#Incitatus

[uncleclaudius]

16th March 37 AD, Caligula became the third Roman Emperor.

The Romans really hoped they would have a good time after over twenty years of dour, unpopular Tiberius, and it certainly proved to be eventful.

Here is a statue of Caligula on a horse. Perhaps it is Incitatus, his favourite horse, which, despite what the most popular stories say, was not made a consul. However, Caligula did give the horse lavish stables and its own slaves to take care of him.

[badhistorymemes]

Anyways stan Incitatus

[kat-vs-art]

Here’s the rest of the Neighvember prompts I did! A collection of fan art of Disney horses, Roman horses, and my horse personification of Fantasyland ✨

[imthemuthafuckingcricket]

[allweknewisdead]

Caligula: The Ultimate Cut (2023) - Tinto Brass (Cut overseen by Thomas Negovan)

Take my horse to his own room!

[druidshollow]

i love you red blood. i missed you red blood. i love you red blood i missed y

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

New Poll! :D

*Only the villains from PJO, HoO, & ToA are included. I ran out of room for MCatGoA & KC villains :(

just gonna say that if Commodus or Caligula don't win I'm rioting.

Feel free to throw propaganda around! :D Remember, this is a friendly tournament :3

[jichanxo]

hobbs my good friend hobbs 💕

[four-white-trees]

Sunday Six - Fresh and new!

I've been working diligently away on the star wars project and this week I'm happy to share something entirely brand new for the fic :3 I'm hoping to have the first part finished very soon. which means the most difficult part is upon me: titling this thing

tagging: @jichanxo @mike----wazowski @skysquid22 @overdevelopedglasses @passthroughtime

Hobbs stepped up his pace as he headed toward the mess hall doors, but Joiner caught up anyway, placing a hand on Hobb’s shoulder while saying, “I need to ask ya somethin’, lad.”

Hobbs spun around, breaking Joiner’s hold on him, which wasn’t all that hard. “Don’t touch me.”

Joiner dropped his hand and gazed up into Hobbs’ glare, his eyes bright and vivid green under the fluorescent light of the mess hall. “Oi, what’s eatin’ yer shorts?”

Hobbs blew out a breath, resisting the urge to yell at him. “You should know.”

“I can do a lotta things, lad,” Joiner said, folding his thick arms over his broad chest, “but I can’t read minds. Never learned that one.”

Hobbs wanted to swear at him, wanted to hit him, wanted to do neither and just walk away. But none of those were mature adult actions. Well, they weren’t according to how Hobbs was raised, although all three actions were common on the Incitatus. Hobbs had stood up to Joiner before, and in a mature fashion. He could do it again.

“I don’t appreciate that you got me reassigned to the repairs on the captain’s X-wing,” he said, mustering all his strength to sound calm. His hands were shaking, so he’d stuck them in his pockets.

Joiner’s brow furrowed and his eyes narrowed. Not quite a glare, but certainly not a friendly look. “Ye think I did that?”

Hobbs’ stomach flipped as a wash of anxiety came over him. “You–who else would it have been?”

Joiner shrugged. “Gaius just does shit. I don’t fuckin’ question him.” Now he glared. “And I don’t go cryin’ to him when I get into a little spat with someone.”

Hobbs ground his teeth, trying not to give into the desire to stare at the floor. Well, didn’t he feel like an asshole? “My apologies,” he muttered.

[toa-character-tournament]

ROUND ONE, BRACKET A

personally, i think this one is the funniest matchup. how would this even go. Incitatus kicks austin off immediately? austin pulls a killer tune on the sax, immediately obliterating Incitatus? guess it's up to you guys 🫡

[sourkitsch]

I keep reading & watching famously fucked up sex things and going well they’re actually kind of boring

[bluespiritfire]

The tragic state of Wondrous Tales

Unfortunately, this is NOT the achievement it should be. If you will direct your attention to the 3 line reward, you'll see that there is no gold certificate as a reward.

That's because I don't have a level 100 job, according to the wiki.

Why are we robbed of a gold certificate when the difficulty of getting 3 lines hasn't changed? A mount isn't any more or less impressive because you hit some arbitrary number!

[darkarfs]

I bought a Caligula's Horse t-shirt. I think they're a good band, I love the name, and if anyone asks, I can say "yes, I was elected by an absolute madman at the height of his depravity."

[blueiscoool]

Bronze Bust of Roman Emperor Caligula Rediscovered After 200 Years

The small bronze statue, which was unearthed at Herculaneum, had been missing for two centuries

A curator in England has rediscovered a tiny Roman-era bronze bust of the emperor Caligula, which had been missing for some 200 years.

The artifact was unearthed in the mid-18th century at Herculaneum, the ancient town preserved under volcanic ash since Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E. Then, Horace Mann, the British ambassador to Italy, acquired the five-inch-tall statue and gave it to his friend, Horace Walpole, the British writer and politician.

The two friends even exchanged letters about the 2,000-year-old bronze, according to a statement from Strawberry Hill House, Walpole’s Gothic home in London.

“I gaze on it from morning to night. It is more a portrait than any picture I ever saw,” Walpole wrote in 1767. “The hair and ears seem neglected, to heighten the expression of the eyes, which are absolutely divine, and have a wild melancholy in them, that one forebodes might ripen to madness.”

Caligula is infamous for his eccentric and cruel behavior. Legend has it that the emperor was so obsessed with his horse, Incitatus, that he tried to make the animal a consul, though this rumor is likely untrue. His reign, which began in 37 C.E., was erratic. He was assassinated after only four years in power.

Today, only seven other small-scale bronze busts of the emperor are known to exist. When Walpole died in 1797, his Roman bust changed hands several times, with some owners mistaking the visage for Alexander the Great.

Silvia Davoli, a curator at Strawberry Hill, found the lost bust in the family collection of Sir John Henry Schroder, who had purchased it in the 1890s, per the statement.

As a curator of Walpole’s former estate, Davoli was familiar with the politician’s correspondence with Mann and knew of the statue’s existence. She had also seen a drawing of it, which Walpole had commissioned from the artist John Carter. When she came across the bronze in Schroder’s collection, she was able to match it to Carter’s drawing.

Schroder doesn’t appear to have known what the statue was or where it came from. According to Strawberry Hill, the family’s collection catalogs refer to the piece as a “possible Renaissance bronze of a youth.”

“They had no idea it was Caligula,” Davoli tells the Guardian’s Richard Brooks. “I was so happy when I finally saw the bronze and made the link.”

Because the statue hadn’t become discolored over time, experts had previously assumed it dated to the 16th century. However, a recent analysis of the metal confirmed that the bronze is, in fact, ancient.

Dietrich Boschung, an expert on imperial Roman iconography at the University of Cologne in Germany, has since examined photos of the statue.

“I’m convinced it is Caligula,” Boschung tells the Guardian. For him, the statue’s piercing silver eyes are a dead giveaway—a common feature of Roman-era bronzes depicting emperors. He also finds it feasible that the piece was once at Herculaneum. “Around that time, many Roman bronzes were found there,” he adds.

To celebrate the discovery, Strawberry Hill will include the ancient bust in its upcoming exhibition, “The Art of Treasure Hunting.” Visitors can check out the tiny Caligula statue for themselves when the show opens on June 28.

By Julia Binswanger.