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Circus Games in Ancient Rome by Luigi Ademollo

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post cancelled just had a prophetic vision of the rotting bloated corpses clogging the river the blood swelling the tiber's waters the gore rent from romes decaying arteries the dead men kept standing by the sheer mass of their slaughtered fellows their heads lolling limply their jaws hanging slack the . waitasecond WHOO is that beautiful androgynous ginger man over there i need him in my bed IMMEDIATELY

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"average roman senator has 3 wives in his lifetime" factoid actualy just statistical error. average roman senator has 1 wife in his lifetime. gnaeus pompenis magnus Georg, who lives in his theater and has 5 wives each year, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Went to the Naples Archaeological Museum and yes I took pictures of every statue of my dude Tiberius and may (or may not) have squealed "Tibby" at least once... Also plagued my non-history nerd bestie with a passionate defense of Tiberius against allegations she didn't even know existed

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the cicero problem is possibly thee funniest interpretative issue of all time. hi it’s me cicero your major source for the late roman republic. i cannot be trusted but you don’t really have a choice here do you :)

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The one bizarre thing to me about textiles is that warp-weighted weaving is at least 6500 years old, but our oldest knitted artifacts are only ~1000 years old, and crochet 200 years old. Even though you need less equipment to knit (two sticks) or crochet (one hook) compared to warp-weighted weaving (frame, loom weights, batting, heddles). Why the big gaps between these inventions? And why did each one appear and spread when it did?

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soft spoken women rarely make history yadda yadda yadda but I'm legit tearing up, not at cicero calling clodia nota (notorious), but auctor (author, instigator, enacter). there is such agency in that term. the guy demonising her is also the one who immortalised her agency in the historical record. his entire defense and accusation of her may be fabrication, but this idea that she had a MODICUM of agency to let it go this far must have been based on a grain of truth for it to be plausible. and that means something to me

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A Roman Pale Blue Glass Pillar-moulded Bowl, 

Circa 1st Century BC/AD,

5 1⁄8 in. (13 cm.) diam.

Courtesy: Christie’s

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tribunepilled vetomaxxer

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WHATT FUCKING EVER!!! LICTORS!!! SHOW ME HIS PUSSY!!!!

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mark antony voice how does a balding lying son of a pleb and an eques

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In Cleopatra e Cesare, Cornelia's insistence on a parallel between herself and Caesar ("if you were in my shoes, you would feel the same" and then "since you took this opportunity of vengeance from me, Pompey's shadow expects YOU to do it now") reads to me like "You were Pompey's wife TOO, don't you think you owe his restless ghost something?"

Which is not unprecedented - cf. Caesar's "Ombra del caro sposo errante non andrà, né intorno girerà invendicata" in Piccinni's Giulio Cesare in Egitto.

And even Emilia in Catone in Utica: "Surely you are waiting for your wife in the underworld; so I am sending Caesar there".

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damn they had chasers in ancient rome

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lucius furius m. f. sp. n. camillus isnt a fictional character he was actually real. hewas a real guy look him up on google

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Caesar Octavianus finds Cleopatra by the body of Antonius

by Josef Platzer