#romans

[shranstan]

Reading any historical fiction and non-fiction set in I century B.C.E. and Cicero my friend Cicero is always there <3 #mycicero

[thesilicontribesman]

Roman Cockerel Mosaic Fragment, Rome, Italy, 100 to 1 BCE, Burrell Collection, Glasgow, Scotland

[solarg0blin]

Ego, Miettam leviter pedis latere tangens: Mietta, movere, ne in te incurram

Mietta, oculis magnis: tu Miettae calcem IMPINGIS? illius corpori sicut folli calcem impingis?! eheu! eheu! In carcerem Mater conjiciatur! In carcerem in Mille Annos conjiciatur!!!!

Millions of thanks to @alda-rana for a much, much better translation

[illustratus]

A Coign of Vantage by Lawrence Alma-Tadema

[kabewski]

[cuties-in-codices]

foolishness in rome: pagans dancing and worshipping idols

miniatures from a copy of la cité de dieu, raoul de presles' 14th c. french translation of augustine's de civitate dei contra paganos (on the city of god against the pagans, 5th c. AD). this copy was produced in paris and illuminated by the maïtre françois, c. 1475-80

source: The Hague, RMMW, 10 A 11, ff. 35v, 36v, 45r, and 54v

[vintagegeekculture]

In the colossal, cathedral sized water tank beneath the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, several heads of Medusa have been used as pillar bases for the past 1.500 years. It is not entirely known where the heads came from, but they were believed to be taken from some other Roman ruin. The heads are upside down or sideways to inhibit the power of the Gorgon Medusa's gaze.

The water tank's existence was forgotten for hundreds of years, despite being beneath the Hagia Sophia. When it was rediscovered, explorers found fish inside of it.