[antonivs]

[antonivs]

happy pride month to them and this quote in particular

[antonivs]

i bought the hbo rome yaoi set 🥰

[niemcewitch]

cut off the serpent's head

[quotes on the third picture taken from the play "sejanus: his fall" and biography "tiberius caesar" by g.p. baker]

[antonivs]

the scene in i, claudius (ep 06 - some justice) where sejanus and tiberius are talking but i added the vine boom every time they look at each other's lips

[romehbo]

this long dead historical figure is literally my close personal friend. you wouldnt get it

[antonivs]

going back to my safe place (my ancient rome boards) <3

[antonivs]

the concept of baelor taking care of drunk daeron has me in shambles

[sforzesco]

lucan's pharsalia, trans. jane wilson joyce &

appian civil wars 1.120, trans john carter

a million (several) years ago I said that in my ideal world, spartacus would have gotten the chance to gut crassus like a fish and read the fate of rome in his entrails. I also said something about spartacus' sacrifice at crixus' funeral games is like a foundational sacrifice/curse on rome. continuing that thought, there's something about how there's a narrative echo of crassus' fate in the fate that falls on spartacus (bodies unburied) and how crassus' death was a sort of death knell for that iteration of rome which was already something of a bloated corpse.

it's good to be back and thinking about spartacus, I took a brief detour a year and a half ago to get through an absolute brick of a book on sparta/lakonia and then picked up the broad topic of athens to pin down some thoughts on thrace, especially around how greece/rome perceived thracians and it's been. well. hm. so! speaking of thracians, pentheus!

The Allure and Repulsion of Thracians, Despoina Tsaifakis

which of course can bring us back to crassus

Dionysiac Tragedy in Plutarch, Crassus, David Braund

anyway, spartacus pouring blood in place of gold all over crassus (Dio 40.27)! let's do some fucked up funeral rites baby, we're cursing rome!

[antonivs]

i love interacting with ancient rome enthusiasts because everyone has their own signature guy/girl they love more than the rest, their ancient roman bias if you will

[handheldrope]

men at some time are masters of their fates

[antonivs]

mark antony on a page with two of julius caesar's main lovers, likely place for him to be

[ratstitch]

I saw someone say we should start shipping Lyonel and Daeron and the more I think about it the more in to it I am. Not just the sad drunk and the happy drunk but the Targaryen hater and the self-loathing targaryen. I dont know if they'd date but I think there hate sex would go crazy

[gutpunchlove]

daeron targaryen + little details

[emmaziadarcy]

[winterswake]

I don't care to die today. It may be that I've killed you with my lie. And if so, I'm sorry. I'm doomed to some kind of hell, I know. Likely one without wine.

HENRY ASHTON as prince Daeron The Drunken A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS 1x04 Seven

[versains]

Well, my dreams are not like yours. Mine come true.