#roman culture

[thesilicontribesman]

The Wolf and Romulus and Remus Mosaic, Roman Aldborough, North Yorkshire, 300-400CE, Leeds City Museum.

This panel formed the centrepiece of a large mosaic floor constructed in the Roman town of Isurium Brigantum, now Aldborough in North Yorkshire. The mosaic depicts the legend of Romulus and Remus. They were abandoned in the River Tiber but washed ashore where they were fed by a she-wolf.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Bronze portrait bust of a man

Roman

ca. 50 BCE-54 CE

[factoidfactory]

Random Fact #6,529

One of the first questions the Romans would ask new cultures they came across was “Who are your gods?”.

They would then send statues of those gods to Rome to be put in a building called the Pantheon so the gods could be worshipped.

They even had a statue dedicated to unknown gods to avoid causing offence.

[uncleclaudius]

Although today we have mostly marble statues and exquisite cameos left of the portrayals of the emperors, their images were in fact ubiquitous throughout the empire, like in this cookie mould celebrating the triumph of Marcus Aurelius.

[virromanus]

The Roman Empire at present day, if it had not fallen. To view more of my Digital Creations, ❤️ my Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/historythatneverhappened

[ross-nekochan]

One hour away from Naples, there's a little Athens.

Paestum (SA), Italy~

[gemsofgreece]

I'm not the same person as the one who asked about Thracia, but, if it's not much trouble: I've heard people talk about local cults of Ares in many Ancient Greek towns (obv. not in Athens, but you know that haha)... would you call Ancient cults of Ares agricultural rather than war cults, aside from Sparta? Or was there an aspect to Ares people tend to forget about that drove people to devote to an unpopular deity, aside from some sort of apotropaic function? Thank you!

Surely we have to remember that the Ancient Greek "world" was much larger and many different realities occured in it simultaneously. We usually examine everything through the lens of Athens and south mainland Greece at best but things could be a lot different in remote or distant regions, separated by seas and mountains.

Ares was overall mostly perceived as a god of war but in Anatolia he was often perceived also as a hero and an oracle, ultimately viewed more positively than in south Greece. Ares was also more loved in more northern Greece, particularly in Epirus and Thessaly. Ares was also worshipped more in places that were often suffering from pirate attacks. I wasn't able to find sources about him having an agricultural aspect though.

The Roman Mars was a patron of agriculture instead and Mars is equated to Ares but they are not identical. For example, Mars had a far more important role in the Roman pantheon, being one of the most worshipped gods , unlike how most Greeks viewed Ares. So it makes sense that Romans relied on mighty Mars to protect their crops, since they valued him this much (war and agriculture, the foundation of Rome's power?). For Greeks it would not make as much sense to attribute the crops protection to the temperamental and ferocious Ares.

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ᴛʏᴘᴇs ᴏғ 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑 ɪɴ ᴀɴᴄɪᴇɴᴛ ɢʀᴇᴇᴄᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ʀᴏᴍᴇ

In both Ancient Greek and Latin literature we can find three types of anger. Even if they can seem similar they differ from each other mostly for what causes them; whereas in latin these three angers are connected and are the source of one another, in greek they are separated and are caused by different things.

Lets see them:

μῆνις (mênis): wrath, anger that lasts. The same anger Achilles feels in the opening of the Iliad.

ὀργή (orgē): fury, caused voluntary; thanks to drugs and alcohol the use of reason is lost. Characteristic of bacchantes (maenad): in their Dionysian rituals they assumed narcotic substances. From this word also comes the word "orgy".

χόλος (chòlos): momentary anger. From this word comes the word "colon".

Seneca recognise three stages that lead to anger:

rabies: momentary anger. (My sibling eats the last slice of pizza, my slice of pizza, I'm angry because of that, but after some time I'm not angry anymore)

ira: anger that lasts. (I'm still angry with my sibling for eating my slice of pizza, I will make 'em pay for what they did)

furor: loss of reason, caused by lack of control (I'm too angry, I can’t control my self, how my sibling dared to eat my pizza?!? I k!ll them for what they did)

They form from the deponent verb irascor.

(no sibling has been hurt in the making of this post)

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[gawrkin]

Some Roman Laws (Lex Julia) just to be completely different.

[blueiskewl]

Ancient Tortoise and Her Egg Discovered in Pompeii

When Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago Pompeii's ancient residents were frozen in place by ash.

So too it turns out were the city's flora and fauna - including a pregnant tortoise with her egg.

Archaeologists found the reptile's remains buried under ash and rock where it had lain undiscovered since 79AD.

The tortoise was sheltering beneath an already-destroyed building when volcanic disaster struck.

Archaeologists found the remains while excavating an area of the city that its ancient inhabitants had been rebuilding after an earlier earthquake devastated Pompeii in 62AD.

Around 2,000 years ago the 14cm (5.5in) tortoise had burrowed into a tiny underground lair beneath a shop destroyed in that earlier quake.

Experts say the fact it was found with an egg suggests it was killed while trying to find somewhere peaceful to lay its offspring.

Oxford University archaeologist Mark Robinson, who discovered the remains of another tortoise at a nearby Pompeii site in 2002 said there were two explanations for how the reptile had got there.

"One is that it is a pet tortoise that possibly escaped and made its way on to what were the ruins of the great earthquake," he said.

A likelier possibility is that it was a tortoise from the nearby countryside that had wandered into the ancient city, he said.

"Pompeii was substantially wrecked and not everywhere could be rebuilt after the earthquake. The flora and fauna from the surrounding countryside had moved into the town."

Experts say the discovery illustrates the richness of Pompeii's natural ecosystem in the period after the earthquake.

"The whole city was a construction site, and evidently some spaces were so unused that wild animals could roam, enter and try to lay their eggs," said Pompeii's director general, Gabriel Zuchtriegel.

One visitor to Pompeii, a Finnish PhD student who happened to be passing by the site when the discovery was made, described what he saw  as "spectacular."

"They had just removed the shell of the animal, so what was visible was the skeleton and the egg," Joonas Vanhala said. "It was a light-brown, sandy colour."

"I wouldn't have recognised it as an egg if they hadn't told me," he added.

By Leo Sands

[thesilicontribesman]

Victoria Road Roman Pavement from Corinium Museum, Cirencester.

Part of a much larger pavement; twelve octagonal panels would have existed but only three survive today.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Panther depicted in the Roman fresco from the Villa of Cicero (Villa di Cicerone) in Pompeii (1-79 AD),

Joseph Paget-Fredericks, The Marchesa (Luisa Casati) walking her pet cheetahs, ca. 1940s

The nereid on a sea-beast/sea-panther, Roman, Pompeii, 1st H. 1st cen. AD.

[mooka97]

Roman Theater, Alexandria 💚

[viagginterstellari]

Latin inscription carved in stone - Tiddis, 2022

[nickysfacts]

Remember that Greek and Roman art continues to be both figuratively and literally whitewashed.🎨

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