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[liviadrvsillas-blog]

( @ptolemaioi liked for a starter ! ) 

LIVIA LEANS DOWN, EYES TRAINED UPON THE CHILD OF CLEOPATRA. She had heard, only a rumor of course, that the queen had perhaps asked for a last minute appeal from the empress consort. However unable to grant it, she remembers it in her memory as she looks into big, uncertain eyes. 

❝ I should not lie to you. I know you are scared. You ought to be; what you have been through is no easy task. ❞  The blonde smiles, her gaze turning toward the figure of her husband looming in the corner before she shakes her head, turning her attention back to the figure in front of her. ❝ But I urge you to remember, no matter what, that your mother was a QUEEN and your father WELL-LIKED. I shall make sure no harm comes to you. ❞ The sweet words about Octavian’s enemies are rather bitter, but Livia knows that they’re true ___ she cannot fight fire with fire; she refuses to do so in her own home. ❝ I promise. ❞

[amunct-blog]

     (  𓆗 )   —— ❝  Surely this is no place for children to r o a m. How did you get here little one ? ❞

                   ( @ptolemaioi​ ♥ for a starter ! ! ! )

[martiialis-blog]

2, 4, 6, 10!

2. who is your favourite Roman emperor?

to learn about? nero. as a person? probably claudius

4. tell me about the classical ladies you love the most

because of the area i focus on (roman cultural history as opposed to big man history), the woman i think is GREAT is the woman from this famous fresco in pompeii

because she is educated (stylus and tablet) and standing in front of her husband- indicating that SHE is the one with the power and influence in this family. NOT her husband. no one knows her name but her husband’s name is paquius proculo. she’s just an regular roman lady, showing she is educated and powerful.

6. who is your favourite character from the Iliad or Odyssey?

odysseus, because i’m original. odysseus was originally one of my LEAST favorite characters until i reread the odyssey and i realized that he wasn’t a “bad” guy because he wasn’t supposed to be a “good” man. he’s meant to be great and that’s what he is. he’s clever, witty, the potential to be an “anti-hero” in the eyes of modern society. he’s complex and that’s something i value and need in characters.

10. recommend a piece of fiction about the classical world

UH I DON’t really read fiction, i mostly read non-fiction so!! i’ll suggest HBO Rome because :) that’s all i know bye

[sapienticrem-blog]

❝ sadness, who me? sad? ❞

bare sentence | a c c e p t i n g

A PECULIAR GLEAM, a mistaken one perhaps, yet one that he recognizes : he once knew this nostalgia that comes like waves, dying on the shore of you heart. perhaps he is too BOLD of him to assume this, and perhaps he should have remained silent, for this kind of burden are better endured when they are unheard of - yet he cannot restrain himself from wanting to share the weight of such disquietudes. —— Pardon me if my assumptions are wrong. I mean only to help. “

[cerynitiis]

helios for the heart meme !!!

visual attractiveness  :  ♥♥♥♥♥friendship level          :  ♥♥♥♥♥ sexual desire             :  ♥♥♥♥♥ romantic intent           :  ♥♥♥♥♥

consensus:     COME ON HE’S HOT AND SWEET                                      (( & meme  ))

[martiialis-blog]

‘ gods are stubborn. so am i. ’

he swirls his dark wine in his glass slowly.the child of his own; who defected, who ran away to egypt.the child of the woman who seduced two of his greatest men.

     “ you’re not stubborn like a god.       you’re stubborn like a fifteen year old girl. “

he won’t give her the pleasure of her comparison.he knows the gods, he thinks. he’s met mars and he knows the will of jupiter and juno.she does not compare.