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The Emperors of Rome, 27 BCE - 285 CE

An infographic depicting the timeline of the emperors of Rome from the ascension of Caesar Augustus (Octavian) in 27 BCE until the end of the Crisis of the Third Century and the onset of the Tetrarchy under Diocletian “Jovius” in 285 CE through war, peace, crisis of succession and power vacancies.

Image by Simeon Netchev

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The Seikilos epitaph is the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world. The song, the melody of which is recorded, alongside its lyrics, in ancient Greek musical notation, was found engraved on a 1st or 2nd century CE tombstone (a stele) from the Hellenistic town of Tralles near present-day Aydın, Turkey, near Ephesus. While older music with notation exists (for example the Hurrian songs), all of it is fragmentary; the Seikilos epitaph is unique in that it is a complete composition. The inscription is translated below:

“While you live, shine have no grief at all life exists only for a short while and Time demands his due.

I am a tombstone, an image. Seikilos placed me here as a long-lasting sign of deathless remembrance.”

You can listen to a recording of the Seikilos Song here: https://youtu.be/9RjBePQV4xE

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Cusco

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Illustrations from The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Warwick Goble (1912)

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Photo:: T.S.Eliot

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Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living. Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment And not the lifetime of one man only But of old stones that cannot be deciphered. There is a time for the evening under starlight, A time for the evening under lamplight (The evening with the photograph album). Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning. T S Eliot

(Center of Applied Jungian Studies)

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'Tempio della Concordia,' 1955,

Valley of the Temples, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy,

Photo by Konrad Helbig

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Temple of Athena Nike

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Reconstruction of the tholos at Epidaurus by Alphonse Defrasse; Henri Lechat

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The Temple of Poseidon in Cape Sounion, Attica, Greece. Photo by @giatrakos_chris [Instagram]. 

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The Tholos of Delphi, Greece

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Athenian silver tetradrachm, Greece, 450-400 BC

from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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Temple of Poseidon, Cape Sounion.  Photo: catrin_pl (IG)

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Relief representing Marcus Aurelius and the members of the imperial family sacrificing before temple of Jupiter on Capitol. Created circa 176-180. Photo by Jean-Pol GRANDMONT at the Capitoline Museums of Rome, Italy.

This relief showing the ritual that roman called Taurobolium, the sacrifice of a bull to the god Jupiter offered by the emperor.

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pre-1936 picture of the Roman Forum. Center- concial shape: great image of the Meta Sudans, fountain, which survived until destroyed by order of Mussolini.

Colosseo, Arco di Costantino e Meta.

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It still works

S.P.Q.R : Senatvs PopvlvsQve Romanvs - the Senate and the Roman People) AQVA MARCIA (Aqua Marcia) :Water of Marcius (who built the aqueduct that brings the water to that fountain)

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