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flavia iulia helena ❦ CIL VI 01134

#my art #saint helena #epigraphy

catilinas

many such cases :/

catilinas

this was the inscription btw

catilinas

@uglyadonis me when i forgor to add literally any context. forgive me!

it’s a funerary. thing. that says (roughly): to aulus sergius italicus. his freedmen and his son maximus set this up for their patron

it’s cringe because like. you can see from the spacing and relative letter sizes that it initially/was meant to just say the freedmen set it up on behalf of their patron. the line about the son is much smaller and has been squeezed in and they’ve had to add an et/and before liberti/freedmen. but this has made the line wonky!and also the name maximus has been spelt maxsimus.

#epigraphy

werewolfetone

History degree day 1: the past is so compelling to me. I just love learning about how our ancestors lived. and it’s so interesting how many of them had a fundamentally alien yet perhaps ultimately relatable in context mindset to our own. maybe one day I can begin to understand it?

History degree day 1000: forty martyrs of england and wales ranked by how good they would’ve been at posting on twitter

romehbo

i miss the gracchi brothers

romehbo

oh tiberius remember how we used to run

#me at roman history class every 2 minutes #doesn't help the professor chose to focus on polibius and greek microhistory #uniposting

alliethelemon734

depictions of christine de pizan from the book of the city of ladies

#cristinaaaa #christine de pizan

romehbo

its because youre always on that damn oxyrhynchus papyrus

#michi

alwaysiambic

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen in Macbeth (1976)

#m*cb*th #shakespeare tag

spring sketches (random pets, strangers, friends, colleagues and a not very accurate self-portrait thrown into the middle)

#sketchini

catched a cross-reference to "Camus 1947" in an essay on philoctetes and thought: wowie! what a coincidence! i didn't know there was a greek philologist named camus who - like the more famous novelist - also wrote his work in 1947. crazy. then i looked up the bibliography and. it was the plague. it was albert camus. i got plagued

#and by all means it looked like a reference to idk a work/commentary about the philoctetes #it said smth like: for this concept go see the beautiful beginning of camus 1947. then i looked at the footnote. and there she was smiling #myplague #ogni giorno mi sveglio e mi domando perché non sono nata critica letteraria. ma quanto si divertono i critici letterari?#tra questo jumpscare camusiano e il commento di pucci che a un certo punto inizia a delirare e dice: qui filottete ha il suo to be or not be #non so quale mi abbia strappato più un sorriso. tutto sommato mi sto divertendo tu guarda #grecoposting #philoctetes

silverspadesss

for some reason this is one of the funniest things in pentiment to me. andreas you sound deranged

#best videogame where to win a quest the only thing you have to do is be a deranged bibliophile #i miss u andreas #pentiment

Portrait of saint Helena(?) I saw a couple of weeks ago + a drawing of Helena of mine when it was still unfinished.

#anyway read helena by evelyn waugh please it's so good #i don't know why I'm thinking of her so much these days #sketchini #saint helena

petrarchesco

Leggendo l'Epistola XXI di Giovanni Boccaccio, indirizzata a Mainardo de' Cavalcanti, è difficile non riflettere sull'onomastica medievale, dato che la lettera si conclude con una preghiera di salutare Americo, Salice e Forchetta. Il fatto che nell'Italia medievale ci fosse unx Forchetta (Forchetta Cavalcanti? Sarebbe in linea con le bizzarrie onomastiche di quella famiglia, ma non si sa nulla) a piede libero mi scuote dentro. Dentro di me voglio credere che fosse semplicemente quell'amicx non-binary di Boccaccio dal nome un po' quirky.

#per dovere di cronaca ovviamente la lettera è originariamente in latino e c'è scritto proprio “Forchettam”#prev #troppo divertente l'onomastica medievale #boccaccio

lionofchaeronea

Wall painting on black background from the Roman Imperial villa at Boscotrecase, depicting an aedicula and miniature landscape. Artist unknown; last decade of the 1st cent. BCE. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

petrarchesco

Notes written by Francesco Petrarca on the margins of a 12th century manuscript of Horace's Odes (Florence, BML, Plut. 34 1).

#manuscripts

petrarchesco

Vandalic graffiti left by the Landsknechts on the frescoes of Villa Farnesina.

The Landsknechts, the german mercenaries of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, sacked Rome in May 1527 and occupied parts of the cities until the first months of 1528. During that time Villa Farnesina, the residence commissioned by the banker Agostino Chigi along the Tiber river, became a stable headquarter of the mercenaries: they inscribed dozens of graffiti on the frescoes of the Hall of the Perspectives and on the ones telling the stories of Alexander the Great painted by Il Sodoma. Most of them read the names of the soldiers that wrote them, manifestations of their loyalty towards the Emperor and mockeries towards the Pope and the Roman Church. Some of them, the ones on the Sodoma's frescoes, were only discovered in recent times, during the restorations of 2022-23.

#epigraphy

noxexistant

thinking about the bed, 1892 by henri de toulouse-lautrec featured on the wikipedia page for “blanket”

#as it should

luckism

A Franciscan monk taking a break from tending to the fields to pet a cat (2004)

Captured by photographer Steve McCurry at the Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Foresta in Rieti, Italy.

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