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2/2 new stickers for the summer! This time it’s Fulvia, wife of Mark Antony and political mastermind in her own right. While her most iconic thing is of course stabbing Cicero’s decapitated head with a hairpin, I was impressed by all that she had achieved in honor of her first husband Clodius and the fact that both she and Antony continued to push for his policies which made them popular among the plebs. Gotta love a woman of the people!

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being very strong and not blocking the iliad and odyssey tags but we are getting dangerously close to miku binder odysseus territory

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those tags @marcusagrippa left on the ancient greece mullet post have gripped me

what if clodius had a mullet..... not actually even sure if this is what a mullet looks like my research was inconclusive. alas.

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It's a lovely day in Rome, and you are a horrible politician.

An amazing, massive set of text generators based on classic video games just dropped!

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how many people on this webbed site have i personally convinced to read the pharsalia actually. like we did book club. it must be a non-zero number

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*school

group of votive fish, roman, 2nd c. AD. Getty museum.

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thinking about the time this summer when elon musk recommended everyone read the iliad (specifically the penguin classics edition as an audiobook at 1.25x speed) and really can't stop laughing about it because 1. there are few people on this earth who could miss the point of the iliad quite as hard as this guy 2. the edition he linked to is a shitass translation from 1946 3. the book he linked was actually an audiobook of the odyssey

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Stunning mosaic from the floor of the triclinium (dining room) of Hadrian's Villa, residence of Emperor Hadrian outside Rome

Altes Museum, Berlin

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People will be like I love Greek mythology but I hate everything that involves incest, infidelity, violence, slavery, misogyny, undeserved suffering, questionable relationships, ethically dubious heroes and gods,and morality that is foreign to me.

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Just about everything, Jeff Brouws

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Cerberus...?

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feeling called out today

credit: _ADWills

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augustus and marcus agrippa

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do you guys know about lio gangeri's statue of fulvia with the head of cicero.

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Aeneas’ perpetual and noticeable absence of active participation in what are arguably his most important relationships (Creusa, Ascanius, Dido, Pallas, Lavinia). The conspicuous places where he goes to speak to one or more of these people and a sign of divinity cuts him off. I am going to gnaw my leg off.

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01/11/19