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ancientrome · 9 days ago

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Roman ring depicting Zeus seated on a throne with an eagle

1st - 2nd century CE

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

#ring

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The mind churns with thoughts of those taken too soon from us, and the monsters who tore them from loving embrace.

#spartacus

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Erotic fresco at the House of the Vettii in Pompeii.

#fresco

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ancientrome · 10 days ago

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dancers | c. 20 - 45 CE | pompeii, so-called villa of cicero

in the museo archeologico nazionale di napoli collection

#fresco

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ancientrome · 12 days ago

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He only wants me alive to parade me in chains for a mob to spit on

#gif #cleopatra #hbo #rome #octavian #augustus #oldie but goodie

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ancientrome · 17 days ago

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Her heart, Elizabeth said, "cwtched" for him, which means "hug" in Welsh. She was infatuated from the moment she saw him. "I get an orgasm just listening to that voice of his," she said.

And he felt the same. "I fell in love at once. She was like a mirage of beauty of the ages, irresistible like the pull of gravity."

Producer Walter Wanger stood on the set and watched amused as the two of them huddled together talking during their first days of Cleopatra. When they were called to start filming, they pulled away from each other and went to their places, but an invisible rope always seemed to draw them back together.

Richard began to point things out to her about the way she was living her life, like how strange it was that she only wore Mike Todd's wedding ring and often left the one Eddie Fisher gave her behind. He said that she seemed to be stuck four years in the past. "He was like Prince Charming kissing the sleeping princess," she wrote.

CLEOPATRA (1963) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#gif #cleopatra #mark antony

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ancientrome · 17 days ago

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