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well that was nice of him

#tagamemnon #roman history #real upstanding guy tbh #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

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NEW INFO NEW INFO NEW INFOOOOO

#YOOOO????

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sorry i know i've complained about this a lot but if there was One thing i wish people on here would grasp wrt roman approaches to mythology. is the centuries and centuries of italian mythic tradition & transmission that existed here. like a lot of these myths were being told & transformed & developed local version before rome even existed. these guys were trading materials & traditions with the greeks since like the bronze age. a person in rome might of have heard a lot of these stories as a kid from their grandmother who heart it from her grandmother, who heard it from hers etc etc. they were living changing myths in italy! with their own variations even! so a roman author, while they DO extensively use greek literature, is nevertheless working off something that is a deeply embedded part of their culture too. to act like these ideas were just transplanted directly from 5th century athens to 1st century rome, and especially as if greece had the oral tradition while rome was purely literary, is silly

#REAL #me digging through scraps of naevius for hints of the story we know was told #but can only grasp in fragments. like a dream #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

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when the academic article is so good it has you giggling and kicking your feet

#REAL #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

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The Judgment, focusing not on Paris' view of the goddesses, but of the reverse. Specifically the initial moment of appearance, because I wanted to focus on something that's there from some of the earliest representations to the latest that we have of the Judgment; Paris' fear.

The earliest surviving pieces that show this is visual (we have no surviving early, full textual version of the Judgment), and among many of these vase paintings you will see Paris running away. In two of our latest (textual) versions, Ovid's Heroides and Lucian's Dialogue of the Gods, Paris' fear makes appearances as well, and would be our only textual surviving sources for it, too.

Some more notes under the cut!

An example of that type of "Paris fucking booking it out of there when Hermes and the goddesses appear to him" vase painting.

Lucian: Hermes: `These dames,' good Paris, are Hera, Athene, and Aphrodite; and I am Hermes, with a message from Zeus. Why so pale and tremulous? Compose yourself; there is nothing the matter.

Ovid: "I was mute, and chill tremors had raised my hair on end, when “Lay aside thy fear!” the winged herald said to me [...]"

Paris' only instrument that you see in visual arts (and the accessory he's shown with most often), is a lyre; some later textual sources have him playing pipes at the Judgment, to lean into the "pastorality" of the scene, and Paris as a shepherd. I've gone with a Bronze Age Hittite lute, to keep the string instrument angle. It was a two-stringed instrument and would, compared to a lyre, be easier to care for out in the wilderness!

#oooh... #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

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MARCE TULLI QUID AGIS?!

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man the whiplash you get from teaching advanced latin grammar to middle school students...one second you'll overhear one of them saying "you need to stop being so sus and start being skibidi" and the next they'll be explaining the sequence of tenses for participles to a classmate who has a question

#tagamemnon #latin #i love my kiddos #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

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Tormenting my husband with this depiction of the ancient city of Mari, which looks a lot like the generic isekai walled circle city with a river going through it.

#lmao #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

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‘Incredible’ Mosaics Were Found in an Ancient Luxury Home in Rome

Italy’s Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano has called the works “an authentic treasure.”

Researchers working in the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum in Rome have shared their discovery of luxurious mosaic-tiled rooms found in an ancient home on the site, which they believe may have belonged to a Roman senator. Created from shells, glass, white marble, and Egyptian blue tiles, the mosaics have been described by Italy’s Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano as “an authentic treasure”.

The “rustic” mosaics, found on the grounds surrounding the Colosseum in the heart of the city, date to the late Republican Age, in the last decades of the second century B.C.E., and show a series of figurative scenes. They once decorated a townhouse, or domus, owned by an upper class citizen. Italy’s Ministry of Culture have said that “due to the complexity of the scenes depicted” and their age, the mosaics are “without comparison.”

One mosaic depicts a coastal city with towers and porticos, with three large ships floating by on the ocean waves. The culture ministry believes this could be a reference to naval victories achieved by the owner of the home, which is believed to have been a Roman senator. This is supported by historical sources describing the area as having been occupied by such high-ranking members of society.

The decorated walls were likely located in the home’s dining rooms, where luxurious banquets would be hosted, and guests at these events were likely wowed with “spectacular water games,” according to the culture ministry, based on the presence of lead pipes set into the walls.

In the reception room, an extremely well preserved decorated stucco featuring landscapes and figures was also discovered. Other designs include vines and lotus leaves flowing from vases, musical instruments, and tridents.

The mosaic walls were first discovered near the Colosseum in 2018, but excavation at the site will continue into 2024, and more rooms could be discovered. Alfonsina Russo, the Director of the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum, has said that once the domus is full uncovered, “we will work intensely to make this place, among the most evocative of ancient Rome, accessible to the public as soon as possible.”

By Verity Babbs.

#oooooh...... #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

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so apparently both the linear b tablets and homer (il. V.722) reveal that chariots were very often stored and transported in pieces, meaning that they were easy to assemble and take apart whenever necessary

ikea chariöt...

#AWESOME #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

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#green faction best faction #writing a curse tablet rn. may the horses of the other faction all colic and explode

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glad to see that not only was "live, laugh, love" was a concept in ancient rome but they were also displaying the sentiment in forums for all to see

#tagamemnon #this is from timgad btw!! #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

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marce tulli quid agis

#re: my last reblog. imagine

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wait im legit pondering this now...

#praenomen + nomen. like a true republican roman

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Comb with a horse (circa 1295–1186 B.C. ) Ivory.

New Kingdom, Ramesside, Egypt.

Image and text courtesy The Met.

#horse comb.....i want one #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

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House of Atreus girls that were suggested on Instagram :)

I’ve gotta do Electra i know I know

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im going to complain for a sec about something arbitrary but as expected ppl rbing the news abt greece legalising gay marriage and adoption are being so unfunny abt it like "haha werent they always gay since ancient times" or "nice to see greece embracing tradition" straight up saw multiple people make references to aphrodite or the greek gods like can u shut up 😭 its not even funny you dont know anything abt this country

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