#brixia

[michael-svetbird]

MINERVA's Head: Roman copy of a Greek original 1 - 2 AD Greek medium-grained white marble Found at the Brixia Forum area From Brixia Capitolium "..discovered in the area during the 19th century excavations.. would originally have had helmet[s] [perhaps in bronze].. not survived." [txt ©BAP]

Brixia Archaeological Park in Brescia | BAP

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[the-lunar-library]

TO THE RAVENS

All of the character portraits together -- all of the major-ish characters. I'm really pleased with how this series came out, and it's so nice seeing them all collected like this.

Akantha / Alexandros / Genesius

Kokkonas / Tanais / Buca

Brixia / Karyai / Pas

Lykedon / Galana

[sardies]

Le ragazze biancoblù schiantano Brescia

La Dinamo Women batte Brixia 81-63 con un’ottima prova corale e una Joens in grande spolvero Continue reading Le ragazze biancoblù schiantano Brescia

[tremaghi]

Benvenuto febbraio festeggiando Imbolc, il risveglio della natura.

Sona nata in febbraio, come potrei non accoglierlo a braccia aperte!Ma non solo per questo. Le giornate ci stanno regalando più luce, è il mese del Carnevale che vanta origini e tradizioni antichissime che sembrano risalire addirittura ai Saturnali della Roma antica. Il suo nome pare derivare dal latino carnem levare, ovvero “eliminare la carne”, il digiuno quaresimale imposto dalla religione…

[delinquenzanews]

La cadetta del Mogliano supera do misura il Brixia: 26-22 il finale

Nella seconda giornata del Campionato di Serie B i nostri ragazzi ottengono una vittoria importante contro una squadra molto attrezzata e ambiziosa. Partita giocata su ritmi sempre alti in cui i biancoblù sono stati bravi a non mollare mai, nonostante i 3 cartellini gialli. Mogliano gioca molto bene le fasi di conquista e muove altrettanto bene le palle al largo, da migliorare la disciplina.…

[quidcrusheu]

My friends bet that I couldn't talk to the most beautiful Beater. Wanna use their money to buy some good mocktails?

#lionessbowl #brescia #camilla #cami #bombardabrixia #wingedvictories

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[tsublue]

Unpopular asteroids in ASTROLOGY

[Always mostly recommend using Astrodienst to look up the asteroids if you don’t know where xx.]

[Also my asteroids finding post is here]

• California - 341

where you lead groups of liberal people; associated with being unoffended by alternative power relations and, relatedly alternative sexuality - Overall a field where you feel yourself as a leader and no one and nothing can hold you back from it. Like you have a strong magnet to that source - (Especially powerful if it’s placed in a fire sign) Would be really cool to know all of yours, mine is in Leo.

• Achilles - 588

Where you can accomplish great things, but only with the help of someone else.

• Adelinda - 229

Where you are more likely to hesitate or proceed this topic carefully.

• Mireille - 594

Where you are welcomed and respected for, primarily in your profession.

• Botolphia - 741

Where you easily attract women or feminine elements.

• Brigitta - 450

How you use your home; as a role in your life.

• Brixia - 521

Realm where you resist others advice and sticking strongly to your own instead.

• Burgundia - 374

Where you have a style that influences others significantly.

• Cheruskia - 568

Where you can do no wrong in the eyes of the public.

• Chlosinde - 938

Where you demonstrate high charisma or attractive qualities.

• Eichsfeldia - 442

Where despite your talent, those near you must clean up the messed you’ve made.

• Ekard - 694

Where you make an ideal social example.

• Kordula - 940

Where you are associated with high status surroundings.

• Kovacia - 867

Where your wishes will be satisfied no matter what.

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This post is a bit short, but hopefully still helpful!

I’ve had this song stuck in my head for couple of days now~

Hope you have an amazing month!

Always love, Tsunami

[limitlesslfgt]

MAGENTAHOMME. BRIXIA, ITALY.

[michael-svetbird]

THE WINGED VICTORY OF BRESCIA: Bronze statue found in 1826 at the Capitolium of Brixia site, Now - one of the symbols of Brescia preserved in the Capitolium museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitolium_of_Brixia 1 AD [H=195cm] "The … restoration of the 'Opificio delle Pietre Dure' [Ministry of Culture restoration institute based in Florence] has established that the statue was cast in the 1st c. AD in a local forge and is not an assembly of different statues but was created to be a 'Winged Victory'. The reference model is to be identified in Aphrodite Urania of the 'Cyrene type', i.e. with the goddess conceived in that specific variation of posture found in the statue of the same name from Cyrene. Other details, such as the twisting of the bust and the shape of the arms are also borrowed from Greek works of the 5th-6th c. BC. … the wings were added to transform the work into the goddess Victoria; in Rome and Constantinople there were similar works [Victory engraving a shield] in the Imperial forums." [txt ©BAP]

Brixia Archaeological Park in Brescia | BAP

Web: https://www.bresciamusei.com/en/museums-and-venues/brixia-roman-archaeological-area

IG, X : @ BresciaMusei

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[the-lunar-library]

TO THE RAVENS

Brixia, a musician, a sex worker, and – ultimately in the eyes of society – a slave. To one degree or another, all women are property under Roman law, but Brixia bears that weight in a heavier measure. An introspective woman with little need for conversation, she only says a small fraction of what she thinks about the wild things happening around her – and to her – and she says even less when it comes to her own convictions.

Click through to see her alternate portrait.

Like Kokkonas, Brixia was originally a meaner and more selfish foil to the heroine Akantha. (A running theme is that these characters grew subtler and more likable over time. Definitely a good thing. Broad strokes work for place-holders, but not for interesting characters.) Ultimately she was an intriguingly challenging character to write. She's very important to the story, but we're never in her pov and she's not very close to Akantha. Add to that that she almost never talks about herself, and it can be hard to know what she's thinking, what she's feeling, where she's coming from. We do see her reacting though, and hopefully by these indirect hints – the way she responds, the few things she does say, the things she clearly chooses not to say – the reader will get an idea of who she is.

Brixia is very loosely based on a figure in Lucian's essay “Alexander the False Prophet”, in which Lucian briefly mentions a woman named Rutilia who became romantically involved with Alexander. We don't know much about her, but she participated directly in Alexander's bogus mystic rites, on a stage kissing and embracing him in front of her actual husband, who apparently just took it.

You remember I mentioned Lord Buca was based on a statesman named Rutilianus? Because of the names' similarity, Rutilia and Rutilianus, the two characters became linked in my mind. (I see no reason to assume they were in real life.) And so Buca, along with Rutilianus, also was partially inspired by Rutilia's easily-dismissed husband. Brixia was created as a love interest for both Buca and my character Alexandros, a tension which becomes increasingly significant in the second half of the book.

Unlike Rutilia (presumably), Brixia is a slave, and that necessarily plays a big role in her arc. Similarly, she's a sex worker; it wasn't her choice, but she's been careful and prudent and, through Buca, she's managed to find some stability for herself. When it comes to ancient Rome and Greece, sex work, like midwifery, is an area of women's lives we know a bit about because men wrote about it. (Lucian in fact has a famous essay called “The Courtesans” where a bunch of sex workers dialogue together.) However, I would guess a lot of such writing by male authors is caricature; even when we have writings purported to be by sex workers themselves, historians theorize that these were still written by men in the guise of famous women. So I didn't have a wealth of historical firsthand material to draw from when trying to understand what Brixia's life might be like.

Broadly speaking, there were three types of sex workers – elite courtesans who had a small pool of clients, concubines who lived with a single partner in a sort-of-like-a-wife-but-not-exactly gray area, and (I'm using this term neutrally, just to differentiate) prostitutes, who had no official or exclusive ties to any clients. Brixia is a prostitute, so when she enters the story, she has little legal or social protection. She's not elite. She's not regarded as valuable. But she's an extremely talented musician and she's very beautiful, and she catches the eye of Lord Buca just in time to get tangled up in this strange new cult he's involved in. Brixia knows how to keep her head down and play along, but it might not be enough to keep her safe as things around her grow stranger and stranger.

Here she is with her makeup. We don't have a lot of info about (or I didn't find many examples of) how exactly cosmetics looked during this period, though we know they were used. (In one of his essays, Lucian whines about women wearing too much of it.) White (sometimes lead-based) powder was popular, reminding me of geisha as well as the court aesthetics of the Elizabethans. I don't know if they used it this heavily, so it was something of a creative choice. Once she's brought into Buca's household, Brixia scales back the makeup and prefers (and is allowed) to go bare-faced.

As for her natural features, I wanted her to be very beautiful. Blond hair was absolutely coveted at the time, and her long hair distinguishes her from the native Kynthian women. She's supposed to give an impression of gently flowing curves and soft colors, rather dove-like.

Like Genesius, Brixia was one of the hardest characters to name. In a lot of my notes, she's just labeled as Rutilia, but I never had any intention of naming her that. There are other sex workers in the novel and they have names pulled directly from Lucian's own courtesan characters, but I wanted Brixia to stand out. I wanted something romantic, even fanciful, and early ideas included Altana (“a southwestern wind”), Laeta (“joyful”), Fauna, Adria, and Laelia. For a long time, she went by Cithara; slaves sometimes had names relating to their occupations, and she plays the kithara (a stringed instrument), the Latin form being cithara. She was Cithara for quite a while, but I ended up leaning away from it.

And then, among my list of names, I also added Brixia, and at some point it stuck. Brixia is the Latin name for the city of Brescia, which in the past was part of Gaul.

Why Brixia? My roundabout answer is that in addition to reading through Lucian and lots of nonfiction, I also read some historical fiction set during the Roman empire, in an effort to absorb more of the flavor of the period. And a lot of it was from the 1800s; excavations into the ruins of Pompeii and the catacombs of Rome whipped up audiences' interest, and so you had lots of authors diving head-first into this period. And one trend I noticed was that they often named enslaved characters after geographical regions, implying that many slave owners, acquiring a new slave, simply called them by the area they'd come from. Nothing I saw in my nonfiction research confirmed this, but I saw it often enough to figure there's some basis.

I liked the sound of Brixia, and now I had a reason for it: She was born and captured in Gaul, her birthname a secret that no one thinks to ask for. Possibly Brixiana (“woman from Brixia”) would have been more correct, but I like Brixia better.

[gasparodasalo]

Pietro Gnocchi (1689-1775) - Trio Sonata No. 13 for Oboe, Violin and Continuo in d-minor, IV. Allegro. Performed by Brixia Musicalis on period instruments.

[tutyayilmazz]

the brixia girls got really cool matching tattoos 🥹 a tinkerbell for each (their nickname "fate" = fairies in italian) but the coolest part is each one has the shorthand symbol for a skill below it 🥹🥹

Elisa: chow half

Giorgia: tuck full

Martina: BHS loso loso

Asia: FTDLO

Alice: triple twist

[casspurrjoybell-13]

MAGENTAHOMME, BRIXIA ITALY.

@limitlesslfgt

[freifraufischer]

In case you were relaxing thinking that Brixia/the Italian fed couldn't possibly break a third gymnast before worlds check out Andreoli's training DTY.

[onlyhurtforaminute]

CADAVERIC CREMATORIUM-BRIXIA CHAINSAW MASSACRE3

[darthmelyanna]

A thing I’ve observed from looking at Italian league scores:

Brixia is the dominant team in Serie A. The five members of last year’s Euros team that stomped all over everyone are all with Brixia. This team is winning league meets by 8-10 points. And they’re doing it with difficulty. It’s early March and they’re chucking dramatically harder vaults and averaging a full point more in difficulty on every bars and beam routine.

This is the root of Italy’s pacing problem. Someone thinks they have to win a domestic league by comical margins. This is no way to keep your athletes healthy.