#Ancient Italy

[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."

[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.

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Stemmed plate, 625BC-600BC, Italy.

[pink-lemonade-rose]

[In Lokroi, their] Persephone served many of the functions in relation to female maturation, marriage, and childbirth that Artemis and Hera fulfilled for the mainland Greeks. Her union with Hades was a divine exemplar of marriage and it was she who received the prewedding sacrifices known as proteleia. She was also the protector of young children. But in the background was always the knowledge of Persephone’s identity as the Queen of the Dead, and her role in the ultimate fate of the soul as set forth in “Orphic” eschatology. Thus the widespread Greek analogy between marriage and death finds at Lokroi its most complex and highly developed manifestation. The ideology of marriage had its own peculiarities at Lokroi, where social status and ritual privilege seem, uniquely in the Greek world, to have been transferred in matrilineal fashion. The wife, particularly in the role of bride, seems to have held a higher status than in many other Greek cities. Furthermore, the idealized institution of marriage had an eschatological significance: just as marriage was a symbolic death, death was a symbolic marriage and the blessed afterlife state was assimilated to that of marital bliss.

Jennifer Larson, Ancient Greek Cults: A Guide

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Thomas Couture (French, 1815 - 1879) Romans of decadence, Details, 1847

[desimonewayland]

Gold earrings in the form of dolphins, 2nd to 3rd Century B.C.

Found in Taranto, Italy - one of the Western Greek colonies.

Collection of British Museum / via: Archeaologyart

[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

[ancientprettythings]

Terracotta figure of two women playing astragaloi (knucklebones). 

There was a version of the game, called the Aphrodite throw, which was said to predict the odds of the thrower getting married. It’s suggested that these were placed in the graves of unmarried women in the hopes they would find love in the afterlife.

Love that the paint can still be seen on this, too :)

Made in Capua, c. 330-300 BCE.

[weeby-monster-the-bastard]

Nisus/Niso and Euryalos are my roman empire <3

[uncleclaudius]

The terracotta statue of winged horses discovered in 1938 in Tarquinia, one of the leading cities in ancient Etruria. The horses were in fragments and it took decades to reconstruct the whole statue.

[universalambients]

Sicily, 1819

[ancientstuff]

That's kind of a strange tomb. And it's big. How on earth did they miss it for so long?

[deathlessathanasia]

Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Italy - Anna’s Archive

[pink-lemonade-rose]

Orestes murdering Klytaimnestra, with one of the Erinyes arriving to avenge her. Red-figure amphora, Paestum (Magna Graecia), c. 350-320 BCE.

[majormisunderstanding]

Detail of Addaura Cave Art, Monte Pellegrino, Italy. Dated to approximately 11,000 BC.