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catullus 51 // the pro caelio

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2025's ides of march illustration!

I've been doing one a year since the 2022 presidential election*, so. you know! keeping up with the thematic tradition. sometimes politicians compare themselves to caesar crossing the rubicon and you just gotta. process that. do an annual re read of a bunch of different literature that use the ides as their stage. go through commentary on dante's divine comedy. watch a production of julius caesar. for unrelated reasons, ofc.

(*other countries besides america have elections)

it's also funny how people will debate whether or not the optimates/conspirators/whatever were ungrateful assholes in my inbox whenever I post one of these, like the ides of march hasn't been a well established narrative that people have been using to explore other stuff for centuries. take it to an academic conference! we have empire and autocracy and absolutely batshit press conferences to discuss!!

and as always, some reading material! for fun and whimsy. for more on brutus as an established allegorical figure:

The Brutus Revival: Parricide and Tyrannicide During The Renaissance, Mafredi Piccolomini

and on roman conspiracies narratives

Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History, V.E. Pagan

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i’ve barely had any time to draw bc degree stuff but here’s some messy curio sketches plus a little catilina

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Emperor Hadrian and Antinous study

idk who to do next

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mutual 1: i miss cicero we need to bring him back and make him Worse

mutual 2: (post about cato the younger being barefoot and pregnant)

mutual 3: need marcus agrippa bouncing and moaning on itttt!!!!

mutual 4: do you think sulla and gaius marius ever explored each others bodies

mutual 5: caelius wouldve done numbers on here

gaius marius: I was consul 7 times

mutual 6: i need to keep a roman senator locked in my basement

mutual 7: (poll) who won the senatorial wet tunic contest in 50 bce 🤔

mutual 8: we NEED (roman guy not even god knows about) and (other roman guy not even god knows about) yaoi!!!

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cicero would say this as an attack on clodius tbh

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TEXAS HOLD 'EM

But in the struggle near Rome, which was the last and greatest of all, while Sulla was defeated and his army repulsed and shattered, Crassus was victorious with the right wing,​ pursued the enemy till nightfall, and then sent to Sulla informing him of his success and asking supper for his soldiers.

Plutarch, Crassus

A Year of One's Own: Dating the Praetorship of Marcus Crassus, M. Stone

so sometimes public displays of praise are also rituals of humiliation. like, crassus was so funny for that, but oh boy. watch out!

also! for an additional layer of rome & her civil war related thoughts, that statue crop in the second panel is Carpeaux's Ugolino and His Sons. the mouth of rome which devours etc etc.

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gilgamesh is the bigger man than me because if a snake ate my flower that grants immortality that i wanted to use for myself i wouldn't touchingly come to peace with my own mortality and the mortal legacy i leave behind. i would be like if there was a flower that could make me immortal maybe there are other ways

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HMS Endeavour drying out the sails after heavy rain

Source

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ask not for whom vienna waits

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i choose to believe this is a symbol

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the terror is so much funnier if you remember that they’re all literally just coworkers……. like yes ofc there’s the blowjob brotherhood of the royal navy and it’s not a normal job but like.. it IS a job

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A lot of aubreyad fanboys on the other social media platforms are Diana haters who will be like “I hate that she made him do all that!” And in response to that it’s fun to do a bit on here called “it rules that she made him do all that #YesGirl” but the reality is that no one made him do all that and in fact he was frequently doing things that nobody asked him to do

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Gym bro Plato. Sad but true.

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still laughing my ass off to this

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I bet it feels good as fuuuuck to slightly draw your sword with all the other knights in anger when a treacherous knave shows their face in the court

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Cave canes!