hannah

last universal common ancestor

[toskarinfr]

must feel good as fuck to curse a prince for being rude to you while you were larping as an old woman for no reason

[ilions-end]

okay i've come to appreciate seneca for his banger lines but wow already on the FIRST PAGE of his medea???

MEDEA: Bring death on this new wife, death on the father-in-law and the whole royal stock. For the bridegroom I have a worse prayer in store: may he live. May he wander through unknown cities in want, in exile, hated and homeless may he seek out other men's doors, by this time a notorious guest; may he long for me as his wife and—I can make no worse prayer—for children resembling their father and resembling their mother. My revenge is born, already born: I have given birth.

[memories-of-ancients]

Gold earring, Byzantine, 6th-7th century AD

from The MET

[aprilwitching-deactivated201808]

[pipistrellus]

Swing state gothic

[sextuspompey]

junia silana and agrippina the younger. agrippina likes to bite, silana likes to indulge her, everyone gets what they want... for now.

(drawn a good while ago for @garland-on-thy-brow's birthday because those are our girls who totally never conspired 💓🗡️)

tacitus, annals 13.19

[thethirdromana]

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

[the-punforgiven]

[henstomper]

"ooouuugh the masculine urge to die poignantly on a medieval battlefield" You Are Getting Cholera On The March And Shitting Yourself To Death

[mamercus]

they made me princeps senatus becvse i have gravel for breakfast every morning like gravel the rock and im usually not done chewing it until early evening so whenever i speak theres like a 5% chance a tiny sharp shard of gravel will be propelled out of my mouth. i speak fairly often as princeps senatus and the other senators are hoping i’ll accidentally spit out a piece of gravel will hit pompey in the eye, killing him instantly

[anjomecanico]

Start commenting "not all men" in posts saying something positive about men

[yuhanzzzz]

[catilinas]

girl help we took a weird turn at ostia antica and CANT FIND A WAY OUT

[catilinas]

LET ME OUTTTTTT

[malachia-il-bibliotecario]

ever wondered why epigraphs have huge chunks missing off them? that's right. I bited them all

[bewbin]

EVERYOBODY GET DOWN HES TAKING A CREATIVE LIBERTY

[hortensius-deactivated20240909]

[bippus]

Top ten reasons to kill yourself ranked by virtue

[treasuresfromthearchives]

Julius Caesar

Andrea di Pietro di Marco Ferrucci Italian

ca. 1512–14

"Ferrucci’s pleasing Julius Caesar exemplifies the delicately ornate, a l’antica style of Florentine sculpture fashionable in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. While the face is strikingly naturalistic and portrait-like, the profuse amount of surface detail seems to disperse rather than unify form and to reduce the scale of the sculpture rather than create a sense of monumentality. The innovations of Michelangelo’s Brutus emerge when it is compared to Ferrucci’s bust. Ten years older than Michelangelo, Ferrucci was described by Vasari as one of those marvelous "sculptors who without knowing at all how to draw on paper nevertheless brings their works to a fine and praiseworthy finish with their chisels." He became head of the workforce at San Lorenzo in 1524, where his expertise in carving marble proved valuable to Michelangelo."