#marcus books

[tygerland]

Jenny Kroik Marcus Bookstore. 2022.

[silverwhittlingknife]

poem: "accident report in the tall, tall weeds" by ada limón

[cinematic-literature]

The Holdovers (2023) by Alexander Payne

Book title: Meditations (Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν in Ancient Greek; 180 A.D.) by Marcus Aurelius

[brother-emperors]

Moreover, Caesar was not satisfied to be over­looked at first by Sulla, who was busy with a multitude of proscriptions, but he came before the people as candidate for the priesthood, although he was not yet much more than a stripling. To this candidacy Sulla secretly opposed himself, and took measures to make Caesar fail in it, and when he was deliberating about putting him to death and some said there was no reason for killing a mere boy like him

Plutarch, Caesar

sulla's fight with caesar is extremely funny, but also very Something considering how much of sulla you see reflected in caesar's later actions. breaking news: grown man picks fight with teenager, more at 11.

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[philosophors]

“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations”

[lunastwilightblog]

Guys there’s a Volturi inspired band that’s quite successful and really, really good - I’m not even kidding. You’ve got to check out Volturian. They describe themselves on their instagram as an “Italian vampire metal band” and their band pics are parallel to New Moon & Breaking Dawn photo shoots. The music is brilliant and you’ll like it even if you don’t like metal

Check out the aesthetics of this music video:

Volturian - The Killing Joke

[sejjiplinth]

sejanus and marcus truly have one of the most insane dynamics from the franchise, like i have never been this crushed over a story between two characters in my life. 😭

i was really expecting the movie to take advantage of their past, to bring that raw emotion to the screen. because even after a whole DECADE, sejanus still remembers and cherishes marcus for what he did for him when they were children. marcus helping sejanus with his hurt finger on his own, showing him kindness, never left him. sejanus never experienced that level of generosity in the capitol, i don’t think he was treated that way ever again.

it breaks me reading their scenes in the zoo and during the questionnaire, because sejanus so desperately wants to make amends with him. but marcus has made up his mind, he doesn’t say a word to him, he doesn’t trust him, and he never gives in. the plinth’s are despised in two, sejanus being his mentor won’t change that. sejanus bringing him food, and offering it to him multiple times won’t either. sejanus goes as far as to ask coriolanus to trade tributes because marcus being his tribute is taking that much of a toll on him, while he clarifies that it’d be terrible with anyone, it’s marcus that brings him so much emotional distress.

marcus’s torture being displayed as a message, but also to get under sejanus’s skin… dr. gaul teases him about marcus’s disappearance, (most-likely) knowing they’d already caught him. and looping back to the reaping, strabo buying the district two boy… done only to shove it in his face that he could never go back to two. sabotaging him with marcus seems to be a common theme.

when marcus dies, sejanus honors him. sacrificing himself just to do so. he’d planned to die in there with him, too. and if coriolanus hadn’t been sent in, it would’ve worked. when he agrees to leave with coriolanus, he doesn’t want to go without marcus’s body.

marcus, undeniably, had a very large role in sejanus’s actions, in his resistance, and once he was gone, sejanus doesn’t have a purpose to live anymore. he tells coriolanus in part three that after the arena, he had planned to end his own life, one of his reasonings being because of what happened to marcus. and that was not the first time he’s considered suicide over marcus’s fate, he feels that guilty over him.

sejanus still keeps pictures of marcus, takes the childhood class photo where marcus is standing behind him to district twelve. ma comments on how she knew marcus’s dismay “hit him hard”. coriolanus calling sejanus dramatic over going into the arena, and sejanus reacting as if coriolanus had slapped him across the face.

they met for the first time in district two, then again in the capitol, and eventually in death. just . MY GOD!!!!!!!

[ofthebrownajah]

Marcus: The Great Hunt is one of my favorite books in the series I'm excited for Perrin's arc this season

Donal: I use the books to enhance my performance as Mat

Josha: I can't wait til Rand goes in the Box

[whatwouldmariecurieactuallydo]

[thoughtsthatstayedwithme]

Do not disturb yourself by imagining your whole life at once

-Marcus Aurelius

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Marcus Aurelius

[demigoddessqueens]

Happy birthday 🎉 🎂 🎊 to the only man ever

[brother-emperors]

revisiting crassus, clodius, and the bona dea scandal! but this time with a new composition and a limited color palette

originally when I drew the first version of this idea, it was back when I thought that crassus would be a week long fixation at most (lmao), and instead he just. took up permanent residence in my mind. it seemed like a fun thing to go back to an earlier idea and see what changed now that I've spent a lot more time with everyone involved in this era!

also the way these two interlocked politically. I am. biting into it.

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

Crassus: the First Tycoon, Peter Stothard

Crassus: A Political Biography, B. A. Marshall

Crassus, Clodius, and Curio in the Year 59 B.C., Robert J Rowland, Jr.

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[philosophors]

“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”

— Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations”

[garland-on-thy-brow]

The cultivation of the friendship may be seen in a wider context through these years as Cicero built a series of diverse relationships with a number of Rome‘s leading younger men. Dio noted Cicero‘s influence among them, and invents a speech that includes criticism of Cicero‘s overbearing relations with the younger generation: ‗this is why you are always inciting the younger men against their elders and leading those who trust you, even in the slightest degrees, into dangers, and then deserting them‘ (Dio 46.3.8).

[Tia Dawes, A Commentary on Cicero‟s Philippics 10 and 11.]

[behindthescreamz]

excerpts from the “spiral” feature in fangoria magazine vol. 2 issue #7 - written by director darren lynn bousman (april 2020)