Aug 4, 2022
Her enigmatic homoeroticism and effrenata audacia captivated me.
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Her enigmatic homoeroticism and effrenata audacia captivated me.
Idk if its because they’re all I’ve been reading for the past two weeks or because I’m analysing them for theatrics but damn. Catilinarian Orations kinda dumb huh!
Cicero Accusing Catiline in the Senate - Cesare Mariani (1882)
Can’t find much information about this image online, but it was painted for the same competition that was one by the more famous painting with the same subject by Cesare Macari. This painting might be more historically accurate though, in that the senate on this occasion met in the grounds of the temple of Jupiter Stator (the site and layout of which are not definitely known, but which, I suppose, have contained a courtyard?), rather than the senate house, as depicted by Macari. Also, Macari gives the senate house a curved wall, which was not the case.
Also, the figure of Catiline in this painting looks as if it has been erased somehow? I don’t know what’s going on with that?
📜 VOCI DI ROMA 📜
CICERONE VS CATILINA
"Fino a quando, Catilina, intendi dunque abusare della nostra pazienza? Per quanto tempo ancora questo tuo comportamento fazioso si prenderà gioco di noi? Fino a che punto si spingerà la tua illimitata sfrontatezza? Non ti turbano il presidio notturno a difesa del Palatino, le pattuglie armate che perlustrano la città, l'angoscia del popolo, l'accorrere di tutti i cittadini onesti e neppure la scelta di questa sede - così difesa - per le riunioni del Senato? Non ti accorgi che i tuoi progetti sono scoperti? [...] O tempora! O mores! Il Senato è al corrente di questi progetti, il console ne è consapevole: eppure lui continua a vivere. A vivere? Non solo, ma addirittura viene in Senato, gli si permette di prendere parte alle decisioni d'interesse comune, osserva ciascuno di noi e con un'occhiata gli assegna un destino di morte. Quanto a noi siamo convinti di fare abbastanza per la cosa pubblica vanificando i furiosi tentativi assassini di costui. Ti si sarebe dovuto condannare a morte già in precedenza".
✍️Cicerone, Prima orazione contro Catilina (8 novembre del 63 a.C.), I, 1-2 (a cura di Elisabetta Risari), Mondadori, Milano 2009.
(Nell'immagine: Cicerone pronuncia in Senato la prima Catilinaria, affresco di Cesare Maccari, conservato a Roma, Palazzo Madama, Sala Maccari).
Ok there is an article that goes like - Catilinarian aesthetic and Catullan aesthetic are the same aesthetic. And Sempronia's nickname in Saylor is Sappho. So like. Lesbia.
So player character in A Courtesan of Rome has just gotten through the locked door of the guy they mean to assassinate with the help of a lockpicking monkey. What I'm getting at is: GET CETHEGUS A MONKEY. Looking at you Catiline. Buy your boyfriend a monkey NOW.
@ruddydrops I am absolutely prosopographing the dating sim!!!
Syme wishes he was me I wish I were the Gay Sempronia and also Catilinarian dating sim when (based mainly on Steven Saylor and George Croly, with fun takes from other media too).
The conspiracy of Catiline, aka a dnd party that just Keeps rolling crit fails.