Brand New Episode - Shirts Off for Virtus!
We continue to follow the adventures of that most amazing of Romans: Marcus Furius Camillus! This is one of his real shining moments of virtus. Join us for his adventures with a Faliscan school teacher 
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https://partialhistorians.com/2025/06/12/episode-162-shirts-off-for-virtus/
The Praetorian Guard
It’s #ReliefWednesday and we’re enamoured by the Praetorians Relief, which comes from the Arch of Claudius dated to c. 51–52 CE. It depicts three soldiers in high relief in the foreground with two others in the background. The soldiers are accompanied by a standard bearer who holds an aquila standard. In dramatic fashion, the eagle grasps a thunderbolt in its talons.
The soldiers have been identified as Praetorians due to the elevated style of their helmets, dress and oval shields.
It can be seen today in the Louvre-Lens. Photo credit to Christophe Jacquand via Wikimedia Commons.
A late #BumDayMonday to start the work week after Whit Monday.
This painting by Jacque-Louis David, depicts Romulus' bum in the "Intervention of the Sabine Women". The Sabines, neighbours of early Rome, attack the Romans to take back the women they abducted. The women intervene, pleading the warriors on both sides to stop the bloodshed. It was painted 1796-1799 as a plea for the people to reunite after the bloodshed of the French Revolution.
Researchers Used A 1,500-Year-Old Map To Find A Lost City - Excavators Determined Tharais Was A Religious Hub Of The Byzantine Empire
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https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a64978262/tharais-byzantine-lost-city/ <-- shared technical article
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https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/4243913 <-- shared paper
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“ • Researchers recently found one of the many lost Holy Land cities in Jordan.
• The team used maps and field surveys to identify the site.
• Experts believe the lost city Tharais wasn’t just an agricultural village—it may have also been a spiritual hub…”
#map #mapping #ancientmap #ancienthistory #Tharais #HolyLand #Jordan #surveys #MadabaMosaicMap #geography #AncientRome #RomanEmpire #city #archaeology #Byzantine #urban #settlement #Karak #excavation #MiddleEast #desert
https://www.europesays.com/2149263/ Archaeologists in France Discover Giant Roman Gallic Villa Hiding in Plain Sight #AncientRome #archaeology #france #Gaul
The newly opened piazza in front of the #ancient #roman mausoleum of the emperor Augustus. #rome #archaeology #ancienthistory #romanhistory #ancientrome
It’s theatre time this #MosaicMonday with a troupe offering a comedic performance (the smiling masks are the giveaway!). The play itself we’re not sure about but the tambourine, small cymbals, and the double flute share a connection with the goddess Cybele.
The mosaic was found in the so-called Villa of Cicero near Pompeii and is now held in the MAN Napoli.
Ahhh good old #ProgrammingFalsehoods! Some bastard just made me remember the Roman calendar, and the falsehood "the day of the month always advances contiguously from N to either N+1 or 1, with no discontinuities."
A belated #FrescoFriday with this beautiful golden hued fragment that depicts Urania, the muse of astronomy. This gorgeous fragment comes from the House of Julia Felix in Pompeii and is now held in Louvre Museum, Paris.
It’s #PhallusThursday
This bronze phallic amulet is bound to have brought it’s owner great fortune! We hope the very glimpse of it also brings Fortune’s favour your way!
Varro Varius by D.J. Butterfield, 2020
Rome produced no man more erudite, eclectic, and energetic than Marcus Terentius Varro (116-24 BC). Over a long and busy life, set against the backdrop of near-constant social and political upheaval, Varro studied and codified almost every conceivable topic for intellectual enquiry.
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#biography
#AncientRome
#polymath
#MarcusVarro
#ancient #roman sculptural group of the Niobids, killed by the gods Artemis and Apollo, discovered near Ciampino just outside #rome in 2011. #archaeology #ancienthistory #romanhistory #ancientrome #ancientart
This #ReliefWednesday we honour the fallen murmillo gladiator: Quintus Sossius Albius. This funerary stele commemorates his life with the dedication made by the freedwoman Sossia Iusta. Whether Albius died on the job is not clear…
This week's #MythologyMonday theme is #sexwork! Acca Larentia was a mythical woman in Roman mythology. She was a beautiful prostitute (scortum) of roughly the same age as Romulus and Remus. She was awarded to Hercules as a prize in a game of dice by the guardian of his temple, and locked in it with his other prize, a feast. She left the fortune she amassed through prostitution to the Roman people. Truly a "hooker with a heart of gold". And a fortune of gold, too!
A small, marble clad, #ancient toilet in the #roman villa of the Quintilii on the via Appia, #rome. #archaeology #ancientrome #romanhistory #ancienthistory
The Gladiator Mosaic
The stunning detail of the Gladiator Mosaic uncovered in 1834 on the Via Casilina outside Rome are now held in the Villa Borghese.
The ABCD Family Tree
Posted on 11/12/2018 by Ryan Starkey https://starkeycomics.com/2018/12/11/the-abcd-family-tree/
It’s #FrescoFriday and today we honour Agriculture in all her divine manifestations. This figure with her basket of first fruits and the hints of a plough is fairly strutting into the weekend!
The series of #ancient rooms, the so-called grottoni, behind the Pantheon. #rome #archaeology #ancienthistory #romanhistory #ancientrome
Brand New Episode - Fulvia with Dr Jane Draycott
Learn about one of the most fascinating women of the late Republic! Fulvia was the wife of Mark Antony *before* he became the celebrity of Egypt. Did she have blood on her hands as the republic spiralled? We’re here to find out!
#AncientRome #Podcast #History
https://partialhistorians.com/2025/05/29/special-episode-fulvia-with-dr-jane-draycott/
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