#epitaphs — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #epitaphs, aggregated by home.social.
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Ancient Romans loved their dogs. Here's what their heartbreakingly beautiful epitaphs said about them.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/roman-dog-epitaph
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Ancient Romans loved their dogs. Here's what their heartbreakingly beautiful epitaphs said about them.
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/roman-dog-epitaph
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Ancient Romans loved their dogs. Here's what their heartbreakingly beautiful epitaphs said about them.
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/roman-dog-epitaph
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Ancient Romans loved their dogs. Here's what their heartbreakingly beautiful epitaphs said about them.
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/roman-dog-epitaph
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University of Exeter: New research project will explore the influence Shakespeare had upon how we remember the dead. “The influence and inspiration that William Shakespeare has had upon the practice of writing epitaphs is to be the focus of a new research project. English Literature experts at the University of Exeter will study epitaphs and obituaries dating back to the 18th century to […]
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It is so soon that I am done for I wonder what I was begun for.(Anonymous child’s grave, Cheltenham)
10 thought provoking epitaphs on Day of the Dead.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2024/11/2-november-epitaphs.html
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#Elegies Written for a Country Churchyard: series of mock #epitaphs in verse for those judged "late of this parish".
https://zenrinji.wordpress.com/tag/epitaphia/ -
#Elegies Written for a Country Churchyard: series of mock #epitaphs in verse for those judged "late of this parish".
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Here lies the mule Maggie. In her life she kicked 2 generals, 8 colonels, 7 captains, 16 lieutenants, 541 enlisted men and 1 German mine.
On the Day of the Dead, 10 funny epitaphs:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2023/11/2-november-day-of-dead-funny-epitaphs.html
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Alleluia. Another in a series of mock #epitaphs #graveyardhumour
+ Raised to the memory of Sister Theresa;
Her pupils tried hard but they never could please her.
Her bark froze their blood but what really was crueller
Was when she took out her feared long wooden ruler. 1/ -
My manager just summed up an hour-long discussion of a tiny edge-case in our app by saying:
"That ended up being more complicated than I expected”
and now I know what I want carved on my tombstone.
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Like A Discus
"Greek and Roman epitaphs can be touching. They can also, in the case of Allia Potestas, even be risqué. But they can also be horribly, incredibly embarrassing -- as in the case of Aphrodisios of Alexandria Troas ..." Mefites discuss an ancient death — and odd elegy.
https://www.metafilter.com/199980/The-Most-Embarrassing-Tombstone-of-All-Time#8426146
#Aphrodisios #ancientGreece #epitaphs #tombstone #archaeology #Louvre #death #funerary #history
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#Epitaphs - in Arizona Whoops
Here lies George Johnson
Hanged by mistake 1882
He was right
We was wrong
But we strung him up
And now he's gone
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I find this site so interesting:
http://www.attalus.org/docs/cil/epitaph.html
~2000 years old #roman #epitaphs"Stranger, my message is short. Stand by and read it through. Here is the unlovely tomb of a lovely woman. Her parents called her Claudia by name. She loved her husband with her whole heart. She bore two sons; of these she leaves one on earth; under the earth has she placed the other. She was charming in converse, yet proper in bearing. She kept house, she made wool. That's my last word. Go your way"
