#Appian Way

[goshyesvintageads]

Food Specialties Inc, 1957

[henk-heijmans]

Along the old Appian way, Rome, Italy, 2005 - by Rolfe Horn (1971), American

[cleopatragirlie]

❀ 𝐒𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐚 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐧 (𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟕) ❀

[ancientstuff]

Excellent news. Ages ago, I walked the Appian Way with a group of students and frankly, it was magical.

[illustratus]

Rome, the Via Appia at Dawn by Ippolito Caffi

[deadstonemasonssociety]

At the empire's peak about 85,000 km (53,000 miles) of road connected the capital Rome with its far-away frontiers. Twenty-nine major public roads radiated from Rome, the most famous of which was Via Appia (The Appian Way), also called the "queen of roads". Built in 312 BC, it is the most illustrious example of Roman civil engineering skills; small sections of it are still in use today.

[sohannabarberaesque]

For you "Roman Holidays" fans out there

Who could just imagine the "Adopt-a-Highway" approach being applied to the major highways (and some lesser ones) of Imperial Rome, considering where the Roman mile is equivalent to 0.92 English miles?

(Even considering the impressive construction standards deployed to such extent that portions of the Via Appia, perhaps the most famous of Roman highways, remain in use to vehicular traffic to this day ... not to mention some rather impressive drainage and tilage systems in conjunction, doubtless needing to be cleaned out at the end of the winter from muck, dirt, weeds and grasses. That, and what Imperial Rome regarded as roadside litter, such as bits of pottery.)

[filmola-de]

Stephen Kings Roman Billy Summers wird nun doch als Spielfilm umgesetzt werden

Billy Summers wird nun doch keine Serienverfilmung. Warner Bros. übernimmt laut einem Bericht von Deadline den Stephen-King-Bestseller‚ Billy Summers, J.J. Abrams Bad Robot und Leonardo DiCaprios Appian Way sollen die Produktionsfirmen sein. Basierend auf „Billy Summers“ werden Edward (Ed) Zwick (Oscar „Bester Film“ für Shakespeare in Love, Legenden der Leidenschaft, Jack Reacher: Kein Weg zurück…

[stephen-king-deutschland]

Billy Summers wird nun doch als Spielfilm umgesetzt werden

Billy Summers wird nun doch keine Serienverfilmung. Warner Bros. übernimmt nun laut einem Bericht von Deadline den Stephen-King-Bestseller ‘Billy Summers’, J.J. Abrams Bad Robot und Leonardo DiCaprios Appian Way sollen die Produktionsfirmen sein. Basierend auf “Billy Summers” werden Edward (Ed) Zwick (Oscar „Bester Film“ für Shakespeare in Love, Legenden der Leidenschaft, Jack Reacher: Kein Weg…

[catilinas]

related to prev post does anyone else remember the steven saylor novel where to make the timeline of the pro milone work steven saylor needed the protagonist out of the way for like a month. so he had cicero kidnap him and just Put Him In A Pit For A While. extended descriptions of killing and eating rats. in the plot pit

[demifiendrsa]

Killers of the Flower Moon — Official Trailer 2

Synopsis

Based on David Grann’s broadly lauded best-selling book, “Killers of the Flower Moon" is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Tomb of Caecilia Metella on the Appian Way by Rome, Italy

Italian vintage postcard

[blueiscoool]

Ancient Marble Statue of Hercules Discovered in Rome

ROME : Routine sewer repairs in an area in Rome, which was seeking a recognition from the Unesco as a World Heritage site, have led to the discovery of an ancient Roman-era marble statue of the mythical demigod Hercules.

Repair crews were called in after sewer pipes in the national park at the Appian Way collapsed, causing ditches and minor landslides.

The excavations, which reached a depth of 20 meters and as rules require in the Italian capital, were carried out with the presence of archaeologists.

The life-size marble statue found at the site is reported to be of Hercules, an ancient Roman demigod known as the protector of the weak.

The figure represented by the statue carried a club and had a lion's coat over his head, part of the iconography representing Hercules.

According to reports, the statue likely dates back to Rome's imperial period, which stretched from 27 BC to 476 AD.

The find recalls last November's discovery of two dozen well-preserved bronze statues beneath the foundations of thermal baths in Tuscany.

Those statues were 2, 300 years old, even older than the Hercules statue.

The marble statue of Hercules was broken during excavations but was otherwise well preserved.

This is the second time this year that the Appian Way makes international headlines.

On January 11, the Culture Minister formally backed the inclusion of the Appian Way on Unesco's World Heritage list.

It was the first time the Ministry ever backed a UNESCO candidacy directly.

The Appian Way is an ancient road that spans 550 km between Rome and the southern Italian city of Brindisi.

t was designed in 312 BC by statesman Appio Claudio Cieco. His goal was to build a road that quickly connected Rome to Capua for the movement of troops southwards during the Second Samnite War (326-304 BC).

Later on, the route was extended to Brindisi to directly connect with Greece, the East, and Egypt, for military expeditions, travel and trade.

It was the most famous route in the Roman era.

If the Appian Way becomes a Unesco site, the Appian Way will be the second longest such site after the Great Wall of China.

[pleasingnight]

I think showing tits should have been an acceptable method of defence in Roman courts.

[ghoul-haunted]

like, despite the absolute brainrot that I have about crassus, I do spend a lot of time thinking about all the other players in a scene. like you can't NOT think about slavery when you fuck around with crassus, because his stance on what obligation a head of a household has to his slaves when placed next to say. fucking cato's thoughts on slaves is just. wrugh. when germanicus was raging at his fate and talking about bodies in the walls, like no shit buddy, youre a roman aristocrat. if you have heated baths in like, your house, you have bodies under your floor already. you ever think about how educated slaves from roman aristocrat families who were able to buy their freedom were viewed with a certain degree of mistrust from both sides. that's so fucking lonely. I cannot stop thinking about the scholar from the spartacus documentary saying the worst thing about becoming enslaved was to get used to it.