Certamen the Novel

A novel by Madelyn Adderley. The ONLY young adult novel set in a Latin Club! https://beacons.ai/maddiewae

[draconym]

Romans will see a mouse and eat it

[p-clodius-pulcher]

When she plants her sword in you and a city centuries out of time grow out of your bones and she’s shaking with rage and regret and guilt and your hands are still clasped around her knees in supplication and you don’t know if the salt in your mouth is her sweat or your blood or her tears or just the dark earth where your father will bury you

[skarabrae-stone]

[publicdomainreview]

TFW when you pay no heed to the ides…

2066 yrs ago #onthisday Julius Caesar was assassinated. Listen to Marc Antony’s speech over Caesar’s body from Shakespeare’s play, performed with stupendous pomp by Harry Humphrey in 1914 https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/antony-s-address-over-the-body-of-caesar-1914 (Image: BLRoyal18EV) #OTD

[sforzesco]

TEXAS HOLD 'EM

But in the struggle near Rome, which was the last and greatest of all, while Sulla was defeated and his army repulsed and shattered, Crassus was victorious with the right wing,​ pursued the enemy till nightfall, and then sent to Sulla informing him of his success and asking supper for his soldiers.

Plutarch, Crassus

A Year of One's Own: Dating the Praetorship of Marcus Crassus, M. Stone

so sometimes public displays of praise are also rituals of humiliation. like, crassus was so funny for that, but oh boy. watch out!

also! for an additional layer of rome & her civil war related thoughts, that statue crop in the second panel is Carpeaux's Ugolino and His Sons. the mouth of rome which devours etc etc.

[astirastyr]

an inspo as always, gorgeous work!

[starsandsteelandbrokenglass]

Jason, having seen Medea kill and dismember her brother and also kill Pelias for him: Probably I can just divorce her

[thatlittleegyptologist]

I’m a simple woman. I see “Vesuvius eruption turned man’s brain to glass” and it immediately holds my attention.

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Man's brain turned to glass by Vesuvius volcano ash cloud

The pea-sized brain was found in the skull of a 20-year-old man killed in the volcanic eruption.

[hunter-rodrigez]

Is he okay?

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Yeah he'll be fine. Walked it off actually.

[astirastyr]

It was bound to happen, my friends…

For context: Somewhere—I don’t remember the exact source—I once read that during the festival of Bona Dea, even images of men were covered. This inspired me to explore a slightly symbolic idea

Some variations below the crop!

Thank you for commissioning me sweetheart @p-clodius-pulcher 😭😭

[courtjester69420]

I’m taking the ides of March away from this site until you guys understand anything about Roman history

[thoodleoo]

[goldenzingy46]

idk if this is anything but you can kind of view aeneas as a man that's unstuck from time. he sees the ghost of hector. he takes his eyes off his wife and she's now a ghost. he finds carthage, a city that won't be founded for hundreds of years. he carries the future of rome, he sees people not yet born when he's in the underworld. and so forth

[thoodleoo]

the only roman emperor i respect is honorius because, during his reign, rome was sacked, and when someone brought him the news that rome had perished he freaked out bc he thought they were talking about his pet bird named "rome," and when they explained that they were talking about the city he was like "oh thank god. who gives a shit"

[kamenriderhamo]

shouldve called his ass hilarious

[jentucker]

"At that time they say that the Emperor Honorius in Ravenna received the message from one of the eunuchs, evidently a keeper of the poultry, that Rome had perished. And he cried out and said, 'And yet it has just eaten from my hands!' For he had a very large cock, Rome by name; and the eunuch comprehending his words said that it was the city of Rome which had perished at the hands of Alaric, and the emperor with a sigh of relief answered quickly: 'But I thought that my fowl Rome had perished.' So great, they say, was the folly with which this emperor was possessed." —Procopius, The Vandalic War (III.2.25–26)

[celestial-moths]

He had a what?!?!

[jewishpangolin]

[mariakono]

Daedalus: well shucks son looks like we’re lost in there labyrinth of me conception

Icarus: that’s so bogus pops

Daedalus: what do ye think my good friend Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix: There Must Be Some Kind Of Way Out Of Here

[victusinveritas]

Sack of Rome by goths, 410.

[clarabeau]

Instructions for how to download a Youtube video using VLC on Reddit

Instructions for how to navigate the underworld on an Orphic gold tablet

[finelythreadedsky]

 On one level the book is about the life of a woman who is hardly more than a token in a great epic poem, on another it’s about how history and context shape how we are seen, and the brief moment there is to act between the inescapable past and the unknowable future. Perhaps to write Lavinia Le Guin had to live long enough to see her own early books read in a different context from the one where they were written, and to think about what that means.

-Jo Walton

[finelythreadedsky]

#thinking of how her last four novels between 2004 and 2008 show a progressive blossoming of interest in classical literary traditions#following nearly half a century's worth of a career where she seems to actively avoid the influence of classical or medieval europe#idk. but i think this explains annals of the western shore as much as lavinia.#she gets so interested in what it means to share the same stories across space and time (and class and gender and nationality)#to be united in a community by having the same poetry#and in such an obvious way thinking about classics as a discipline is an incredible way to work through that#and i do think its an interest that must come out of having witnessed her own work unite people in community across time#if you're talking about the way stories and poems bring people together across time...#i read the texts passed on to me by renaissance humanists and 19th century philologists and byzantine monks and late antique scribes...#and they're the same across time and space but they're also not#and to have seen her own work reach people across space and time and be the same but also not... that must have been incredible#so: did living long enough to see her own early books read in a different context and to think about what that means#drive her to think about classical literature as she clearly was for the better part of a decade?

[onthedriftinthetardis]