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caesar.

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repeat after me: i am a sexy bitch and nobody ruins my 44 bc

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Congratulations

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Must hand it to Mark Antony for successfully pulling two of the baddest bitches in Republic-Era history (if not ancient history period) almost back to back. Also if we consider that alongside Cleopatra's marital tko of Julius Caesar and Antony, and Fulvia having bagged Clodius Pulcher previously its almost a serial relationship chain of the most interesting and happening people in the world at the time. More historical dramas should focus on this aspect I feel

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Roman senators have a biological clock reminding them to die brutally by age 65. If you see him getting depressed, violating the law, or causing political problems it's time to KILL HIM or HELP HIM COMMIT SUICIDE. His intestines yearn for the floor

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Okay, wait, has anyone mentioned this yet

(Plutarch, Life of Antony 24)

Today's scholarly findings from the Pharsalia Discord with @pomp-quio, @soldatrose, @transbutchblues, and @thoodleoo.

1. Antony is a carrion-eater. Cases:

moved into Pompey's ghost house and "swallowed" his wealth (Cic. Phil. 2.67)

married the haunted Fulvia

Caesar's body

Cicero's head ("It is said that even at his meals Antony placed the head of Cicero before his table, until he became satiated with the horrid sight" - App. B Civ. 4.20).

Cf. the head of Caesetius Rufus brought to Antony's dinner (Val. Max. 9.5.4)

Cassius' metaphorical body (the general's cloak and sword, Plut. Brut. 45)

perhaps Brutus' literal body

relationship with Cleopatra haunted by Caesar's ghost.

When it is not directly about dead men's bodies, Antony "takes dead men’s houses and marries dead men’s wives" - @transbutchblues.

2. In being a carrion-eater Antony emulates Pompey, who married Crassus' daughter-in-law (and also stole a lot of things, although more often from alive men - which is I think a significant difference).

3. Lucan depicts Antonius the Orator's head "set on a banquet table", just like Cicero's head in Appian's book 4. This continues Lucan's theme of "turning against one's patria = turning against one's ancestors": Antony proscribes his grandfather the same way time-travelling Caesar chases his ancestor Aeneas out of Troy, starting off the washing machine cycles of violence.

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You're tearing me apart Licinnus!

Oh, salve Marce

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(Full view plz)

Some historical characters that will be making an appearance in the webcomic I'm developing!

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i could be the most incompetent attack dog youve ever seen

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New show on ancient Roman hulu called "URSUS". It's just suicide and political anxiety interspersed with nice looking food.

a brief pause in our regularly scheduled warfare to announce metellus scipio's new culinary innovation

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Thinking about him (the soldier in Poynter’s Faithful Until Death painting watching an apocalypse unfold around him with horror in his eyes as he tries to keep himself standing beneath a doorway, based on an actual 19th century archeological find of a man in full soldier’s garb under a doorway at Pompeii)

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I know this isn't ninjago guys but I finished this 17 hour painting for my art class and I was proud of it so...enjoy.

I love Egypt fun fact about me. :) [ID: a detailed, realistic painting of the hathor columns at the dendera temple complex in dendera, egypt. /end ID]