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  1. Mosaico funerario cristiano, de Upenna, datado en torno al siglo V, que indica F. V. Dion vivió 80 años en los que plantó 4000 olivos. 🏛️Museo de Enfidha #antiguaroma #ancientrome

  2. Der heutige Tag (4. September) wird im römischen Kalender als „Pridie Nonas Septembris“ bezeichnet, also als der Tag VOR den Nonen des September (am 5.9.). Die Nonen liegen stets am achten Tag VOR den Iden, d. h. in diesem Falle dem 13. September... Zur Erinnerung: Die Römer zählten (und bezeichneten) die Tage immer in Bezug auf bestimmte Fixtage (Kalenden, Nonen, Iden).

    #roman #römisch #romanitas #kalender #calendar #nonen #nonae #ancientrome

  3. 🌸Flora🌸

    Sydney feels like it’s jumped straight from winter to summer these last few days, but really it’s Spring in the air.

    This fresco fragment is often identified as the goddess Flora and was found in the Villa of Ariadne in Stabiae. Now held in the MAN Napoli.

    #AncientRome #History #FrescoFriday

  4. ✨New Episode - Etruscan Evil Plans✨

    What is Rome to do when they gaze out from the Capitol and all they can see are the neighbours they don’t like or the neighbours that don’t like them?

    When the people of Nepete and Sutrium ask for help, Rome jumps at the opportunity. After all, who doesn’t enjoy upsetting the Etruscans?

    #Podcast #AncientRome

    partialhistorians.com/2026/09/

  5. The Romans found a dangerously effective way to sweeten wine.

    Concentrated grape must was sometimes boiled in lead vessels. The acidic must could react with the metal and form lead acetate — the notorious “sugar of lead.” Sweet on the tongue, toxic over time.

    worldfoodwine.com/worldly/the-

    #WineWednesday #wine #WineHistory #AncientRome

  6. What am I reading?

    ¾ through Ancient Roman by Simon Baker and enjoying it thoroughly. Perhaps it's my own ignorance of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, but I have been surprised at how similar current power dynamics match those of Rome in the first century AD and before. I've got Prince Orange 🍊 down as Nero and his sycophants as the aristocratic elites in the Roman Senate: clueless & self serving!

    I recommend the Heythwaite Trilogy, a Yorkshire saga by Annie Eileen Rogers, as some easy reading if you have just put down a heavy read, like Ancient Rome!

    #Reading #AmReading #Novels #Books #AncientRome

  7. Dad and I paid a visit to the edge of the Roman Empire this afternoon, and the impressive Legionary sculpture by Svetlana Kondakova (some six metres high), still standing sentry upon the Antonine Wall.

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    #Scotland #Ecosse #sculpture #photography #photographie #history #histoire #AntonineWall #AncientRome

  8. When we tell you that most of our photos together are outtakes, you should believe us.

    FYI This is what real historians look like 🤣

    #AncientRome #Podcast #LadyPodSquad

  9. Just some amazing interviews to share!

    Out now on early release over on our Patreon is our interview with Laura Jenkinson-Brown about her incredible book 'You Are Odysseus'.

    And on general release we have our interview with Emma Southon all about her latest book 'Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire.

    Whether you're team Greece or team Rome, we have something you'll enjoy!

    #AncientGreece #AncientRome #Podcast

  10. El anillo de oro de Seneciano, del siglo IV d.C., se asocia con una tablilla de maldición donde Silviano perdió su anillo y pide a Nodens, dios celta de la curación, que maldiga a los llamados Senecianos. 🏛️The Vyne #antiguaroma #ancientrome

  11. Relieve fálico con el mensaje “Aquí habita la felicidad” (Hic habitat felicitas) en la panadería de la domus de Pansa (Regio I, Insula 7, 1), hogar del panadero y duoviro Paquio Próculo o el edil Gayo Cuspio Pansa en Pompeya. 🏛️Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Nápoles (Gabinete secreto) #antiguaroma #ancientrome

  12. CW: Story from ancient Roman history, mentions debt and war

    I've been reading some of Livy's histories and keep thinking about a striking little episode from when Rome was still a small city state.

    It starts when a lot of people are drowning in debt because of loan sharks. They hold a protest and demand that the consuls, the two top magistrates, address the issue in the senate.

    The senate convenes, but one of the consuls just wants to start arresting people. Then they hear that a neighbouring town is planning to attack, so the other consul goes out to the people and promises a reprieve for all those who sign up for the army.

    The people agree and the war is quickly concluded. Afterwards, though, the first consul starts sentencing debtors to even worse punishments than before. And the other consul is too scared to act against his colleague.

    A little while after that, the consuls are squabbling about who gets to consecrate the new temple of Mercury. So the senate decides to let the people vote, adding that the winner gets a few other mandates as well. The people then elect one Marcus Laetorius, a centurion in the army, to perform these prestigious tasks.

    I believe there's a lesson in there.

    #AncientRome

  13. Limpiaúñas fálico romano del siglo IV d.C. encontrado en Cheltenham, Reino Unido. Aunque el mango no es frecuente, la punta bifurcada es común en la provincia de Britania. 📷Archaeological Research Services Ltd. #antiguaroma #ancientrome #herramientas #tools #thatsapenis

  14. Shattered Roman metal sat misunderstood for generations until its secret emerged: rare luxury battle armor, probably worn by a powerful centurion and abandoned in Scotland.
    #AncientRome #RomanEmpire #Archaeology #HistoryMystery
    Read more:ancient-origins.net/news-histo

  15. #AncientRome was a #city of immigrants,” writes historian Ryan R. Abrecht, “a pre-modern metropolis of perhaps a million people at its height, most of them #immigrants or the descendants of immigrants.”
    #Rome daily.jstor.org/ancient-rome...

    Ancient Rome: A City of Immigr...

  16. Overwhelming from every angle. Standing in the shadow of the Colosseum is a reminder of very gladiatorial combat, every animal hunt, and the way that for many generations the centre of Roman power could feel condensed in this very place.

    #AncientRome #Colosseum