#carthage

[latin-literature-tourney]

Latin Literature Tournament - Round 1

Propaganda under the cut!

Tacitus Propaganda:

Balances really grand and expressive tone with a really concise and truncated style, which makes for some really dynamic passages

Reading Tacitus lowkey feels like watching a really good prestige period drama

One of my colleagues used to call Tacitus "Daddy." I didn't really get it, and then I saw this statue. And you know what? Yeah. Daddy.

Cato Propaganda:

Wrote extensively on how to make better wine, helping keep Rome stocked with the good stuff for centuries

He's got a piece of the fucking moon named after him, guys. The moon.

Moreover, Carthage must be destroyed

#tagamemnon #tacitus #cato #cato the elder #latin #latin literature #latin literature tournament #tournament polls #tumblr polls #bracket #history #agriculture #wine #rhetoric #carthage

[beautiful-basque-country]

Imagine setting your fantasy kingdom in a real area where you can use all this as inspiration for your characters...

... but you go and create something as plain, generic, and soulless as this:

Well done, Disney!

#walt disney #disney #Wish #Wish 2023 #Disney wish #Off topic #Kinda #Morocco #carthage #Tartessos #Amazigh people #Al andalus

[memories-of-ancients]

Rock crystal statuette of a lion, Carthage, 4th-3rd century BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

#history #antiquities #art #ancient history #ancient art #carthage

[richo1915]

#I don’t remember this in any of Polybius or Appian’s or Livy’s histories #the punic wars #carthago delenda est #carthage #hannibal #pooh bear #polybius #appian #livy #rome #roman #spqr

[blackcat-brazil]

A collection of Roman, Greek and Carthaginian masks.

#masks #ancient greece #roman empire #ancient rome #carthage #history #ancient history #antiquities

[illustratus]

Hannibal Crossing the Alps by Francisco Goya

#hannibal barca #hannibal #alps #italy #art #francisco goya #antiquity #carthaginian #carthaginians #carthage #punic wars #second punic war #rome #ancient rome #ancient carthage #roman #romans #history #europe #european #mediterranean #cisalpine gaul #roman republic

[webdiggerxxx]

꧁★꧂

#precious moments #statue #angel #cherub #cute #kawaii #fish #garden #precious moments chapel #chapel #carthage #missouri #flickr #oldweb #old web

[beatricecenci]

Rutilio Manetti (Italian, 1571-1639)

Didone ed Enea

#Baroque #Rutilio Manetti #Italian Art #Art #Carthage #Tunisia #Mediterranean

[romegreeceart]

Carthaginian silver shekel

* 237-209 BCE

* Altes Museum, Berlin

Source: Sailko, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

#Carthage #3rd century BCE #silver #coin #ancient #elephant #animal #Altes Museum #Sailko

[tiny-librarian]

“For Rome, who had never condescended to fear any nation or people, did in her time fear two human beings; one was Hannibal, and the other was a woman.”

#cleopatra #cleopatra vii #hannibal barca #ancient egypt #carthage #long live the queue

[mioritic]

Detail of a mosaic showing a ring of dead thrushes tied with a string

From a dining room at Thysdrus, near present-day El-Djem, Tunisia

3rd century AD

#mosaic #tunisia #roman #carthage #thysdrus

[jacobpking]

Who are some great historical figures from African, Persian and Middle-Eastern Antiquity?

Hidden gems or legends are welcome

I wanna do some learning👀

#ancient history #ancient persia #ancient egypt #ancient africa #babylon #history tag #antiquity #bronze age #historical #history #ancient assyria #carthage

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

Roman stereotypes of Phoenicians crack me up because half of my family is Phoenician (more precisely, Lebanese). They will happily tell you that it's not piracy and duplicity, it's an entrepreneurial spirit, but if they were pirates they would be very good at it, and Rome deserved it anyway. And they'd never commit fraud, just smuggling and tax evasion. Hypothetically. And also that Rome's alphabet ultimately derives from the Phoenician one, so who really won the Punic Wars, hmm?

(Erich Gruen, "Romans and Others," in A Companion to the Roman Republic, ed. Nathan Rosenstein and Robert Morstein-Marx)

#^ all that is directly based on things my grandparents have said or done #phoenicia #jlrrt reads #erich gruen #carthage #just roman memes

[unteriors]

Alexandria Street, Carthage, New York.

#Carthage #New York

[tsalmu]

Various Carthagian/Punic Coins (5th-3rd c. BCE)

#carthage #carthagian #punic #phoenician #phoenicia #coin #coins #horse #angel #tree #tree of life #pegasus #nike #genius

[illustratus]

Hannibal recognises the head of his brother Hasdrubal

by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

#hannibal barca #hasdrubal barca #art #giovanni battista tiepolo #carthaginians #romans #carthaginian #roman #ancient rome #rome #italy #carthage #history #antiquity #second punic war #punic wars #italia #europe #meditteranean #hannibal #hasdrubal