My Ancient World.

Explore the ancient world of Greece and the Roman Empire, one post at a time! Any photos used aren't mine unless stated, and feel free to ask a question, or make a request. "Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them". - Marcus Aurelius -TWITTER: @myancientworld

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achilles: when I die, mingle our ashes together so that we may be together for eternity

historians: f is for friends who do stuff together

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A little about me...

I graduated from a London university back in 2013 with a 2:1 in Classical Civilisation. I work in publishing now and am also a freelance writer (mostly travel). My heart is still with the ancient world, though, and I am forever swooning over crumbling columns, romantic temples and badass goddess quotes.

I’m really interested in taking on freelance writing/editing work for the heritage industry so if you think I might be a good fit for a project or article, please get in touch with me on here! 

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Bronze balsamarium (cosmetics container), Greek and Roman Art

Medium: Bronze

Rogers Fund, 1911 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248478

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Source. 

This papyrus fragment contains three lines from Book 20 from Homer’s Odyssey. This piece dates back to the early Hellenistic period, around 285-250BC.

Book 20 is when tensions are almost at their highest: Odysseus is fearful at the high number of suitors he and Telemachus will have to overcome, and the suitors themselves start to rumble with Ctesippus lugging a cow’s hoof at Odysseus. This, and the eagle carrying a dove in its talons, are all symbolic of the growing tension of what will follow in the next few books.

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Julius Caesar caffeineinthebloodstream answered: julius caesar!

Been a while since I wrote one of these! ABOUT TIME! So lets get ancient here and check out this sexy Roman dictator. He has quite a beautifully sculpted face, and I don’t just mean that literally.

Julius Caesar was born in Rome in 100 BC. He was incredibly political savvy. In 61-60 BC, he served as governor of the Roman province of Spain, then when he returned to Rome his buddies helped him get elected as consul for 59 BC. The following year he was appointed governor of Roman Gaul, gathered up modern France and Belgium and added it to his Roman empire collection.

He hung out in Britain for a while, and when he came back to Italy there was all a big civil war going down, but he rocked that shit. Pompey, the republican leader, fled to Egypt where he was assassinated. Caesar followed him, and it was there that he fell in love with the sexy Egyptian queen, Cleopatra. Oh my, Julius. Getting scandalous.

Anyway, Caesar was now master of Rome and made himself dictator for life in 44 BC. He used his power to carry out much-needed reform, and his ambition allowed him to do be quite successful in doing so. His popularity really alienated and quite frankly pissed off the republican senators, so group of these, led by Cassius and Brutus, assassinated Caesar on the Ides (15) of March 44 BC. This event sparked the final round of civil wars that ended the Republic and brought about the elevation of Caesar’s great nephew and designated heir, Octavian, as Augustus, the first emperor.

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Thank you so much. Wish you all the best and good luck!

Aw, thank you XD

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It's a great shame you're leaving. One of my fave blogs. Really hope you come back. Much luck and health. - John Paul

Thank you! It's a shame I'll have to leave it for a little while :( Who knows what'll happen!

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It is with great regret...

... To announce that I will no longer be posting on this blog. It's certainly the end of an era for me, as you've all followed me on the journey throughout my three years at University, graduation, and into the real world.

As I wrote on an earlier blog post, I quit my job a few months ago. Since then, or perhaps slightly before then, I've been unsure as to what I want to do with my life. I hate feeling as if I'm 'wasting time' by doing something I don't enjoy, and teaching has been a profession that has taken my interest as of late. So in the next couple of weeks, I will be flying from London to China, to be a primary school English teacher over there.

It has been a struggle for the past few months trying to find the time to get on here and create postings with the amount of training, packing, organising etc. I was doing in preparation for this trip! I'll be really busy out there anyway and don't particularly want to spend a lot of time on the internet, so rather than letting my blog dwindle with activity, I am just going to stop posting altogether.

I'm going to leave the blog up though, so it won't be deleted- but as this blog was my creation, I don't want to pass on the 'admin duties' to anyone else! 

When I started this blog, I truly had no idea it would ascend into such popularity. The heights that this blog has reached has been a delight; I was just bored one afternoon at University and wanted to post about my passion; the classical world. I was going through my I-Love-Socrates phase too and remember one of my first postings being about him. The amount of likes, reblogs, and followers this blog has attained has been more than I could've ever imagined and I'd like to THANK YOU ALL so much for ALL your support, I truly didn't realise how much interest there still was in the Classical world. What a wonderful thing!

Best of luck to you all for the future, and who knows, perhaps I'll be back another time in the future!

P.S: Here are the final statistics:

Total followers: 2,381 Total postings: 1,244

Goodbye, and thank-you for the past few years... lots of love, A x

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Upper tier : cat with a partridge in her mouth; lower tier: ducks (on the left a male Eurasian Teal, on the right a Common Shelduck), birds, fish and shellfish. Roman mosaic.

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Hellenistic gold olive wreath diadem Circa 3rd Century BC

The diadem composed of sheet gold over a tubular core, decorated with several long spear-shaped leaves with impressed veins and delicate hollow gold fruits, all attached to the core with twisted gold wire, a composition of four larger leaves and four berries at the centre.

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"I don’t know, there’s something about eggs resulting from divine love making that just tastes better…" -K 

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