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discoursets · 2 months
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day at the flea market! 🩶
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culturevulturette · 8 months
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As a Californian, I can assure you that this is true.
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illustratus · 16 days
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Battle Scene with Varus falling on his sword during the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
by Martin Disteli
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leona-florianova · 2 years
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Archeological Dig Makes Groundbreaking Find!
"It's simply extraordinary. Just wonderful, to think of the history attached to it, and that we're the first to see it in such a long time," says Dr Odernort. 
 Just earlier this week, the team led by the internationally eminent expert in early post-War cultures made known their crucial discovery.
 One of the earliest depictions of Augustus Gaius Martis, better known as Tacitus during his father's rule from 170 Post-War to 204 PW, this fresco was found in what we assume to be the original Temple of Flagstaff, the name of the Legion capital during that culture group's early expansion phase. From the elements present here, it is probable that this depicts a call to war, or imploring the manifestation of Mars, their god incarnated through his descendants, to bring down the double-headed bear - itself a symbol of another culture of that age, the New California Republic. The conflict depicted must be the Battles of the Hoover Dam, circa the year 203 PW. Incredible, to think that this religious œuvre survived so long.
The materials have been locally sourced. The building itself of the Temple was Pre-War, and earlier archeological digs have shown it used to be a museum. Paint might have been reused, but early isotope tests have shown most of it was made during that time. It is safe to consider that the paint itself was especially made for this fresco, and the others that adorned the Temple.
Dr Odernort and local art historians have noticed the symbolism here close to that of a type of pre-War religious art, such as a winged figure called Michael, spearing a creature known as a "demon". This raises the question as to how much the elites of Legion knew of pre-War cultures, or if that was knowledge lost very early on. Did Legion people consider their Caesar to be a protector? How much of pre-War thought was incorporated into their culture and religion? Without similar pieces to compare it to, we can only speculate today. Hopefully, says Dr Odernort, "we will discover much more from that age in the local ruins. So little is known about Tacitus as a person, rather than the reforms he spearheaded." And, perhaps, we will understand more from that period of time in early Four-States and Vegasian cultures. 
​- mademoisellegush​
*a commission for @mademoisellegush 
Tac is very interesting character to draw and to learn more about. So thank you for commissioning me again. o/ 
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Vesuvius in Eruption, 1817-20
“The shuddering black cloud, broken up by twisting, trembling dispersions of fiery air, ruptured into long streaks of flame, both similar to and greater than lightning bolts.”
— Pliny the Younger, to Tacitus
(original translation)
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hyperions-fate · 5 months
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It is no use trying to escape their arrogance by submission or good behaviour [...] They plunder, they butcher, they ravish, and call it by the lying name of 'empire'. They make a desert and call it 'peace'.
Tacitus, Agricola (c. AD 98)
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gwydpolls · 7 months
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Time Travel Question 17: The Library of Alexandria (Miscellaneous Edition)
I welcome your suggestions for both Library of Alexandria and other lost works of World Literature and History, as there will be future polls.
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luidilovins · 29 days
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spoonfeeding anarchist propaganda into your grandparents fb feed 😊😊😊
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Emma Goldman
Ursula K Le Guin
Alan Moore
Tacitus
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Alan Moore again
Cormac McCarthy
Emma Goldman again
Emma Goldman again
John Keats
PJ Proudhon
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ancientorigins · 4 days
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An eminent Roman historian whose writings illuminate the intricacies of ancient Rome, Tacitus offered unparalleled glimpses into Roman society, politics and culture. His vivid narratives and moral reflections invite us to ponder the complexities of power, morality and the human condition.
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catherinesvalois · 2 years
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FAVORITE ERA 2/? ➜ THE ROMAN EMPIRE They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace. - TACITUS, THE AGRICOLA AND GERMANIA
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taciturnraccoon · 3 months
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It's Duskice's birthday, and this year she isn't muppy-sitting, thank goodness.
But it looks like she got stuck on guard duty with Saberhorn and Cyclonus. Those two sure are getting friendly 🤔
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sickfreaksirkay · 3 days
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studying latin is cool and useful and really interesting until you have to pull an all nighter to memorise roughly 70 chapters in latin of tacitus' most fundamentally dull historical writings
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culturevulturette · 1 month
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skaldish · 6 months
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Is Tacitus a reliable narrator?
No. He never even visited Germanic Europe himself.
His research was conducted through a combination of a) hitting up the library, and b) finding a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy who MAY have visited the region, and paying that person to tell him what he knew.
I don't know why Germania was written, but the entire thing reads like an argument for why the Germanic people's primitive, ass-backwards idol-worshipers is just further evidence for Rome Being The Best And Most Glorious Civilization.
I recommend looking into Ahmad ibn Fadlan's work instead.
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It's always important to look at historic documents within the context of the societal and political values that informed the writing of it, rather than in the context for how they're anthropologically important to us now. The primary purpose behind many historical documents like Germania, the Prose Edda, Gesta Danorum, etc. was political, and political writing comes with an agenda.
None of these texts are capable of giving us insight into what the Old Norse people actually valued, or how they thought about the world. That would have needed to come from them in their own words.
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uwmspeccoll · 1 year
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The Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
The Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE remains one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. Not only did the volcano destroy the economically powerful city of Pompeii, but Herculaneum, Oplontis, Stabiae were also buried and thus lost to the Roman Empire. The number of victims is unknown, but given the size of the four cities, estimates have reached over 18,000 individuals.  
Today only one first-hand account of this horrific event survives in two letters from Pliny the Younger to the Roman historian Tacitus. They are preserved as letters 6.16 and 6.20 in the collected Epistles of Pliny. Among our holdings of the works of Pliny is this 3-volume set of the Epistles with William Melmoth’s 18th-century translation edited by Clifford Herschel Moore, and printed by the Harvard University Press in an edition of 405 copies for members of The Bibliophile Society, Boston, in 1925.
While the term ‘volcanic eruption’ evokes scenes of lava and fire, the reality is much more frightening. Curiously, there is no word for volcano in the Latin language. While ancient Romans were aware of the destructive power of volcanoes, there’s some debate about whether they were aware that Vesuvius was a volcano before its eruption. Signs of the eruption began back in 62CE with a great earthquake that caused much of the city to collapse. Smaller earthquakes continued over the next 15 years until one was accompanied by the rise of a column of smoke from Mt. Vesuvius in October 79 CE. 
The hot gases that made up the column of smoke began to cool, darkening the sky, and not long after a rain of pumice began to fall, and after 15 hours ceilings began to collapse. Nevertheless, many residents chose to take shelter rather than flee. At 4am the first 500C pyroclastic surge barred down the volcano, burying Herculaneum. Six more of these surges occurred before the end of the eruption, destroying Pompeii, Oplontis, and Stabiae. 
The 17-year old Pliny was in the port town of Misenum across the Bay of Naples from the volcano at the time. Pliny’s uncle, Pliny the Elder, commander of the Roman fleet at Misenum, launched a rescue mission and went himself to the rescue of a personal friend. The elder Pliny did not survive the attempt. In Pliny the Younger’s first letter to Tacitus, he relates what he could discover from witnesses of his uncle's experiences. In a second letter, he details his own observations after the departure of his uncle.
Mt. Vesuvius is still active and according to volcanologists, erupts about every 2000 years, which would be right about now. Who will be our next Pliny the Younger?
Our copy of The Epistles of Pliny is another gift from our friend and benefactor Jerry Buff.
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– LauraJean, Special Collections Undergraduate Classics Intern
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blackswaneuroparedux · 11 months
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Liberos cuique ac propinquos suos natura carissimos esse voluit.**
- Tacitus
**Nature has willed that every man’s children and kindred should be his dearest objects.
My Loeb Classical Library books are my children.
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