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dieletztepanzerhexe · 5 months

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This first- or second-century glass statuette of Venus has very thick weathering layers which have been lost in some areas.

#glass #ancient glass #glass art #venus #ancient rome #tw ancient rome #my upl #artefact #archaeology #glass illness #glass disease #glass corrosion #glass sculpture

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strawlessandbraless · 1 year

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The Ides of March coming for you 🥗 🔪

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rifleman787742 · 6 days

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one of those hellenistic pagan folks had a meltdown over my page i drew this for them ^_^ i love ancient greece 2

#hetalia #freaktalia #hws rome #hws ancient rome #gore #cw gore #tw gore

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quagquag · 5 months

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my redraw of this ancient roman gem with a grasshopper playing the lyre carved onto it

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#nero draws #ancient rome #ancient history #redraw #bugs tw #bug #grasshopper #I LOVE THIS LITTLE GUY HES SO ME #should i use anthro tags #anthro bugs #bug people #ok [thumbs up]#tagamemnon

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camryns-moodboards · 1 month

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Watch out, Caesar!

#thought this one was also cool #my moodboards #aesthetic board #julius caesar #caesar #ides of march #history #history aesthetic #history moodboard #ancient aesthetic #ancient rome #et tu brute #brutus #tw knife #rome #march 15 #moodboard with theme #ancient roma

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emperornero · 7 months

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good news everyone ! i gave up on doing homework and im looking for insects named after ancient romans and other ancient historical figures related to roman history. turns out theres a species of weevil named after hannibal!

and its glorious wikipedia description: "A species from Tunisia, named after the daring Punic general Hannibal. Hannibal was best known for his spectacular, but also costly campaign with 40 war elephants in 218 BC from Spain, France across the Alps to Italy. In 202 BC, the Roman Empire was finally victorious over Hannibal at Carthage (Carthage, today part of the Tunisian capital Tunis). It was only with the victory over Hannibal that Rome gained supremacy in the western Mediterranean. The city of Carthage was finally razed to the ground in the Third Punic War (146 BC), the inhabitants expelled or taken into slavery by Rome. Let us hope that the last Ceratonia forests on Jebel Zaghouan, and with them the new species Onyxacalles hannibali, will not meet a similar fate in the progressive destruction of the last intact biotopes in central Tunisia!""

#THE LAST SENTENCE ??#BUG PUNIC WAR REFERENCE #ancient rome #bugs tw #weevil

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hogs-in-your-house · 2 months

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otho

this was supposed to be similar to byzantine iconography but oh well paint markers have minds of their own.

#otho #marcus salvius otho #emperor otho #tagamemnon #ancient rome #stabbing tw #idk. tagging it to be safe

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bewaretheidiotsofmarch · 1 month

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They came back to take a photo 📸

Redraw of one of my Ides of March artworks from 2018

Characters are Brutus, Cassius, and Casca. Caesar doesn't count here😏

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duxfemina · 4 months

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I'm stating this in relation to ancient Roman history but I'm sure it applies to any time and place where slavery was/is prevalent so if you're triggered by discussions of slavery and the R word (rhymes with grape) maybe just scroll on...

So the Roman view of slavery distilled down to its simplest is; an enslaved person has no agency.

So that view established it's an appalling truth that slaves both male and female have absolutely no control over access to their bodies. Rape happened a lot in the ancient world as a general rule: sieges, raids, war, no legal repercussions if you were a low status victim etc. but it will literally make you a little ill when you factor enslaved people into that picture. Combine the overwhelming misogyny and entitlement of the classes that owned the most slaves and the general over inflated sense of self the Romans possessed and you know it though you hate to think about but they raped their slaves a lot and thought nothing of it. And if they didn't personally they didn't really make a fuss if someone else did. It's gross but it's true.

Now to the point here that blows my mind HOW MANY SLAVES WERE THE SPITTING IMAGE OF THEIR MOTHER'S RAPIST? Like we know the children of slaves were born as slaves. So here are the female victims giving birth (yes there were abortives and contraceptives in the ancient world but how much access did enslaved women have to those things??) To children who will grow up in the house of their mother's abuser. Another generation of property for their owner. And how can the person who owns these people look them in the eye day after day watching them grow up knowing that that's their kid...

Like I know we can't judge the past by modern standards of morality especially the ancient past but to me it's just sort of morbidly fascinating like watching a train wreck. Like this was NOT an uncommon thing. It couldn't be. Not with how the system of slavery worked in ancient Rome. So like how many times is "so-and-so's freedman" who Plutarch or Tacitus is talking about really in fact their son, or brother, or cousin? Or even the unfreed people. Like how often was some nobleman being raised around his enslaved half-siblings? How often did a child by a slave get sold off and lost to history.

For all we know some people in Crassus' army could have been not very distant relations to some of the people in Spartacus' army.

The ancient world is smaller than you think and ten times as disturbing. It's all not just kinda possible but VERY possible and quite likely.

#ancient rome #roman history #roman empire #how often do you think about the roman empire #ancient history #marcus licinius crassus #crassus #spartacus #slavery #tw: slavery #tw: rape #the ancient world is a mess #slaves #enslaved peoples #slavery in ancient rome #rome #roman freedmen #freedmen

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heartsbreaking · 6 days

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i got that 'idk where i fit in the rpc' dog in me again

if y'all have any good vibes for this or for finals season send them my way because the tasks are descending upon me and the mental illness came with em

#negativity tw #nico stfu #gonna nap and then start making my flash cards for my ancient rome test #*[ OOC ] . . . a treatise on the effects of caffeine

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lionofchaeronea · 1 year

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The Dying Seneca, Peter Paul Rubens, 1612-13

#art #art history #Rubens #Peter Paul Rubens #historical painting #ancient history #Ancient Rome #Roman Empire #Seneca #Seneca the Younger #Baroque #Baroque art #Flemish Baroque #Flemish art #17th century art #oil on canvas #Alte Pinakothek #death tw #suicide tw

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some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat · 5 months

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I saw a comment on some post yesterday saying "don't blame Christianity the Romans did this too" like uh yeah who do you think taught the Christians? Just cuz the Romans did something doesn't mean all of human history is littered with it but I bet the Romans would love knowing you still think they were normal and a good standard to compare the rest of humanity to

#sfw #personal #ok to reblog #history #I'm no historian and should a historian have a comment I'd love to hear it but using my current knowledge and understanding...#man I hate Rome and its lingering legacy #cw religion mention #tw religion mention #(the following tags are for my own organization and if tumblr's changed it so this post shows up in the global tags I'm sorry)#Ancient Rome #ancient history #Christianity #cultural Christianity #human history #humans

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creative-chaos-apparently · 9 months

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Cleopatra & Marcus Antonius