#classicalcivilisation — Public Fediverse posts

Apropos absolutely nothing ... did #PublicTransport exist in the #RomanEmpire? That is, were there vehicles of any kind that existed solely for the carriage of people plus their personal luggage (but not freight), without regard for social rank, operating regularly along set routes? Excluding #ferries over rivers and the like. #AncientRome #Classics #ClassicalCivilisation #History #Histodons

Coming this June from Cambridge University Press. My book examines agonistic epigram and epinikian poetry together, the first study of its kind in English, through their deployment of the metaphors of heralds and messages. #classics #classicalantiquity #classicalcivilisation #ancientgreece #ancientgreek @bookstodon @histodon

Archaeologists Discover an Extraordinary 2,100-Year-Old Mosaic Near the Colosseum
#ancientRome #classicalCivilisation #art #archaeology
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/01/colosseum-domus-mosaic/

#introduction, 3rd version 😎 like my thesis.

#PhD candidate at the #University of #Fribourg, #Switzerland. Specialise on representation of interactions, #Literature #Iconography #Epigraphy , between #Grandparents and #Grandchildren in #ClassicalAthens.

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#ClassicalIconography #ClassicalArchaeology
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 #histodons
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