#quo vadis

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A face in the crowd: Times Square, December 31, 1951.

Photo: Ernst Haas via Getty Images/ABC News

#vintage New York #1950s #Ernst Haas #New Year's Eve #b&w photography #Dec. 31 #31 Dec. #Times Square #Quo Vadis #vintage New Year's Eve #New Year's Eve Times Square

[balkanparamo]

Quo Vadis-I, 2020. Gerhard Rasser, (1958).

#art #quo vadis #painting #gerhard rasser

[gatabella]

Elizabeth Taylor, Quo Vadis premiere, 1951

#elizabeth taylor #quo vadis

[gamevecanti]

Two-page magazine ad for "Quo Vadis" (Saturn).

#video game #import game #sega saturn #haruhiko mikimoto #quo vadis #クォヴァディス

[costumeloverz71]

Lygia (Deborah Kerr) Blue beaded gown.. Quo Vadis (1951).. Costume by Herschel McCoy.

#lygia #deborah kerr #quo vadis #herschel mccoy

[emperornero]

włożyłem w to całe serce i duszę

#robiłem to kurwa zamiast powtarzać polski idę płakać #alternatywny tytuł to petroniusz wyjaśnia skibidi toilet a marek tępy dalej nie rozumie #.mp4 #quo vadis #< żebym nie zgubił potem.

[therealrichardpapen]

Can I have some classic lit recs…make me feel like Henry please <3

Oh, this would be my pleasure, my dear friend!

Caligula by Albert Camus (It's a play about Caligula)

Oresteia by Aeschylus

Cicero

Coriolanus and Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare. Coriolanus speaks about men's hubris and how pridefullness brings your downfall, while Titus Andronicus, well, I'll let you discover it by yourself:))

Marcus Aurelius, amazing works regarding stoicism

Seneca, letters to Lucilius, another great stoic

Petrarca's letters to classical authors

Ovid, the roman writer exiled by Augustus to the Black Sea, at Tomis, part of the Kingdom of Thrace (now Constanța, Romania), where he kept writing.

Bacchae by Euripides

Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz (a nobel awarded historical fiction about the life in Nero's Rome, written by a Polish writer)

Sappho, but I suggest finding a good translation with footnotes as her works have been barely maintained, and some of her poems are literally one word long.

Beyond good and evil by Nietzsche

Crime and Punishment by Dostoievsky (I won't add more as I recently conducted a full ass campaign here on how and why this book is worth it)

E.M. Cioran, A short history of decay, The demiurge, The troubles with being born. He is a bit of a nihilist. Romanian philosopher that wrote mostly in French

Machiavelli, The prince. This should be a good introduction into Machiavellism

The sacred and profane by M. Eliade is also worth a try

I believe there's no point in mentioning the Iliad and the Odyssey since everybody knows them by now. Hope you'll have fun!

#classic lit recs #dark academia #basically a lit student #the secret history #Dostoievsky #quo vadis #seneca #marcus aurelius #caligula #niccolo machiavelli #ovid #philosophy #classics

[proste-a-piekne]

😍 Aziraphale looking at Crowley🤝 Eunice looking at Petronius 😍

#dobry omen #good omens #aziracrow #quo vadis #quo vadis (1951)

[peonymoss]

Fic Update: "Quo Vadis", Chapter 67

An “Agent Carter” * prequel: How Daniel Sousa got that lead, and his long journey through recovery to the SSR.

This chapter: "Adjustment"

#agent carter #agent carter fic #daniel sousa #peggysous #my fic #quo vadis #quo vadis meta

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#quo vadis #henryk sienkiewicz #historical #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

[love-pinups]

Marina Berti in Quo Vadis.

#marina berti #old hollywood #classic hollywood #pin up #beautiful #cheesecake #pinupgirl #classic beauty #sexy #1950’s #1950s women #made in italy #italian beauty #beauttiful girls #beautiful women #quo vadis

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Petronius, in his dying letter to Nero:

"[...] Do not suppose, I pray, that I am offended because thou didst kill thy mother, thy wife, and thy brother; that thou didst burn Eome and send to Erebus all the honest men in thy dominions. No, grandson of Chronos. Death is the inheritance of man; from thee other deeds could not have been expected. But to destroy one's ear for whole years with thy poetry, to see thy belly of a Domitius on slim legs whirled about in a Pyrrhic dance; to hear thy music, thy declamation, thy doggerel verses, wretched poet of the suburbs, — is a thing surpassing my power, and it has roused in me the wish to die. Eome stuffs its ears when it hears thee; the world reviles thee. I can blush for thee no longer, and I have no wish to do so. The howls of Cerberus, though resembling thy music, will be less offensive to me, for I have never been the friend of Cerberus, and I need not be ashamed of his howling. Farewell, but make no music; commit murder, but write no verses; poison people, but dance not; be an incendiary, but play not on a cithara. This is the wish and the last friendly counsel sent thee by the — Arbiter Elegantiae."

— Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, 1895–96

#henryk sienkiewicz #quo vadis #literature #classic literature #polish literature #historical novel #spilled ink #quotes #book quotes #literary quotes #excerpts #book excerpt #lit #books #books and libraries #prose #petronius #letter

[citizenscreen]

Director Mervyn LeRoy with the cast of QUO VADIS (1951)

#mervyn leroy #quo vadis

[gatabella]

Elizabeth Taylor at the premiere after-party for the film Quo Vadis, Los Angeles, 1951

#elizabeth taylor #quo vadis

[ewa-jednak-chce-spac]

Hello there! ;3 Chciałam szybko wpaść i Ci serdecznie podziękować za Twoje posty odnośnie Quo Vadis, a zwłaszcza te o Petroniuszu i Eunice. Bardzo podniosła mnie na duchu wiadomość, że nie jestem jedyną osobą, która w roku 2023 nadal myśli i chce dzielić się swoimi przemyśleniami na temat tego dzieła, jak również tej konkretnej pary :3 Gdybym nie miała szczęścia napotkać na Twoją ankietę mogłabym nie mieć śmiałości żeby teraz publikować własne posty na temat Petroniunice ;3 Jeszcze raz dzięki!:3

Proszę bardzo :D Cieszę się, że ośmielam ludzi do tworzenia fanowskiego contentu dla rzeczy, które mają go mało :)

#quo vadis #petroniunice #polish literature #literature #poland #polish language

[pulpsandcomics2]

Quo Vadis

#movie posters #lobby cards #quo vadis