#arthur keaveney

[trialsinthelateromanrepublic]

Elon Musk just announced he's an unironic Sulla fanboy and I'm devastated

this is so embarrassing for him honestly. like where even to start. what do you think that he likes most about sulla. like is it inventing civil war? writing his own personal hit list and then having hundreds of people killed? most of his reforms being reversed by his own supporters within like ten years? partying himself to death?

[p-clodius-pulcher]

Sorry you don’t know camp when you see it 🙄🙄🙄 don’t worry Lucullus I know you slayed

[brother-emperors]

so. my laptop is Deceased, which means I don’t have half of my pdf library (because I wasn’t able to back it all up yet. weeping and wailing), and THAT means that I have a much smaller pool of texts to work off with and cite, so. this is a much more direct glimpse into my thoughts when I’m reading ancient sources and don’t have the poetry of scholars to direct my imagination

anyway, the tris homines alliance is also an informal club for people that had weird but formative relationships with sulla. like. a real Make Them Worse situation happened there. crassus becomes someone who is half shadowy rumor behind every dealing in the eyes of others, pompey and caesar drag rome back into civil war, sulla says that caesar resembles marius but it’s sulla’s playbook that caesar later runs. everyone dies in places where they do not expect to die.

Plutarch, Caesar

Plutarch, Pompey

Plutarch, Crassus

Rome, Blood & Power, Gareth C Sampson

Sulla: The Last Republican, Arthur Keaveney

The Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae and the Invasion of the East, Gareth C. Sampson

[katabay]

testing out some brushes I think I want to use for when I actually start posting bad governance in narrative order, which took a slight detour because I had to do some math with character ages and events and oh I hate doing math so much

so! do you ever realize you're definitely going to get dumped but you're stuck waiting it out because you're not really in a position to do anything about it except sit there and deal with it

ofc you can always just. ditch the party.

this is playing off of the historical dynamic between sulla, pompey, and crassus because sulla sure loved playing favorites, and it was never crassus. however a man doesn't need to be a favorite to make use of him, etc etc and favoritism doesn't last forever, but I'll get into that later

Sulla: The Last Republican, Arthur Keaveney

Rome, Blood & Power, Gareth C Sampson

Plutarch, Pompey

[garland-on-thy-brow]

[Arthur Keaveney, The Army in the Roman Revolution]

"Sulla's bastard heir".

[stcantarella]

how do i get into those roman guys? i watched a bit of rome hbo back in the day. what are good sources to read? or cool books? i love what you post about them even though im always a bit lost

hiii!!! first of all, thank you so much! I'm so excited to get to recommend stuff because I love talking about what I've been reading and watching. Honestly though? My suggestion is that if you're already seeing stuff about the Rome guys and you've watched HBO Rome you have a baseline of knowledge and more or less know some guys so pick your favourite and start there! Reading about your favourite guy will lead you to like 5 different insane guys and you can then continue reading from there :)

I only watched HBO Rome this year I think? But I already knew about some of the guys because my friend Gus is a big Rome fan and I knew I liked Augustus so I read

The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus by Paul Zanker

Then I moved on to Agrippa and read

Marcus Agrippa: Right-Hand Man of Caesar Augustus by Lindsay Powell

which led me to rereading the Shakespeares, a couple of research papers on Crassus, some essays Gus sent me, Camus' Caligula, Catullus' stuff and

Sulla: The Last Republican by Arthur Keaveney

I'm currently reading a Lucullus bio! Other than this I watched a couple of stagings of the Shakesperes and this Cleopatra musical which was sooo fun and whichever Rome movie looked fun like the 1963 Cleopatra and 2003's Imperium: Augustus. I also listened to the History of Rome podcast when washing my dishes.

Currently, I'd recommend subscribing to e-pistulae which I've found is the easiest way of reading Cicero's letters, if you're interested in the Pharsalia, the Pharsalia book club is about to begin soon which I'm very excited about and here's a great list of recommendations if you want to pick up a biography of your favourite guy! Happy reading :))

[catilinas]

Can you recommend any non-fiction books about roman history for someone looking to get a little bit deeper into it?

yeah! do also check my book rec tag because ive probably answered something similar to this at Some point. also bear in mind this is specific to the roman republic (and tbh mostly the late republic) because i just do not care. like rome kept happening but who Give a shit. look at it. it's got emperors. anyway

a companion to the roman republic ed. nathan rosenstein and robert morstein-marx and the cambridge companion to the roman republic ed. harriet i. flower are both absolutely massive and full of v good introductions to a variety of topics! get basic understanding of a thing! nice!

some specific Books I Like on individual topics: the rise of rome: from the iron age to the punic wars by kathryn lomas covers the earliest roman Anything up to the third century And grounds that history in the context of what was going on in the rest of italy at the time. roman republics by harriet i. flower is about different ways of periodising the history of the republic(s?) and in doing so gives a good overview of major changes to the political system. party politics in the age of caesar by lily ross taylor is Quite Old but imo still holds up as an introduction at least.

you could also consider Picking A Guy and reading a biography. love it when a life is put into the context of wider history while also existing as a more coherent narrative on which to pin that history. some that are fun are sulla: the last republican by arthur keaveney, the patrician tribune by w. jeffrey tatum about clodius pulcher (the introduction is also suchhhhhh a good summary of 'party' politics and why that's not a great way to think about it!), clodia metelli: the tribune's sister by marilyn b. skinner about clodius' sister who was maybe also lesbia from catullus' poetry, cato the younger: life and death at the end of the republic by fred k. drogula, fulvia: playing for power at the end of the roman republic by celia e. schultz (i have been meaning to read this one lol), and brutus: the noble conspirator by kathryn tempest.

my anti-recommendation is rubicon by tom holland No i have not read it Yes i think it sucks. L + i have been shown excerpts of the bad prose + the republic had fallen apart way before caesar crossed the rubicon + the author has a whole bunch of bad takes + read attis (1996) instead

[ghoul-haunted]

Plutarch's Crassus (trans. Seager) / Sulla: The Last Republican, Arthur Keaveney

[perseusapologist]

Lucullus: A Life, Arthur Keaveney

[seppohater]

24, 43

24. Name a song that puts you in your feels.

Far from me // Nick Cave and the Badseeds

43. What are some books on your to-read list?

Man there are so many I love books so much but,

Good Omens // Terry Prachett

The Monk // Matthew Lewis

Dead Souls // Nikolai Gogol

Sulla // Arthur Keaveney

[pineas2]

Arthur Keaveney, Sulla – The Last Republican

[p-clodius-pulcher]

Save me Arthur Keaveney’s biography on Sulla save me… every time I revisit it I’m astonished anew at how Keaveney writes about Sulla like I can imagine him kicking his feet and giggling when he wrote this biography. He understands me.

[brother-emperors]

HAPUNAN MO ANG AKING KATAWAN

I can't...stop thinking about Sulla dedicating his memoirs to Lucullus.......what the fuck.....

Plutarch, Lucullus (trans. Scott-Kilvert)

Lucullus: A Life, Arthur Keaveney

I will probably redesign Lucullus the next time I draw him, but we are. getting somewhere. I want to give him darker hair, I think. but mostly this comic is because I've been playing U-Know's Reality Show album pretty regularly since it was released and Vuja De is one of those songs that really hits when I think about relationships people had with Sulla (either in the positive, negative, or generally kind of messy). it Inspires, it Compels, and I also just wanted to do a 9-panel grid layout because it's been awhile since I've done one. they're Satisfying

[garland-on-thy-brow]

“And now… back to this bitch who said Sulla can’t do diplomacy. Debevoise, what's good?” -  Arthur Keaveney, Roman Treaties with Parthia circa 95-circa 64 B.C.

[tuyensinh]

Cáo phó Arthur Keaveney

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[blairemclaren]

Dr Arthur Keaveney Death | Cause of Death - Dr Arthur Keaveney Obituary

Dr Arthur Keaveney Death | Cause of Death – Dr Arthur Keaveney Obituary

Dr Arthur Keaveney Death | Dr Arthur Keaveney Obituary – School of European Culture and Languages has lost a very dear colleague of theirs in the person of Dr Arthur Keaveney.

According to School of European Culture & Languages at Kent (@UniKentSECL) on the 26th of June 2020, Dr Arthur Keaveney died on Tuesday, 23rd of June 2020. The cause of death was not stated.

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