#augustus x agrippa

[amethystmercury]

Augustus and Agrippa = The jock nerd duo self actualization

[theromaboo]

So like I had to paint a rock for a rock garden. And obviously I painted Augustus and Agrippa being best buds(tm) but I just realised they look EXACTLY like Will and Nico and I don't want people to think I'm a solangelo shipper.

[silly-al13n]

My brain: I beg u finish ALCIBIADES

Me: No

My brain: BUT WE LITERALLY JUST SAW HIM IN THE MUSEUM A FEW HOURS AGO

Me: Yes, but AGRIPPA

To be honest, I saw so many AMAZING things, but unfortunately I didn't have enough time to sit and sketch everything I like (especially beautiful amphorae), so all I had

a) A LOT OF PHOTOS

b) small sketches on my old phone after the visit

p.s. yep, I've already noticed that i disabled a layer with his arm i know

[theromaboo]

- Augustus probably

agrippa agrippa agrippa

Agreed.

I'd let this guy crack an egg in my ass and fuck me til it scrambles. Full homo.

[zoesiapie]

First & Last lines

Rules: Post the first and last lines of the last 10 fics you posted.

thanks @mari--lace for the tag!

1. Rome was not built in a day First: Rome was not built in a day. Last: “I love you too.” 

2. Your heart is a city First: "Here.” Agrippa's hand is steady on Octavian's chest, dividing the fingers from the beating heart are a few layers of skin, a cage of bones.  Last: “Here I have you, Marcus.” 

3. The Orion Belt First: Fred is lying next to George, he has come to steal space in the twin's bed; they were much more comfortable as children, now that they're almost eighteen they have to squeeze so that one doesn't fall ruinously to the ground. Last: "Come closer." George interrupts him, then swallows softly. Jordan's hand adjusts behind his neck, "Closer."

4. Under the starlight First: Legolas' hand is young, soft. Last: “Amrâlimê.”

5. your life is here, so is mine First: “You have blood here.” Thanatos' wet thumb wipes a spot on his bare shoulder, the Death God's sigh tickles his skin. Last: And then a kiss.

6. Inevitably, above the clouds First: In-evitable.  Last: Fred smiles mischievously, reaching down to brush her lips. “By dint of complimenting me, I'm going up to the moon.” Then he kisses her. “Will you come?”

7. And they lived happily (and powerful) ever after First: Once upon a time, in a land far far away, there was a tiny kingdom, peaceful and magical. And in the land far far away, in that tiny kingdom, there was a palace so large… Last: (Also Mei Mei, whom Satoru paid handsomely so that she would go as far away as possible).

8. breaking load First: In physics, the breaking load or breaking strength is the limit, in terms of external force or stress, beyond which a material is permanently unserviceable from the viewpoint of durability. Beyond which, simply put, the material breaks. And it is impossible that it will not break if the applied force is given by an infinite mass. Last: There is no breaking load, there is nothing that can break this thing.

9. All this beauty and it's just for me First: Satoru takes a long breath, when he releases it, a white cloud makes its way into the night. He watches it dissolve, the silhouette of the Tokyo Institute of Occult Arts appears behind it.  Last: No one has ever seen Satoru like this. Suguru smiles, raven hair tickling the skin of his forearm. "...And it's just for me."

10. Overdramatic and true (to my lover) First: The practice field is covered with snow, the sky is a ghostly white - looking out the window it is hard to distinguish when one begins and the other ends. Mei Mei tries, clenching her eyelids and trying to imagine where the running track has gone and where the corner of grass she has fallen on just five times in her student years is hiding instead. Someone's shoes on the field make a crunching noise against the floor, she distracts herself and diverts her gaze inward. " What a pain in the ass."  Last: "As if I haven't just discarded yours, Suguru."

Tagging: @saint-oleander, @gwennevlis

[pantheonsofgaynessanddespair]

octavian: hey wanna be my bodyguard? agrippa: will i get paid? octavian: ummm... you'll be paid with the most kinkiest, most mind-breaking sex ever. agrippa: oh sweet!! atia at the back: kids these days.

[nagapiezz]

Agrippa x Augustus (octavian)

[theromaboo]

HAHA you can NEVER escape from us. Roman history fans of Tumblr, attack!!

here i am, on my old laptop, reading historical rpf. i started as a joke and now i'm worried that i will start unironically shipping augustus/agrippa

[lyranova]

Masterlist:

Rill x Charmy

En Ringard

Wizard Kings

Fue, Nozel, Yami, and Yuno Battle

Kaiser

Secre x Lumiere

Magna x Luck

Jack the Ripper

Nacht x Ichika

Yuno x Mimosa

Yuno x Noelle

Klaus Lunettes

Klaus x Mimosa

Magna x Rebecca

Dorothy Unsworth

Lolopechka

Henry Legolant

Zera [OC] gets along with best

Yosuga Musyogatake

Finral x Vanessa Finral x Finesse x Langris and House Vaude

King Augustus Kira Clover XIII

Father Orsi

Charlotte and Luck Half-Sibling Theory

Magna Swing

Ryuzen 7 and the BBs

Rhya

Acier Silva

Gordon Agrippa

Mars x Fana

Fanzelle x Dominante

[i-am-not-like-you-ups]

Octavian: wait... did you flirt with me? 

Agrippa: have been for the past few months but thanks for noticing

[pinkcupboardwitch]

Two Bros Platonically Conquering Rome: listen here

“Agrippa doesn’t want your power. He wants your love.”

-

Tracklist and selected lyrics with historical annotations below:

Holding Out for a Hero by Bonnie Tyler (Philippi and Actium)

I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night

He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast

And he's gotta be fresh from the fight

-

Aventine by Agnes Obel

One step ahead, a thousand miles

A trail ablaze to the Aventine

-

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) by Eurythmics

Sweet dreams are made of this

Who am I to disagree?

-

No Surrender by Bruce Springsteen

We made a promise we swore we'd always remember

No retreat, baby, no surrender

Like soldiers in the winter's night with a vow to defend

-

Blood Brothers by Luke Bryan

I got a scar on my cheek from a bar room brawl

Wasn't meant for me but I took the fall

It's a cowboy code, it's an unwrote law

When you mess with one you gotta take us all

-

I’m Your Man by Leonard Cohen

If you want a father for your child 

Or only want to walk with me a while 

Across the sand 

I'm your man 

-

Certain Things by James Arthur

And there's certain things that I adore

And there's certain things that I ignore

But I'm certain that I'm yours

-

Skulls by Bastille

Hold me in your arms, hold me in your arms

I'll be buried here with you

And I'll hold in these hands all that remains

-

King and Lionheart by Of Monsters and Men

You’re my king and I’m your lionheart.

-

The Lightning Strike by Snow Patrol

Be the lightning in me

That strikes relentless

-

Sunlight by Hozier

Know that I would gladly be

The Icarus to your certainty

Oh my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight

Strap the wing to me

-

Brother by Kodaline

And if we hit on troubled water

I'll be the one to keep you warm and safe

And we'll be carrying each other

Until we say goodbye on our dying day

-

I Wanna Be Yours by Arctic Monkeys

You call the shots babe

I just wanna be yours

-

Follow You by Bring Me The Horizon

You got me on my knees, 

I'm your one-man cult

-

Always Gold by Radical Face

And they said you were the crooked kind

And that you'd never have no worth

But you were always gold to me

-

Two Men In Love by The Irrepressibles 

See me running, running, running, running, running

Running, running, running, running, running

Running, running, running, running, running

To you, from you, to you

-

Silence by Marshmello

I found peace in your violence

-

Better Than I Know Myself by Adam Lambert

I sometimes tend to lose my temper

And I cross the line

Yeah that's the truth

I know it gets hard sometimes

But I could never leave your side

No matter what I say

-

Eric’s Song by Vienna Teng

And of course I forgive

I've seen how you live

Like a phoenix you rise from the ashes

-

New York by St. Vincent (Cassius Dio 54.28.3: When [Augustus] learned of Agrippa's illness, he set out for Italy; and found him dead.)

I have lost a hero, I have lost a friend

But for you darling I'd do it all again

[kalinara]

I think there's a lot of meta that can be said about Scott as a leader, and the type of leader that he is and has been forced to be.

You could make an argument that, for all that he's very good at being a leader, it's not actually something that he tends to seek out. Xavier initially made him field leader and kept up and vanishing on him, which is why he tends to go from field leader/general to a more all-purpose leader a lot of the time.

I think really, Xavier's REAL successor should always have been Jean, rather than Scott. He should be the Agrippa to her Augustus. The problem is that even when he skips off to space or something, Xavier's still prominent, at least in theory, until the early 00s. When he finally goes too far, Jean's dead. So we have Scott in a position that he's really not suited for, which is probably why he ends up relying so heavily on Emma, back when they were running the school (either in the mansion or in LA), and then Magneto - at least in an emotional support way, when they went full swing into Utopia.

(I actually sometimes wonder if that wasn't part of the real reason that Hank left. Because Scott ended up leaning so heavily on the others that Hank was feeling unappreciated. The whole "your plans never got you tortured" was so laughably incorrect that I always thought it was clear there was more to his feelings.)

X-Men Blue swings at the idea I think, by making Teen-Jean the O5 team leader. But I think it doesn't quite hit the mark because there are different leadership skills at work. Scott IS uniquely suited to field leadership, but Jean's more suited toward the ideological, broad minded leadership that Xavier provided beyond the team. The O5, being time lost teenagers amidst a sea of angry adults, weren't really in a position to utilize that. (We DO start seeing it, I think, once Jean returns. And it's kind of a shame that we never get to explore the dynamic of her and Scott as reunited co-leaders before Krakoa comes back in swing.)

I think Scott, as Captain Commander, was probably in the position that he was happiest. It just couldn't last, because the Council made stupid decisions, leading him and Jean to decide that the X-Men are necessary after all.

I think Emma and Forge (and implicitly others, I feel like I remember some other grumbling) are being decidedly unfair with their expectations/assumptions. But I feel like that's par for the course for the poor guy.

I do wonder if that isn't something we'll see toyed with in the future, since it does maybe seem to be an element in the Rogue-Scott dynamic pre-Raid (that whole weird "stepping up" bit. The guy was imprisoned for six months! You'd think he could have a bit of a break, right?)

I think my biggest problem with Xavier's vision of Krakoa (Watsonian critique, not Doylistic), is that he seems to think that just because permanent death isn't a thing anymore, then everything's safe and fine.

I'm not saying Xavier shouldn't have invited ex-villains onto the island, but it's obvious very quickly that there are no safeguards or protections for any of these villains' former victims. Or any future victims.

So we get some awful scenes like Jamie Braddock taunting Meggan or Mr. Sinister telling Scott that he's prettier when he smiles (that one in the middle of the fucking COUNCIL meeting) and there's apparently nothing that can be done about that?

The Shadow King gets to hang around children, leading to the death of Gabby Kinney (and in her case there was some question about whether or not they'd resurrect her because she was a clone.) Sinister, we're told in Hellions, still has an ORPHANAGE. There weren't kids there, at least, but still. The fuck?

And then there's Madelyne Pryor. And yes, I agree that, back in the 80s, she was screwed by the narrative. But she's done a lot of things since then. Maybe. I admit, I can't really keep track of whether or not the one who tortured Scott and company in the 00s was actually THIS Madelyne or another dimension's. But THIS version is introduced torturing people.

Alex pushes for her resurrection. And any counter argument is immediately neutralized by pointing out that Sinister is on the Council. And...well, yeah. But it's POSSIBLE that some of Madelyne's victims might not have been on board with her running free, but that's not a thing we get to hear. (We are told that Jean supported her resurrection much later. Which I do believe, but I also think the narrative doesn't really allow any other possibility.)

Xavier's very self-congratulatory about the no prisons on Krakoa thing. Of course, there's the Pit. You go in there if you're recalcitrant and break the rules. Even if you're a child. And then you get tortured by Sabretooth because no one bothers to check in on the prisoners, apparently.

To break immersion, in a Doylistic sense, I really enjoy that Krakoa has its darker sides. This isn't a paradise for every character, and it's no surprise, when you think about it that the Summer House is on the Moon instead of Krakoa proper.

But in a Watsonian sense... Any fan of the Wolverines can verify that you don't need permanent physical harm to have a massive amount of trauma and pain.

It makes sense. Charles has that King Arthur fantasy, and part of that involves seating some of his strongest enemies at the Round Table. And it makes sense that the man whose first X-Man was an abused child that he rescued and made into his field commander doesn't necessarily have an awareness or appreciation of long term trauma.

But somehow Cassandra Nova gets to be resurrected in a safely isolated place, away from any and all possible victims. Funny how that wasn't an option for anyone else.

[zoesiapie]

rome was not built in a day

Octavian breathes again, his cheeks flushed from the accusations and from what Marcus is up to. He feels himself boiling over. “Rome...”

Agrippa strips him of the top of the tunic, tickles his chest. “Rome, can't you see that's all you think about? Then you should let me build.”

Curse the day he chose him as a aediles. “Rome was not built in a day.”

[ancientrome]

Wall painting on black ground: landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase. Roman, Pompeian last decade of the 1st century BCE. x

Many private summer villas were located along the coast near Naples. One of the most sumptuous must have been the villa built by Agrippa, friend of the emperor Augustus and husband of his daughter, Julia. It stood overlooking the Bay of Naples from a spot near the modern town of Boscotrecase. The villa was partially excavated between 1903 and 1905 after its accidental discovery during work on a railway. Wall decorations that still survived in four bedrooms were removed. The Metropolitan Museum acquired sections from three rooms and the Archaeological Museum at Naples received the rest.

Agrippa died in 12 B.C. and his son, Agrippa Postumus became the villa's proprietor in 11 B.C. as inscriptions found there indicate. The frescoes must have been painted during renovations begun at the time. Painted by artists working for the imperial household, they are among the finest existing examples of Roman wall painting.

The so-called Black Room was one of a sequence of bedrooms facing south toward the downward slope of the mountain and the sea. The source of light was a wide doorway giving onto a terrace or promenade.

This ambiguous and sophisticated decoration is a masterpiece of the so-called third style of Roman wall painting, which flourished during the reign of Augustus. The theme is a playful rendition of architectural motif. A low red dado serves as the base from which a skeleton of thin white columns appears to rise against a black background. There almost weightless columns support pavilions, candelabra, tripods, and a narrow cornice that runs around the room. They were embellished with jewel-like decorations. On the back wall tiny swans, the bird of Apollo, patron god of Augustus, perch improbably on threadlike spirals, and yellow panels with Egyptianizing motifs must have brought to mind the recent annexation of Egypt after the death of Cleopatra in 30 B.C. This architectural scheme creates almost no sense of depth or volume. The black walls behind appear at once to be flat and to dissolve into limitless space. Tiny landscape vignettes float like islands in the middle of this blackness. Burnished to a high polish, these walls must have appeared magical indeed when illuminated by lamps at night.

[romegreeceart]

Famous people

Tag list of famous people from Ancient Rome and Greece. A few hellenistic rulers and some Etruscans are also included.

And for some reason the page is not working properly. The HTML code is there, but it only works on my dashboard. On this page links are inactive. I figure that page only understands “/tagged/Agrippina-the-Elder” - versions, but I’m too lazy / busy to rewrite the code. So if you want to check a tag, you’ll have to copy and paste it after the word “ .../tagged/”. And same goes for all the lists below.

URLs + copy&paste:

https://romegreeceart.tumblr.com/tagged/

https://romegreeceart.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/

A

Aelia Flaccilla- Pillar of the Church

Agrippina the Elder

Agrippina the Younger

Aemilia Lepida and her descendants  v emperor Nero

Aeschylus

Aetius

Alaric

Alcibiades

Alexander the Great

Ancus Marcius

Antinous

Antiochus I Soter

Antiochus III the Great

Antisthenes (philosopher, cynic school)

Antonia Minor - mother of Claudius and Germanicus

Antoninus Pius

Apicius

Apollodorus of Damascus

Apollonius of Tralles (Greek sculptor)

Aristotle

Arsinoe II

Arsinoe III

Artemisia II of Caria

Aspasia

Atticus (Cicero’s friend)

Attila

Augustus

Aulus Rustius Verus (Pompeian politician)

Aurelianus

B

Baltimore painter (Apulia, 4th century BCE)

Berenike II

Britannicus

Brygos Painter

Brutus (liberator, founder of the republic)

Brutus (assassin)

C

Caesarion

Caligula

Callimachus

Caracalla

Carausius (Roman Britain, emperor)

Carinus

Cassius Dio

Catiline

Cato the Elder

Cato the Younger

Cicero

Claudia Antonia (emperor’s daughter)

Claudius

Claudius Gothicus

Cleopatra

Cleopatra Selene

Cleopatra III

Clodius Albinus

Commodus

Constantine the Great

Constantius II

Constantius Chlorus

Corbulo

Cornelia Africana

Cornelia Minor (Caesar’s wife)

Crispina

Crispus (Constantine’s eldest son)

Croesus

Cynisca (Spartan princess, olympic winner)

D

Darius III

Decius

Demosthenes

Didia Clara (daughter of Didius Julianus)

Didius Julianus

Diocletianus

Dioscorides Pedanius (physician, botanist)

Diva Claudia (daughter of Nero)

Domitianus

Drusus Caesar (son of Germanicus)

Drusus the Younger (son of Tiberius)

Drusus the Elder (son of Livia)

E

Elagabalus

Eumachia (Pompeian priestess and patroness)

Euripides

F

Fabius Maximus Cunctator (”The Shield of Rome”)

Faustina Maior

Faustina Minor

Female painters

Flavian dynasty

G

Gaius Caesar

Galerius

Galba

Galen

Galla Placidia

Gallic emperors

Gallienus

Germanicus

Gelon

Gens Aemilia

Gens Cornelia

Gens Calpurnia

Geta

Gordian I

Gordian II

Gordian III

Gracchi Brothers

Gratian

Greek tyrants

H

Hadrianus

Hannibal

Hegias (Greek sculptor, 5th century BCE

Hellenistic kings

Herennius Etruscus (co-emperor)

Hermione Grammatike

Herodes Atticus

Herodotus

Hippocrates

Historians

Homeros

Honorius

Hostilianus

I

Iaia of Cyzicus (female painter)

Jovianus

Juba II

Julia (Augustus’ daughter)

Julia Aquilia Severa (Vestal virgin and empress)

Julia Domna

Julia Drusilla

Julia Felix (Pompeian business woman)

Julia Flavia (Titus’ daughter)

Julia Maesa

Julia Soaemias

Julian the Apostate

Julio-Claudian family (julioclaudian)

Julio-Claudian dynasty

Julio-Claudian

Julio-Claudian dynasty

Julius Caesar 1

Julius Caesar (2)

Julius Vindex

K

Kings

Kresilas (Athenian sculptor)

Kritios (Athenian sculptor)

L

Lady of Aigai

Lady of Vix (Celtic woman, late 6th century BCE)

Lassia (priestess of Ceres, Pompeii)

Lepidus

Leonidas

Livia

Livilla

Livius

Lucilla (daughter of Marcus Aurelius)

Lucius Appuleius Saturninus

Lucius Caecilius Jucundus (Pompeian banker)

Lucius Caesar

Lucius Herennius Flores (Boscoreale Villa, real owner ?)

Lucius Verus

Lysippos

Lysippos 2

M

Maecenas

Macrinus

Magnus Maximus

Mamia (Pompeian priestess and patroness)

Marcellus (Augustus’ heir)

Marcus Agrippa

Marcus Antonius

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Claudius Tacitus (emperor)

Marcus Licinius Crassus

Marcus Terentius Varro

Marius

Martialis

Masinissa

Maussollos of Halicarnassos

Maxentius

Maximianus

Maximinus Daia

Maximinus Thrax

Members of imperial families

Menander

Miami painter

Milonia Caesonia

Miltiades (Greek general)

Mona Lisa of Galilee

Myron

N

Nero

Nero Julius Caesar (son of Germanicus)

Nerva

Nerva-Antonine family

Numa Pompilius

O

Octavia the Younger (Augustus’ sister)

Octavia (Claudius’ daughter)

Optimates

Otho

Ovidius

P

Paionios (Greek sculptor)

Patronesses

Penthesilea painter

Pericles

Pertinax

Pescennius Niger

Pheidias

Philip the Arab

Philosophers

Philip II of Macedonia

Phryne (Greek courtesan)

Plancia Magna

Plato

Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Younger

Poets

Polykleitos

Pompeius

Poppaea Sabina

Populares

Postumus Agrippa

Postumus (Gallic emperor)

Probus

Ptolemy of Mauretania

Praxiteles

Ptolemy I

Publius Clodius Pulcher

Publius Fannius Synistor

Publius Licinius Crassus (triumvir’s younger son)

Publius Sittius

Publius Quinctilius Varus

Pythagoras

Pyrrhus

Pytheas (a greek explorer)

Q

Queens

R

Roman Caesars (= princes, heirs to the throne)

Roman Civil War Commanders

Roman client kings

Roman consuls

Roman dictators

Roman emperors

Roman empresses

Roman generals

Roman gentes

Romans who declined the throne

Romulus Augustulus

Romulus and Remus

S

Sabina

Sallustius

Sappho

Scipio Africanus

Scopas

Sejanus

Septimius Severus

Seven sages

Severan dynasty

Severus Alexander

Sextus Pompeius

Shuvalov painter

Silanion ( Greek sculptor)

Socrates

Solon

Sophocles

Stilicho

Strabo

Sulla

Sulpicia (Roman female poet)

T

Tacitus

Tarpeia

Tarquinius Superbus

Themistocles

Theodosius

Theophrastus

Thucydides

Tiberius

Tiberius Claudius Verus (Pompeian politician)

Tigranes the Great

Titus

Titus Labienus

Titus Tatius

Titus Quinctius Flaminius

Trajanus

Trebonianus Gallus

Tribunes of the plebs

U

Ulpia Severina  (interim sovereign in 275 CE)

Urban prefects

Usurpers

V

Vaballathus (Palmyran king)

Valens

Valentinianus I

Valentinianus III (murderer of Aetius)

Valerianus

Valeria Messalina

Vel Saties

Velia Velcha (“Mona Lisa of antiquity”)

Velimna family (Hypogeum, Brescia)

Vercingetorix

Vergilius

Vespasianus

Vibia Sabina

Vipsania Agrippina

Viriathus (Lusitanian freedom fighter)

Vitellius

Volusianus

X

Xenophon

Y

Z

Zenobia