as long as possible taking to the seas under an assumed identity, which is where she would meet valarr. in seeing a prophecy, the same una and iovannas mothers foresaw, but with a sense it would be him to be the harbringer the father of this daughter of destiny. he uh..... annulled his marriage and left his wife and three children with a fourth on the way to fulfill the prophetic vision. for power or for reverence of prophecy or both who can say. after illy was born on lys, iseul sailed on her ship to vilemyr to the tower of myrwatch. the isle and seat of house ilmestys to hold a wedding for them (they had a wedding in lys but wished for one in westeros as well). UNFOORTUNATELY and much so, assassins attack the ship and she is fatally wounded. the ship is stranded outside of asshai by the shadow, and with her last breath she leaves the girl by the shore. illyria is found by nurellia and keeps a watchful eye on the girl until her mothers sworn protector, irus of norvos, finds the girl as this was her mothers dying wish. illy from there to age four would reside by the shadow. and strangely enough, not a soul bothered the girl! she would be found by irus at the side of her dragon ahzidal who would keep a watchful eye when the girl ventured into the corpse city. and that is how illy's origins began!

🖊 - following her harrowing-ish childhood, she was brought to vilemyr where she would be raised by irus and his wife (and valarr's older sister) vergelle. valarr was not to be revealed as the illy's dad for reasons reserved to be known by valarr alone ig nsakjns. and she was also brought to kings landing when vergelle was requested to teach the princess helaena how to understand dragon dreams (as she and her niece urgelle are both dragon dreamers!). she was childhood friends with aemond! illyria would leave westeros again at age six on the back of ahzidal. it is presumed that she sought out the three eyed raven if there was a three eyed raven that did exist in this time. when she returned to westeros in 129 ac she expected aemond to not remember her at all, and was surprised to learn he never did and in fact asked irus of her all the time when he and vergelle visited. they have been inseparable since. blah blah red string of fate blah blah twin flames and setting the world on fire for each other etc etc <3

#i could talk yalls ear off (as seen here WHEEEZE) about my baby girl and her history jhsn ajhsjk I ADOREE HER SO MUCH <3 #oc: illyria ilmestys #🌸: aj #jendoe #leg.asks #leg.ocs #leg.txt #THANK YOUUU DEARIE YOU <3 wahhhh this was the cutest to do! im for sure addicted to answering these its the funnest jksanaks #the ilmestys are known for not only being of high nobility in valyria and being dragon dreamers and sorcerers (namely shadowbinders hehe) #so the queen requested the lady vergelle (as urgie was like...... 3 askjnxjkasnk) to help her daughter understand dragon dreams #valarr's babies before illyria are as follows <3 : caerys / caesonia / urlyx (they/them) / and urgelle #those are her half siblings <3 thought she doesn't find that out until late sajnjnsj THANKS VALARR #urlyx is also the archon of whispers in the court of maekar hehe <3 they're the best and i love them <3 #the white streak in her hair is likely bc of her dad and one of her ancestors having valyrian ancestry and is merely a coincidence -> #and has little to do with her magic eye sjansj BUUUT it is a very inch resting coincidence that the strand is on the magic eye side <3 #ahzidal the archon my beloved askjynknak she was raised by nurellia for a bit and babysat by a dragon jahsnjs #shes so c*iri coded im yelling! i didn't realize that until i was writing the ilmestys timeline and then it HIT me sjnajnjs #though nurellia who is una's mother had raised her for a time (ish it was more like watching for her making sure she had a place to rest) #una and illy dont meet one another until the trial in the great hall at kings landing <3 and weren't much close following i think? #she was VEERY protective of the h*ightower babies and knew una wasn't just there to be a spymaster (her connection to iovanna double agent) #(though una goes ghost from the blacks after aeggy is hurt at the battle of rooks rest <3) #the grammar here is YIKES but aozjjzjx <3 baby girl ! #parent death tw #just in case <3

[shcherbatskya]

finished Camus’s Caligula, and actually there was an unforeseen 4th option of i just genuinely feel. p[fis[fidsodjipsg.

#To live Caesonia to live it’s the opposite of love! like HFIPFSIFOHSH #god... whatever though im normal #samael speaks

[amatesura]

Caligula (1979) | dir. Tinto Brass

#caligula #caesonia #malcolm mcdowell #helen mirren #tinto brass #ancient rome #*

[museum-of-artifacts]

Wonderful 2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, thought depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.

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[recycledmoviecostumes]

This huge crown was first used in Caligula in 1979, on Helen Mirren as Caesonia. It was seen again in The Tudors in 2010, on Tamzin Merchant as Katheryn Howard.

Costume Credit: Lucia

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#caligula #helen mirren #the tudors #tamzin merchant #costume drama #period drama

[delicatuscii-wasbella102]

 2000-Year-Old Sapphire Ring Presumably Belonging To Roman Emperor Caligula, Thought To Depict His Fourth Wife Caesonia

[eucanthos]

Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (12 - 41)

Roman emperor from 37 to 41 AD

Caligula marble bust, with Cuirass and Crown of oak leaves "corona civica." Photo: Sergey Sosnovskiy 2008. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen (inv. 1453) [edited img]

On January 24th, AD 41, Caligula, his wife Milonia Caesonia and his 2 y/o daughter, Julia Drusilla, were stabbed to death by officers of the Imperial Guard.

The assassins immediately proclaimed a new emperor: Claudius (the uncle). On the same day, portraits of Caligula were thrown into the Tiber. Three of the ca. 45 known portraits of Caligula were in fact found in that river. This cuirass bust is one of them.

Caligula’s brief reign and life is the fascinating story of a boy-emperor, who, in the early years of the Roman Empire, tried to make Rome an absolute monarchy but failed. A reckless ruler against conservatism, tarnished by his enemies as a madman, tyrant, pervert – one of the worst Roman emperors.

Member of a revered family, Caligula was wildly popular. Unlike his paranoid uncle Tiberius, Emperor Caligula was a charismatic and benevolent young man. Immediately after taking the throne, he ended treason trials, granted amnesty to the exiled, and abolished unfair taxes...

Caligula: 18 Facts on the “Mad” Roman Emperor - The Collector, Aug 16, 2023

https://ancientrome.ru/art/artworken/img.htm?id=2172

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cuirassed_bust_of_Caligula,found_in_Rome,_AD_37-41,_Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptotek,_Copenhagen(13192017765).jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/roger_ulrich/5037962882

https://www.thecollector.com/caligula/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/5wyght/marble_bust_of_the_roman_emperor_caligula_31/?rdt=44964

#Caligula #history #marble #bust #masterpiece #sculpture #portrait #politics #Roman #nobility #royal #young

[a-book-is-a-garden]

“Oh, Caesonia, I knew that men felt anguish, but I didn’t know what that word, anguish, meant. Like everyone else I fancied it was a sickness of the mind — no more. But no, it’s my body that’s in pain. Pain everywhere, in my chest, in my legs and arms. Even my skin is raw, my head is buzzing, I feel like vomiting. But worst of all this queer taste in my mouth. Not blood, or death, or fever, but a mixture of all three. I’ve only to stir my tongue, and the world goes black, and everyone looks… horrible. How hard, how cruel it is, this process of becoming a man!”

- Albert Camus, “Caligula”

#Caligula #Albert Camus #Quote #Play #Literature #Absurdism #Existentialism #20th Century

[eyes-of-laura-mars]

#milonia caesonia #caligula #helen mirren #films