#classicstober2024 — Public Fediverse posts

fabula murina (mouse story) 302* and ClassicsTober 8
Boudicca, regina saeva Icenorum, militem Romanum oppugnat (Boudicca, fierce queen of the Iceni, is attacking one Roman soldier). auriga parva essedum agit (A small charioteer drives her war chariot).
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*Yes, the numbering has gone completely wrong. me paenitet!

ClassicsTober 7
Harmodius and Aristogeiton, the tyrannicides from Athens, who lived and died in the 6th century BC
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ClassicsTober 6
Meleager of Gadara is best known for his love epigrams and his anthology called The Garland, written in Greek. He lived in the 1st century BCE, was born in present-day Jordan, grew up in Tyre in modern Lebanon, and lived on the Greek island of Kos.
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C.Plinius Secundus sororis filio legit de echinis (Pliny the Elder reads to his nephew about hedgehogs). C.Plinius Caecilius Secundus ridet: poma in spinis echinus ipse adfixit! (Pliny the Younger smiles: he stuck the apples on the hedgehog's prickles himself!)
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@Minimus This is brilliant, thanks for the intro to #Classicstober2024 & the 31 bios. Great #storytelling!
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ClassicsTober 4
ecce Cleopatra Selene, filia Cleopatrae VII et Marci Antonii, captiva Romanorum, uxor Jubae II, regina Mauretaniae (Here's Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra II & Mark Antony, Roman prisoner, wife of Juba , queen of Mauretania)
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Today's Ancient History figure is Thucydides, the great Greek historian. This mosaic portrait was made in the 3rd century CE in Jordan, separated from the man himself by more than 900 miles and 700 years #Classicstober2024

ClassicsTober 2
ecce Eumachia, negotiatrix felix et patrona fullonum (Here's Eumachia, successful businesswoman and patron of laundry workers). Silvius operarios curiose spectat (Silvius watches the workers inquisitively)
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fabula murina (mouse story) CCXLIII
hodie sunt Kalendae Octobres (Today is the first of October). Minimus et Silvius in cubiculo sedent, prope foculum (Minimus and Silvius sit in the bedroom, by the stove). de hominibus illustris legunt (They're reading about famous people).
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Minima is reconstructing the tombstone of Regina, British ex-slave and wife of Barates the Syrian. She's wearing a two-layered dress in the British style, and holding a distaff. By her feet are a basket of wool and a jewellery box. Regina is a non-playing character in the first Minimus book!
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