The arch of Titus stands on the Via Sacra which leads from the Colosseum into the Roman Forum. It marked Titus' campaign in Judea which led to the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple. Titus' deified image is depicted lifted up to the heavens on the back of an eagle.
The arch of Titus stands on the Via Sacra which leads from the Colosseum into the Roman Forum. It marked Titus' campaign in Judea which led to the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple. Titus' deified image is depicted lifted up to the heavens on the back of an eagle.
"Not ye had the wakeful dawn put all the stars to flight from heaven, and Luna (the Moon) was beholding the approach of day with fading horn."
Statius, Thebaid 12.1
🏛️ The goddess #Luna in her biga, relief on the Arch of Constantinus, tondo on short west side, 312—315 CE, #Rome
Hidden gold earring reveals forgotten episode of Carthage-Rome war
“The jewelry piece was discovered inside a ruined building in the middle of the Pyrenees. The building is believed to have been part of a devastating fire that burned the settlement to the ground.
The destruction was dated around the end of the third century BCE, the moment where the Pyrenees were involved in the Second Punic War and the passage of Hannibal’s troops,”
In the year 284 This Tetradrachm was issued under Roman Emperor Numerian. I am constantly amazed that a coin minted nearly 2,000 years ago can be dated to the year! For that, and much more on this period and coin, including the wisdom of @phistorians please check out: https://coinofnote.com/284-rome-numerian-tetradrachm/
If that hasn't tempted you already, then maybe the threat of my poetry will?
Serious #Downfall vibes in the series finale of #Rome. I’m not an educated classicist and I know they had to change things for the show and its collapsing budget by this point, but I’m a bit skeptical that the real story was like this.
No wonder people see this show as a precursor to Game of Thrones - I may get round to watching that. I’ll have to rewatch season 1 later.
I also just bought Ten Caesars and will read it soon.
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"To Sea-set Kypros the moist breath of Zephryos (the West Wind) wafted her [#Aphrodite] over the waves of the loud-moaning sea in soft foam, and there the gold-filleted #Horai (Seasons) welcomed her joyously. They clothed her with heavenly garments."
Homeric Hymn 6
🏛 The birth of Aphrodite, marble relief, 460-450 BCE, Palazzo Altemps, #Rome
"As we can discern from Plutarch and Appian, beyond the socio-economic impacts, the ancient historians equated the displacement of the family-run smallholdings with the slave-dependent Latifundia with a concurrent moral decline that degraded the Roman Republic."
Since Sunday is a day of rest and there is no #AtoZChallenge letter for today, let's have a #bonus "R" coin. Again, we are in Ancient #Rome. Actually, more like #Hispania, and a very rough denarius issued by the first Roman Emperor, Augustus. Or is it? Once again, so much history in such a small piece of metal! Find out more here:
For today's "R" coin for the #AtoZChallenge, let's travel to ancient Rome. I picked a piece I find fascinating - not the highest grade piece in my collection, but there is so much history and information in this coin I wanted to share it: https://coinofnote.com/360-a-d-rome-ae-3-fel-temp-reparatio/
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
When the Sabines attacked #Rome, #Venus noticed that #Juno had unlocked one of the gates. Unable to undo the Queen's sabotage, she asked the Ausoniae for help. Using yellow sulphur, the crafty nymphs brought the water of their spring to a boil and successfully blocked the gate.
#February was the month of purification, for ancient #Romans.
One of the old rituals is #Lupercalia: young men (luperci) were initiated, and they hit the ground with goat-skin stripes in order to chase away evil spirits.
Also, they "hit" women because the festivity was linked with #Juno, goddess of childbirth.
Raphael's Loggia in the Apostolic Palace 🏛️ Vatican. The decorations epitomize the spirit of the Italian Renaissance in its synthesis of Christian & classical themes.
🎥 Beloved by popes and princes, leader of an extensive workshop, famous architect, caretaker of Roman antiquities, close friend of many of the leading literary & cultural figures of the day and much more besides, RAPHAEL: A PORTRAIT tells his story.
Visitors to Rome's new Forma Urbis Museum on the Caelian Hill can walk across a glass floor with fragments of a massive marble map of Rome engraved in the early 3rd century under Emperor Septimius Severus.