#Ancient Italy

[skf-fineart]

Memento Mori mosaic from Pompei, circa 1st century AD

[jeannepompadour]

Lucanian, ancient civilization in Southern Italy, tomb frescoes, 4th c. BC

[bronzeageecho]

red-figure fish plate | c. 350 - 325 BCE | poseidonia/paestum, magna grecia (modern day italy)

in the j. paul getty museum collection

[uncleclaudius]

The Goddess of Victory driving a two-horse chariot (so-called biga), a tomb fresco from Paestum, Lucania.

[maxxi-the-procrastinator]

The Grand Tour

Interactive fiction novel.

Demo: First chapter to be released soon.

You play as the main character, Avery Sinclair, a young historian who has been invited to travel across the continent to join their younger brother; John Sinclair, on his coming of age grand tour. Avery jumps on the opportunity to excavate and uncover the hidden history behind the bronze age collapse. Thrusting their journey into a pleasing combination of business and pleasure.

On the tour the Sinclair siblings are accompanied and chaperoned by the bear-leader; Thomas Clark, his fiancee; Willow Button and Avery’s best friend; Landon Harrow. On their travels, Avery runs into a couple familiar faces from their college days, reigniting rivalries that they believed were left to the past.

Will Avery be able to uncover the hidden history lost to time, or will they become distracted as unexpected romance blossoms during their tour? Can Avery juggle this tantalising mix of business and pleasure? Or will hearts be broken across the continent in their wake?

Romantic tropes of each route; Landon Harrow ~ Friends to Lovers. Thomas Clark ~ Friends to strangers to lovers. Willow Button ~ Forbidden romance. Pierre Moreau ~ Rivals to lovers. Love triangle ~ Landon and Pierre.

[ancientstuff]

The work of reading those scrolls from Herculaneum and Pompeii goes on with some fantastic results.

[charlenefrl]

Offerings from sanctuaries in Central Italia, now in the Louvre.

While the oldest offerings date from the 6th century BCE and were made of bronze, starting witht he 4th century, offerings started to be made from terracotta. By offering pictures of body parts, people hoped for relief or healing. Terracotta was much cheaper and could be somewhat mass produced by crafters living close to those sanctuaries.

When I showed this to my young students, they were super surprised and told me ancient people were weird. Ancient people? Have a look at this pictures from nowadays Naples:

These are ex votos from the church of the Gesù Nuovo. A catholic saint is buried there, a doctor who is credited with miraculous healing. Just like the ancient terracota offerings, they show various parts of the body, depending on what the believers hope to heal with their prayers.

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Stemmed plate, 625BC-600BC, Italy.

[curiouscatalog]

Ancient animals doing animal things.

From: Les antiquités d'Herculanum : avec leurs explications en Franc̦ois. P. Sylvain M. Paris, Chez David, 1780.

DG70.H5 M2 1780

[hehehehehheheheydye]

Here's some historical reproduction of the paleoveneti made by locals in my city for some events

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[integratedheart]

Haruspex (pl. Haruspices)

Haruspices were Etruscan diviners who used the entrails of sacrificial animals to determine the will of the Gods. Very often they would examine the liver and gallbladder of a sheep. This life size bronze model is subdivided into sections and inscribed with the names of individual Etruscan deities. Last edit: 10/24/24 10:53am MT | Source 1 | Source 2 | Source 3 |

[ancientprettythings]

Rome and the area around Pompeii from The Peutinger Map - an itenerarium (road map) drawn circa 1200.

Though late, it preserves a picture of the landscape from Late Antiquity.

Bibliography for further information.

[weeby-monster-the-bastard]

Nisus/Niso and Euryalos are my roman empire <3

[bronzeageecho]

pendant, woman carrying a child | c. 600 - 550 BCE | italy, etruscan or italic culture

in the j. paul getty museum collection

[uncleclaudius]

Bronze Etruscan mirror. Mirrors such as this were given to women as wedding gifts. The engraving shows a young woman and a man playing a board game. The inscription next to the woman says: "I think I am going to win."

[universalambients]

Sicily, 1819