#copie romane

[cleliaaconti]

Discobolo Lancellotti

Artista: Mirone

Supporto: Bronzo

Altezza: 156 cm

Data: 455 a.C.

Materiale: marmo (bronzo l'originale)

Ubicazione: Museo nazionale romano di Palazzo Massimo, Roma (Discobolo Lancellotti)

Originale erano bronzo, ora sono note solo le copie romane in marmo.

[logicpng]

how does he make these anyway

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Ludwig von Hofer (German, 1801-1887) Psyche, 1835

[maxphilippa]

AND NO ONE TAKES YOU SERIOUSLY.

/nf

[archiveofaffinities]

Caesars Palace, "World of Caesar" Replica of an ancient Roman Temple, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1986

[spoondoodles]

I blacked out and more Logince HS AU appeared on my canvas idk what happened (also ty @oatmeal-stans-the-trash-rat for some inspiration sorry it took so long to make a post about Them <3)

[aliennopossumm]

yes, i adore 2012 raph and casey just being best friends, and i will never imply that interpreting their relationship as romantic makes it any stronger of a bond. but interpreting it as an unrequited romance makes me feel insane

theyre best friends and they love each other so much. but because theyre best friends they dont want to make anything awkward by confessing. so they just play fight a little harder to touch one another, even for a second more

theyre so "bro let me homoerotically tend to your wounds after youre critically injured. let me hold you close so that if you die, your heart stops next to mine. theres this part of me that doesnt want you to wake up to this because its such a tender moment and im afraid for you to see this side of me. but dude, losing you would make me lose myself, and im equally afraid of that too"

[foxholecourt22]

Sometimes I remember that the perfect court tattoos aren’t roman numerals and it is a rude reawaken for me every time. Idk why but my brain wanted those babies to be like “I, II, III, IV” SO BAD

[cakebatteronabrickwall]

succession ends with the siblings spreading logan’s ashes by his childhood home, but the wind picks up and blows the ash right back into their faces which shows you’ll never be able to escape your abusive father, not even in death, but it’s also really fucking funny (and hopeful, because you can at least wipe off ash like dirt)

[brother-emperors]

Lucullus and Cicero were, as I have said, ardent friends, and members of the same political party, for Lucullus had not withdrawn himself entirely from political life, although he lost no time in leaving to Crassus and Cato the ambitious struggle for the chief place and the greatest power, since he saw that it involved both peril and ignominy.

-Plutarch, Lucullus

rejected panel layouts for a scene between lucullus and crassus, but it was still fun enough to play with that it gets memorialized on the blog :)

crassus ???? reaction has less to do with his own characterization and more to do with me, who was mostly thinking about how much cato wanted to Stab Sulla and completely forgot that lucullus had independent ties with cato. like, a whole relationship dynamic was going on with those two.

so jump cut to

lmao. anyway! something interesting (gestures vaguely) is happening in all of this

Cato the Younger: Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic, Fred K. Drogula

Lucullus, a Life, Arthur Keaveney

A Life in Pieces, Plutarch, Crassus 12.1-16-8, James T Chlup

Lucullus: A Life, Arthur Keaveney

Plutarch, Cato 3

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost

[introspectivememories]

i wish you guys could feel the way i felt when reading HOO and realizing in real time that "oh, riordan clearly does not care about the romans". like the downplay is insane!!! as if the greeks and romans were not two separate cultures!!! you cannot one-to-one the gods!!! jason never gets all his memories back, percy ends up remembering everything. jason struggles to fit in at chb, they make percy praetor in one fucking week! not to mention the very weird addition of saying that camp jupiter was part of the confederacy???? like he very clearly does not care about the romans

[duxfemina]

A depiction of me with my Roman beloveds

[endofbeginings]

this is sooooooooo important to me

[sherdnerd]

Failed to exercise self control at the used bookstore today

[rainbowresurrection]

Still Thinking.

In TOS there was a lot of promise on fleshing out the Vulcan culture. You get phrases in Vulcan before you ever get any phrases in Klingon. Which makes it interesting that moving forward, you learn much more about the Klingon language.

As a language lover I'd be interested to know what the body of the Vulcan language would have looked like, had it been more officially explored. You know it would be filled with dichotomy, due to the ancient and ritualistic roots of the language versus the need for utmost logic, which would influence both grammatical structure and the writing system(s).

From what I've seen, the writing leans far more on the "ancient tradition" end of things. It's beautiful, yet it is lacking in terms of practicality.

I like to imagine that they would have multiple modes of writing- the loopy cursive writing for religious and cultural / ceremonial practices, and maybe a more standardized and phonetic script for daily use (likely to also be vertical and cursive, but can be written horizontally as well). Also I'm not sure how phonetic it is to begin with so I'm just making shit up here.

Well I know one thing for sure, they have at least 2 scripts, based on the writing seen on Spock's robes vs other scenarios (perhaps Old Vulcan or Ceremonial Vulcan).

Another fun thing I like to imagine is that perhaps Vulcan follows a root based system like Hebrew or Arabic. For example in the male names, the most common denominator is S----K or S--R--K.

SpocK, SaReK, SuRaK

Women, it is the letter T.

T'Pring, T'Pau

Both genders use the consonant P.

sPock, t'Pring

So, those consonants could be based on a certain shared notion, whereas the vowels change the nuance of the translation.

Arabic (Modern Standard) example, paying attention to the consonants:

KeTeBe = writing

KiTaaB = book

MeKTaB = desk

MeKTaBe = library

(sorry for the weak transliterations, it makes more sense looking at it in Arabic, you'll see the commonality in the consonants):

كتب

كتاب

مكتب

مكتبة

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