felix se nescit amari.

“o felix, si te vel sic tua roma videret” olive • 23 • they/she • aro/ace • classics undergrad • artist

[pompeiusliker]

Roma on film

by me <3

[probuccalfat]

you people will make anybody a daddy dom it’s so scary

[corporialus]

Some of my favorite silver coins!!!!

[pompeiusliker]

where’s my devastating piece of scholarship on the bond between soldiers and their general in the roman military?

[hornydeicideenjoyer]

It's called the Horus Heresy

[pompeiusliker]

peace and love I mean smth I can academically cite

[hornydeicideenjoyer]

Don't you know that the Horus Heresy is 100% historically accurate?

The friendly commissar told me thus

[pompeiusliker]

how is it for representations of militaristic honour? because personally I view it (among other things) as a deceptive ideology which is designed to provide meaning to what would otherwise be meaningless suffering. this is not a positive analysis on my part and I am strictly against militarism in all its forms. from an outside perspective the warhammer universe seems to present honour as a real and attainable concept rather than a fiction created to rationalize harm.

[pompeiusliker]

heyy do you have any recommendations on books concerning Pompey? biographies preferably :)

Hi! if you’re looking for biographies Robin Seagar’s biography of Pompey is the best in my opinion! He’s very balanced in his portrayal of him.

Honestly other than him the other Pompey bios i’ve read have been a little evil (or a lot in Greenhalgh’s case) in one way or another, so Seagar is the only one I can really recommend.

[pompeiusliker]

foucault should have written a terrifying book on the emotional aspects of the roman military and its power dynamics

[yellows-secret-blog]

Can't he still?????

I thought he was still alive.... Let me Google that

[pompeiusliker]

pls somebody help me resurrect him so that he can write a book on the generals of the late republic and early empire

[pompeiusliker]

where’s my devastating piece of scholarship on the bond between soldiers and their general in the roman military?

[hornydeicideenjoyer]

It's called the Horus Heresy

[pompeiusliker]

peace and love I mean smth I can academically cite

[pompeiusliker]

foucault should have written a terrifying book on the emotional aspects of the roman military and its power dynamics

[pompeiusliker]

i will not lie, i love it when my romans are having a terrible time

[luciuscorneliussulla]

i'm sulla and i love war

[pompeiusliker]

where’s my devastating piece of scholarship on the bond between soldiers and their general in the roman military?

[synfullewrecche]

logging onto woundblr and seeing all the pain on my gashboard

[pompeiusliker]

aroace lucretius

[pompeiusliker]

[pompeiusliker]

this can’t be happening

[dumnslut]

[guiigemar]

never met a sentence i couldn't make incredibly long