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I sometimes wonder what Pompeius and Crassus would have said if they had known that they would someday be family.

(My name-problematic brain is burning right now. SO. MANY. SIMILAR. NAMES. help)

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lyonposting pt.3 saw my first sextus coin in the wild 👍👍👍👍👍👍 i hauve erichtho’s prophecy

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Sketch request for bmac supporter: Octavian and Agrippa kissing 🤞✨💕 | req here

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conspirators: no we shouldnt invite cicero to the conspiracy to kill caesar bc hed b against the use of violence

cicero:

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Tetradrachm (Coin) Depicting the God Zeus minted in Pella, Macedonia, Ancient Greece (Dated 359–336 BCE, reign of Phillip II)

Obverse: Head of Zeus laureate to right Reverse: Young jockey rides horse prancing right on exergue line, holds palm above horse’s head

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i think characters should have sex while hating every second of it. and not in the way of them hating it but secretely still enjoying themselves i think they should be miserable the whole way through #misery

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we ran out of devotion that corrupts. would you guys be cool with devotion thats a little annoying to everyone

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Reblog if you have Roman Republic content on your blog

(aside from just during the international Tumblr holiday that is the Ides of March)

Put in the tags who your favs are

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Part 1 of the Alcibiades Self-Care mini series.

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The First and Second Citizens of Rome

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patroclus: hey what time is it?

achilles: pass me my lyre

achilles: *plays the lyre loudly*

agamemnon, from his tent: WHO THE FUCK IS PLAYING THE LYRE AT 2 AM

achilles: it's 2 am

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agamemnon meeting neoptolemus on the shores of troy like

agamemnon: jesus christ, is that a fucking gremlin?

neoptolemus: no...i'm a third grader

agamemnon: whatever, just no one feed that fucking thing after midnight

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all those years studying greek were worth it just to make dumb trojan war cycle memes

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reading the illiad and the book 10 "waking ppl up" scene happened whereupon i was instantly possessed with the need to make this.

"Then he [Agamemnon] went to Nestor,

the shepard of the people, whom he found beside his black ship just outside his tent,

upon a soft bed, and beside him lay

his finely decorated arms— a shield,

a glittering helmet, and two spears, and also the dazzling metal belt that old Lord Nestor donned when he armed himself for deadly war."

- the illiad by homer trans. emily wilson, book 10, pg 225-226

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Appian calling Sextus "being inexperienced in war" in 36 BC

Sextus guerilla warfare in Spain and his earlier success against Octavian:

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App. BC 5.110

Today is as good day as any to send some insults in Augustus direction, I guess?

Suet. Aug. 4. 2