#ancientrome — Public Fediverse posts

Hope your Monday hasn’t shocked the system like it seems to have for this guy! His Leafiness comes from a larger mosaic depicting a bear hunt from the C4th CE. He’s not involved, but is hanging about in the foliage border.

#MosaicMonday #AncientRome

WHAT AM I READING?
Just finished Ancient Rome by Simon Baker. It stuck with me after I put it down, the mark of a good book. So reminiscent of our current times (despite being over 2000 years ago) and our power hungry, self-centred leaders. A lesson in why we really don't need to anoint a leader for any of our societies.

Started The Midnight Train by Matt Haig. So far: like the Midnight Library but slightly better story.

#Reading #AmReading #Novels #Books #AncientRome #Psychology

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

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

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

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

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

Wer schon immer mal wissen wollte, wie eine Toga angelegt und drapiert wird, findet im folgenden Beitrag des Museums Aargau die passende Anleitung (mit Video):

https://www.museumaargau.ch/blog/so-machten-es-die-roemer-toga-binden-mit-video

#roman #römisch #romanitas #genstogata #toga #römischekleidung #romanclothing #ancientrome

Wer schon immer mal wissen wollte, wie eine Toga angelegt und drapiert wird, findet im folgenden Beitrag des Museums Aargau die passende Anleitung (mit Video):

https://www.museumaargau.ch/blog/so-machten-es-die-roemer-toga-binden-mit-video

#roman #römisch #romanitas #genstogata #toga #römischekleidung #romanclothing #ancientrome

Wer schon immer mal wissen wollte, wie eine Toga angelegt und drapiert wird, findet im folgenden Beitrag des Museums Aargau die passende Anleitung (mit Video):

https://www.museumaargau.ch/blog/so-machten-es-die-roemer-toga-binden-mit-video

#roman #römisch #romanitas #genstogata #toga #römischekleidung #romanclothing #ancientrome

Wer schon immer mal wissen wollte, wie eine Toga angelegt und drapiert wird, findet im folgenden Beitrag des Museums Aargau die passende Anleitung (mit Video):

https://www.museumaargau.ch/blog/so-machten-es-die-roemer-toga-binden-mit-video

#roman #römisch #romanitas #genstogata #toga #römischekleidung #romanclothing #ancientrome

Wer schon immer mal wissen wollte, wie eine Toga angelegt und drapiert wird, findet im folgenden Beitrag des Museums Aargau die passende Anleitung (mit Video):

https://www.museumaargau.ch/blog/so-machten-es-die-roemer-toga-binden-mit-video

#roman #römisch #romanitas #genstogata #toga #römischekleidung #romanclothing #ancientrome

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

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

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

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

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

🌸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

¿Tiene sentido que a los romanos les pagasen con sal? #antiguaroma #ancientrome

https://resolviendolaincognita.blogspot.com/2024/03/los-romanos-cobraban-en-sal.html

✨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

https://partialhistorians.com/2026/09/03/episode-177-etruscan-evil-plans/

Nearly 1,800 years ago, someone carried a Roman multi-tool combining dining implements and specialized gadgets—including a fork, a rarity at Roman tables.
#AncientRome #RomanTechnology #AncientInventions #RomanArtifacts #AncientOrigins #HistoryReels
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/original-swiss-army-knife-must-have-gadget-guys-0010212

A Roman legend tells of flexible glass that survived being smashed and hammered back into shape—until Emperor Tiberius supposedly made its secret disappear.
#AncientRome #RomanTechnology #LostInventions #Tiberius #AncientOrigins #HistoryReels Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/unbreakable-story-lost-roman-invention-flexible-glass-009453

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.

https://www.worldfoodwine.com/worldly/the-roman-sugar-was-slowly-poisoning-its-drinkers

#WineWednesday #wine #WineHistory #AncientRome

September's dawn breach
Cracking the sky this morning
Seventh month's the ninth

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #September #Septem #Roman #AncientRome #AncientRomanCalendar #JulianCalendar #Fall #Harvest #Ohio #USA #Photography #2026

September 1, 2026

⚡ MIND-BLOWING: The Lost Legion of Carrhae: Did a Roman Legion End Up in China?
📈 Trending with 100K+ readers! You won't believe what they found! 😱
https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/lost-legion-carrhae-0011019
#AncientOrigins #History #Archaeology #RomanEmpire #AncientRome #AncientChina #Chinese #HumanOrigins #Evolution #Civilization

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

I do love the old steel signposts with metal lettering, not so many still around.

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#Ecosse #Scotland #photography #photographie #CroyHill #AntonineWall #AncientRome #Signpost #vintage #history #histoire

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

🔍 FASCINATING DISCOVERY: An Unbreakable Story: The Lost Roman Invention of Flexible Glass
📈 Trending with 100K+ readers! The past holds incredible secrets! 🔐
https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/unbreakable-story-lost-roman-invention-flexible-glass-009453
#AncientOrigins #History #Archaeology #RomanEmpire #AncientRome #Artifacts #Archaeological #HumanOrigins #Evolution #MustRead

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

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

🗿 ARCHAEOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGH: The Real History of the Romani People and the Misnomer of Gypsies
📈 Trending with 100K+ readers! What do you think? 🤔
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/romani-people-0010492
#AncientOrigins #History #Archaeology #RomanEmpire #AncientRome #HumanOrigins #Evolution #Ancient #Culture #MustRead

🗿 ARCHAEOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGH: Commodus: The Outrageous Emperor Who Fought as a Gladiator
📈 Trending with 100K+ readers! The past holds incredible secrets! 🔐
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/commodus-roman-emperor-002713
#AncientOrigins #History #Archaeology #RomanEmpire #AncientRome #HumanOrigins #Evolution #HistoryFacts #Educational #Fascinating

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

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

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

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:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/roman-arm-guard-0020242

“ #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...

Movie Review: William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (1953)

Title: William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Release Date: June 4, 1953
Director:  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Main Cast:

• Marlon Brando as Mark Antony
• James Mason as Brutus
• John Gielgud as Cassius
• Louis Calhern as Julius Caesar
• Edmond O’Brien as Casca
• Greer Garson as Calpurnia
• Deborah Kerr as Portia
• George Macready as Marullus
• Michael Pate as Flavius
• Richard Hale as a Soothsayer
• Alan Napier as Cicero
• John Hoyt as Decius Brutus
• Tom Powers as Metellus Cimber
• William Cottrell as Cinna
• Jack Raine as Trebonius
• Ian Wolfe as Ligarius
• Morgan Farley as Artemidorus
• Bill Phipps as Servant to Antony
• Douglas Watson as Octavius Caesar
• Douglass Dumbrille as Lepidus
• Rhys Williams as Lucilius
• Michael Ansara as Pindarus
• Dayton Lummis as Messala
• Edmund Purdom as Strato
• Paul Guilfoyle as First Citizen
• John Doucette as Second Citizen
• Lawrence Dobkin as Third Citizen
• Jo Gilbert as Fourth Citizen

Synopsis (via Letterboxd):

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

My Thoughts:

Julius Caesar receives the full MGM classic era treatment: big sets, big crowds, and big stars!  And it’s mostly effective.  For it’s cast of thousands, the success of this movie is down to the talents of its three lead actors.  Marlo Brando breaks from the mumbler typecast he had at the time to be an inspirational Mark Antony while John Gielgud is imperious as the conspiracy leader Cassius.  I have to admit that I usually find James Mason to be very creepy, but his creepiness is toned down here allowing him to play a sympathetic antihero in Brutus.  Producer John Houseman decided to break the tradition of an all-British cast in Shakespeare productions and it pays off in performances such as Edmond O’Brien’s very Brooklyn approach to Casca.  Joseph L. Mankiewicz is known for being a dialogue director which feels like it should be right for a Shakespeare, but his approach is too faithful in presenting it as a historical drama.  For a movie released just after the end of World War II, I had hoped that the crisis of dictators with ambitions would feel more present. While the monologues are strong, the movie lacks an overall sense of urgency and intrigue.

Rating: ***1/2

Book Review: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare
Title: Julius Caesar
Publication Info: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2011 [first performed circa 1599]
Summary/Review:

Despite the title, this play is not about Julius Caesar. In fact [SPOILERS], Caesar dies at the beginning of Act III.  Instead it’s the story of Marcus Junius Brutus, depicted by Shakespeare as a friend of Caesar’s concerned that Caesar’s ambition and appointment as dictator for life threatens the Roman Republic.  And it’s the story of Cassius, the zealot who organizes a conspiracy against Caesar and convinces Brutus to join. And it’s the story of Mark Antony, ally of Caesar, who craftily sways the Roman public against the conspirators but maintains a respect toward Brutus. The brilliance of Shakespeare is that while all of these characters are flawed, rash, and entangled in political intrigue, there is no real villain in the piece.

Favorite Passages:

It’s a truism that Shakespeare originated – or at least popularized – numerous words and phrases.  But it’s still a surprise to me just how many familiar phrases are in this play.  There are some sayings that are obviously from Julius Caesar even if you haven’t read the play, such as:

• Beware the Ides of March (Soothsayer, Act 1, scene 2)
• Et tu, Brutè? (Caesar, Act 3, scene 1)
• Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears (Antony, Act 3, scene 2)

But I was surprised to read these notable phrases in the dialogue as well:

• The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars (Cassius, Act 1, scene 2) – “Brutus” is typically left out when this is quoted in popular culture
• Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. (Caesar, Act 1, scene 2) – Again, I often hear this without “Cassius”
• But for mine own part, it was Greek to me (Casca, Act 1, scene 2)
• Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war (Antony, Act 3, scene 1)
• This was the most unkindest cut of all (Antony, Act 3, scene 2)

Rating: ****1/2

I’m reading every Shakespeare play, one per month, in chronological order.  Here’s my progress thus far:

1. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
2. The Taming of the Shrew
3. Henry VI, Part 1
4. Henry VI, Part 2
5. Henry VI, Part 3
6. Titus Andronicus
7. Richard III
8. The Comedy of Errors
9. Love’s Labours’ Lost
10. Richard II
11. Romeo and Juliet
12. A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
13. The Life and Death of King John
14. The Merchant of Venice
15. The History of Henry IV, Part 1
16. The Merry Wives of Windsor
17. The History of Henry IV, Part 2
18. Much Ado About Nothing
19. King Henry V

A 1,600-year-old Roman nail cleaner found near Cheltenham, England, has a very unusual handle. To Romans, the phallus wasn't obscene—it was a lucky symbol believed to protect against evil. #AncientRome #RomanBritain #Archaeology #AncientHistory #HistoryFacts Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/roman-nail-cleaner-00103062

Why didn’t medieval Europe’s armies use ballistas?

https://buymeacoffee.com/newscafe/why-didn-medieval-europe-armies-use-ballistas
#ancientrome #middleage #medievaleurope #history

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Revolting!

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2177406/revolting

Revolting!

https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/2177403/revolting

Scipio Africanus remains a badass either way 💪

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2120546/scipio-africanus-remains-a-badass-either-way

Scipio Africanus remains a badass either way 💪

https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/2120543/scipio-africanus-remains-a-badass-either-way

Isn't it weird how ultra-wealthy oligarchs always oppose any attempt to give power or relief to the poor?

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2101577/isn-t-it-weird-how-ultra-wealthy-oligarchs-always-oppose-any-attempt-to-give-power-or-r

Isn't it weird how ultra-wealthy oligarchs always oppose any attempt to give power or relief to the poor?

https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/2101576/isn-t-it-weird-how-ultra-wealthy-oligarchs-always-oppose-any-attempt-to-give-power-or-r