Non Mortem Timemus

Anastassian. A-Level Student of Ancient History, Latin, Early-Modern History and Russian. I want to study BA Archaeology/Ancient History Combined in the future.

[its-caesar-bitch]

the aeneid but everytime vergil says pietas it gets faster

[thestripelesszebra]

The punic wars are just such good meme material

[ancient-rome-au]

[source]

[netverk]

[filmaticbby]

L'ami de mon amie (1987) dir. Éric Rohmer

[tinsnip]

Adulthood appears to be comprised mostly of:

1. sore back

2. kinda tired

3. i can do what the fuck i want~~~

3a. but mostly i’m too sore

3b. and too tired

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

4. bills

[emo-flamingo]

My hobbies include feeling shit about myself instead of going to sleep peacefully

[catilinas]

the scene where odysseus kills the suitors is very dramatic and all but like. he’s got no clothes on????

i arrive on ithaca

bow: strung

disguise: off

dick: out

[catilinas]

[emperorclaudiusofficial]

PLAYTIME IS OVER

[thoodleoo]

we really need a medical show set in ancient greece or rome like can you imagine

whenever the doctors are on clinic duty they get mad bc patients come in like “i haven’t been feeling well, i think somebody cursed me on apollo’s name” and the doctors always have to be like “you have malaria”

constant snake escapes in the hospital’s shrine to asclepius

everyone’s least favorite job is leech duty

doctor’s writing prescriptions for things like gladiator blood and crocodile poo

you know how the running joke about house md is that everyone wanted every diagnosis to be lupus and it was never lupus? that but with the wandering womb

[clodiuspulcher]

IMPERIAL PHYSICIAN GREGORIVS DOMVS takes the cases no other doctor can solve…

[nerosuggestions]

[lionofchaeronea]

Bronze portrait head of the Roman emperor Gaius, aka Caligula (r. 37-41 CE).  Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[academicssay]

You can have my Oxford comma when you pry it from my cold, dead, and lifeless hands.

[marvelocks]

reblog or like

[thinksquad-deactivated20190405]

Icelanders will soon be able to publicly worship at a shrine to Thor, Odin and Frigg with construction starting this month on the island’s first major temple to the Norse gods since the Viking age.

Worship of the gods in Scandinavia gave way to Christianity around 1,000 years ago but a modern version of Norse paganism has been gaining popularity in Iceland.

“I don’t believe anyone believes in a one-eyed man who is riding about on a horse with eight feet,” said Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, high priest of Ásatrúarfélagið, an association that promotes faith in the Norse gods.

“We see the stories as poetic metaphors and a manifestation of the forces of nature and human psychology.”

Membership in Ásatrúarfélagið has tripled in Iceland in the last decade to 2,400 members last year, out of a total population of 330,000, data from Statistics Iceland showed.

The temple will be circular and will be dug 4 metres (13ft) down into a hill overlooking the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, with a dome on top to let in the sunlight.

“The sun changes with the seasons so we are in a way having the sun paint the space for us,” Hilmarsson said.

The temple will host ceremonies such as weddings and funerals. The group will also confer names to children and initiate teenagers, similar to other religious communities.

Iceland’s neo-pagans still celebrate the ancient sacrificial ritual of Blot with music, reading, eating and drinking, but nowadays leave out the slaughter of animals. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/02/iceland-temple-norse-gods-1000-years

[verdeste]

Hundreds of Roman imperial gold coins were found today (7/9/2018) during an excavation in Como, Italy. 

[pearlescentbirdmom]

[to any deity in particular]: Hi. I’ve brought shitty alcohol, two electric candles, a chocolate bar, my many issues, and an undying love for you. Can you help me un-fuck myself?

[deity]: sighs deeply

[arthistoryfeed]

Detail of Neptune’s triumph mosaic in the frigidarium of Neptune’s baths in Ostia Antica - #Rome, Italy.