#Thermas

[the-evil-clergyman]

A Favorite Custom by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1909)

[intotheelliwoods]

le mon

[howamidrivinginlimbo]

The Stabian Baths in the ancient city of Pompeii

The thermae were constructed around 125 BC. Hundred years later, the baths were connected to Pompeii's aquaduct. They were damaged in the earthquake of 62 AD.

[zushwood]

[gayzing-away]

Hiroshi Abe in Thermae Romae II (2014)

[kittynomore]

Got any grapes?

also better to share with a friend <33

[what-is-theobserver]

Relaxed and divine.

I started drawing this before there were hints that he had silver hair, so there are two versions.

[ineffable-writer]

I was not expecting to find this isekai about a Roman man popping up in Japanese baths to be so fucking charming or weirdly historically accurate BUT IT IS

[jiggleb0ners]

POV u lost the bet

Better fork over those tickets asap or you're gonna get to see what he can do to a human skull ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿

[tennant]

THERMAE ROMAE II / テルマエ・ロマエＩＩ(2014) dir. Hideki Takeuchi

[nercali]

Commission for @cothillion <3

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

Original title: Terumae Romae | テルマエ・ロマエ.

[intotheelliwoods]

WHO SENT ME NUKES IN MY DRAW BOX-

OH MY GOSH. I peek in there and get hit with all these goodies????

[narmothewraith]

You're just in denial Lucius /jk

[snappingthewalls]

[volumina-vetustiora]

I'd be curious to hear your opinions on the Latin in Thermae Romae Novae, the Netflix adaptation of the manga Thermae Romae. It's all pretty simple and my initial impression was "Oh. Way better than I expected," but I have yet to get other classicists' eyes on it.

I watched the first episode, where the only bit of Latin was the translation of the title All Baths Lead To Rome as omnes thermae Romam ducunt, which made me happy since they correctly used the accusative without ad for "to Rome"

however after looking up some scenes of spoken Latin, I think they probably lucked out with that title as omnes viae Romam ducunt is already a phrase

the spoken Latin was clearly being delivered by someone who didn't know what it meant (though the Japanese voice actor was unsurprisingly able to preserve the correct vowel length)

from what I could make out, the grammar is not particularly good, but neither has it been completely ignored: they go for an accusative and infinitive but don't get the accusative right, they use the ablative with cum where it should be an ablative absolute, they use a gerundive but forget to put it in the right case

in that sense it probably is better than I expected - I can't say for sure but it seems like there was at least one person on the project who wanted the Latin to be correct, but they probably didn't know enough or have anyone to check their work

I don't really know enough about day-to-day life in ancient Rome to properly judge, but the scenes set in Rome seemed to have a lot of attention to detail which was nice

thanks for reminding me of this show! :)