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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. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 🌸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

  12. 🌸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

  13. 🌸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

  14. 🌸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

  15. 🌸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

  16. 1,600-Year-Old Skeleton Found Hiding Inside Jar With 2 Knives Raises More Questions Than Answers

    Picture this: It’s the 5th century CE. You’re in the much besieged Roman city of Deultum, a colonial…
    #Bulgaria #BG #Europe #Europa #EU #Ancientrome #Anthropology #archaeology #artifacts #bulgaria #България #новини
    europesays.com/3231462/

  17. 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

    #AncientRome #BookAdaptation #Drama #History #MovieReviews #Movies #WilliamShakespeare
  18. 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

    #AncientRome #BookAdaptation #Drama #History #MovieReviews #Movies #WilliamShakespeare
  19. 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

    #AncientRome #BookAdaptation #Drama #History #MovieReviews #Movies #WilliamShakespeare
  20. 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

    #AncientRome #BookAdaptation #Drama #History #MovieReviews #Movies #WilliamShakespeare
  21. 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

    #AncientRome #BookAdaptation #Drama #History #MovieReviews #Movies #WilliamShakespeare
  22. 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
    #AncientRome #BookReviews #Books #Drama #Theater #Tragedy #WilliamShakespeare