#julia caesar

[augustaviancaesar]

Julia the Elder:

[duxfemina]

Julia Caesaris is so overlooked it makes me wanna scream. She managed to have a happy marriage in a time when that just wasn't much of a thing. Given Cleopatra spent 3 years as a tween in her house we can only assume she mentored the future Pharaoh or at the very least provided tons of information on the Caesars given that's her gens and Julius is her dad so you just know Cleopatra sponged up all this info and used it a few years later when she went to Caesar for help. She was a patroness of the arts and got her husband into them and her death changes the entire course of western history.

Like her death has a greater impact on our world today than Cleopatra's did but absolutely no one talks about her

[sequencer987]

@nakedandasnake and I were watching an Italian Sword and Sandal movie called Caesar the Conqueror. Since it’s been in the public domain for a while, several people had already uploaded the full film to YouTube. Snake usually prefers to watch films with the subtitles on, but the only available captions were the auto generated ones that YouTube provides. We soon learned that YouTube captions aren’t really fine tuned to pick up Ancient Roman and Gaulish names. Here are a few highlights from the night:

Gaius - Guys, Guile, and Guy.

Valerius - Hilarious.

Pompey - Bumpy.

Scribonius - Scribonius (It got that one right somehow).

Vercingetorix - Very Generous, Various General, Versus Generous, Versus Jesters.

Quintus Cicero - Quinta Sister, Quinta Cicero, Sissy, Quince Sister, Quinton Says.

Caius- Kaios, Flies, Crying.

Gaul- Gall, Call.

Italia (The Towel. It only did this once though).

Caius Opio - Guys open.

The highlight of the film for us was when the captions called the Germanians Jungkook. Absolutely serious. Link to the movie if you want to see for yourself.

It also had a very melodramatic scene where Caesar is dictating three letter at once. The letters to Cicero and the Senate are about how the conquest is going and negotiating Publia’s marriage, and the letter to his wife is basically paragraph after paragraph of “I hate the Senate and the Senate wants to kill me and I hate Cicero and I hate Pompey and I’m probably going to fucking die here and please don’t tell Cicero that I secretly think he should go fuck himself and also I am going to save democracy.”

[julius-caeser]

feeling cute, might marry of my only child to my policatal rival to further my alliance

[freecandyman]

Julia, dressed for winter, showing off her chatelaine

I’ve maybe? Shown this off before? But the coat is new, anyway. Pattern from @requiemart

[zhugeliangs]

She was such a light, like a clear, shining flame...

The Valiant, Lesley Livingston, p.350

[duxfemina]

I'm normally the last person to feel bad for Julius Caesar but... The man lost his mother and his daughter within less than a month of each other. Which means message service being what it was back then, he more than likely heard about both around the same time. Like the same packet of dispatches probably carried both letters. Can you imagine? The woman who stood between you and a dictator and the woman who's currently your main anchor to security in Rome both gone. It can't have been a great time for Julius' mental health and I just wanna give him a hug wrap him in blankets and make him cups of tea and maybe make him promise not to get all dictator-ey...

-------

Because Lord knows Aurelia would have absolutely called him on that crap. Can you imagine? He gets to the Rubicon and it's just Aurelia wearing mourning clothes giving him pointed looks over the distress he's caused. I strongly feel the whole "I'm not mad at you for disappointing me I'm just gonna be dramatic about it until you feel bad and do the right thing" mind game tactic that Julius used on his troops whenever they were reluctant or mutinying is something he definitely learned at home from his mom.

[freecandyman]

The girls go sledding: part 2

... and that’s enough of that, until they find a different, less steep hill. Neither Con nor Mary-Ann are as good at sledding as they thought they were