#palazzo massimo alle terme

[lionofchaeronea]

Pegasus. Attic red-figure plate, artist unknown; 420s BCE. Now in the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome. Photo credit: Carole Raddato.

[mercuriicultores]

~130-138, (Auctor incertus), Ritratto di Antinoo (Palazzo Massimo)

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Childhood of Dionysos: From the cubiculum B of the villa Farnesina (Dionysos with the nymphs of Mt. Nysa, to whom Zeus has entrusted the care of his baby-son).

Date: 1st century B.C.-A.D. 1st century

Provinience: Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme (Roma, Museo nazionale romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme).

[eucanthos]

The 'Doidalses Aphrodite' or Bathing Venus

Photo by Federico Pestilli

Crouching Venus, Hadrianic copy of Greek original by Doidalsas, once situated at the Heliocaminus Baths at Villa Adriana, Tivoli, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome.

Doidalsas or Doidalses was a sculptor from Bithynia active in mid-3rd c. BC and created the votive bronze statue of Bathing Aphrodite, which made him famous (commissioned by the king of Bithynia Nicomedes I (279-255 BC), because he could not acquire Aphrodite of Knidos)

https://www.federicopestilli.com/

https://followinghadrian.com/2014/03/12/art-and-sculptures-from-hadrians-villa-marble-statue-of-a-crouching-venus/

https://www.art-prints-on-demand.com/a/anonymous-painter/the-doidalses-aphrodite-o.html

[auroraborealis22]

Wall fresco painting From the subterranean hall of the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta. 40—20 BCE. Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme

[italiasparita]

Roma. Palazzo Massimo alle Terme

[thatshowthingstarted]

Portonaccio 'Battle Sarcophagus', ca. AD 180-190,

Image: Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome,

Photography: Jean-Pol Grandmot

[eucanthos]

Tiber Apollo, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiber_Apollo

I segni del tempo ©Tiziana Loiacono

[lionofchaeronea]

Death of a Charioteer

Martial, Epigrams X.53

I am the famous Scorpus, glory of the shout-filled Circus, Source of your clapping, Rome, and your brief delight; Envious Lachesis snatched me away at twenty-seven-- Counting my victories, she thought me elderly.

Ille ego sum Scorpus, clamosi gloria Circi, Plausus, Roma, tui deliciaeque breves, Invida quem Lachesis raptum trieteride nona, Dum numerat palmas, credidit esse senem.

Mosaic depicting a charioteer of the albata (White) faction, one of the four factions that dominated Roman chariot racing, with his horse. Artist unknown; 1st half of 3rd cent. CE. From the Villa dei Severi, Baccano; now in the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome.

[eauverdose]

Le pugiliste ou boxeur des Thermes, sculpture grecque en bronze à la cire perdue (seconde moitié du IVe siècle av. J.-C.). Trouvée enterrée sur les pentes du mont Quirinal à Rome en 1885, elle ornait probablement les thermes de Constantin pendant l'Antiquité.

Palazzo Massimo alle terme.

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Head of Medusa; Head of a wolf.

(Decorative cover of an end of cantilevered beam of a ship)

Period: Reign of Caligula (A. D. 37-41).

Provinience: , Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme (Roma, Museo nazionale romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme).

Medium: Brass

[eucanthos]

Apollonius the Athenian   (active 1st c. BC)

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Boxer at Rest / Seated Boxer / Terme Boxer, 330 to 50 BCE. Greek bronze with copper inlays, 140 × 64 × 115 cm. Εxcavated in Herculaneum (Rome) in 1885, collection of the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, National Museum of Rome.

Pankration, an ancient Greek sports event that combined wrestling and boxing (the only recognized fouls were biting and gouging) was introduced at the XXXIII Olympiad (648 BC). The word derived from the Greek words παν and κράτος, which means complete power and control [over]. There weren’t weight divisions and the fight ended with one of the combatants knocked out or signaled surrender by raising his index finger. 

Due to the often deaths inside the arena, after ca. 200 BC, the judges had the right to stop a contest if the life of the athletes was in danger.

According to Andreas Georgiou (historian and writer of “Pankration–An Olympic Combat Sport”), pankration wasn’t only an Olympic sport, but a technique that both Spartan hoplites and Alexander the Great’s Macedonian phalanx used in battle.

The Romans adopted pankration, called pancratium in Latin. But in 393 AD, this ancient martial art, along with gladiatorial combat and all pagan festivals, was abolished by the Christian Byzantine emperor Theodosius I.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_at_Rest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thermae_boxer_Massimo_Inv1055.jpg

https://brewminate.com/ancient-greek-boxing-legends-and-history/

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/pankration-deadly-martial-art-form-ancient-greece-005221

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/ancient-mediterranean-ap/greece-etruria-rome/v/apollonius-boxer-at-rest-c-100-b-c-e

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Apollonius-the-Athenian

Sep 24, 2020 previous eucanthos’ post

[hedgewitchgarden]

Head of Medusa

Period: Reign of Caligula (A. D. 37-41).

Provinience: , Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme (Roma, Museo nazionale romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme).

Medium: Brass X

[lamilanomagazine]

Sicilia: presentati i piani di recupero e manutenzione delle terme di Sciacca e Acireale

Sicilia: presentati i piani di recupero e manutenzione delle terme di Sciacca e Acireale Procede spedito l'iter di recupero e rilancio delle terme di Sciacca e Acireale. Si sono conclusi, infatti, i sopralluoghi del dipartimento regionale Tecnico che stamattina, nel corso di una riunione convocata a Palazzo d'Orléans dal presidente della Regione Siciliana, Renato Schifani, ha consegnato i risultati delle ricognizioni e i cosiddetti "quadri esigenziali", ovvero il piano degli interventi necessari al recupero e alla manutenzione, e gli studi di fattibilità dei progetti di riqualificazione. Nel corso dell'incontro, cui hanno preso parte anche i rappresentati dei dipartimenti regionali coinvolti nella gestione dei siti (Finanze ed Energia), sono stati illustrate le ipotesi progettuali basate sul perseguimento della sostenibilità ambientale, in particolare riguardo alle componenti di consumo energetico e orientate verso le più avanzate soluzioni tecnologiche. «Abbiamo fatto - dice il presidente Schifani - un altro passo avanti verso il recupero delle terme di Sciacca e Acireale. Si tratta di un passo concreto perché abbiamo messo nero su bianco i fabbisogni e le diverse idee progettuali. Abbiamo concluso questa prima fase in meno di due settimane e posso garantire che andremo avanti con il massimo impegno e la massima celerità anche per i prossimi step. Il rilancio dei due siti è sempre stato nell'agenda del mio governo e ci stiamo impegnando al massimo non solo per una doverosa risposta alle aspettative dei territori interessati, ma perché credo che il turismo termale possa costituire una risorsa importante per l'offerta turistica di tutta la Sicilia».... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

[liminalneeds]

Fresco fragment representing a group of three marine animals fighting; an octopus clutches a moray eel and a lobster in its tentacles, 2nd quarter of 2nd century AD, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme (via Carole Raddato)

[yourlocalmisthios]

Rome.

The eternal city.

All roads lead to Rome they say...

And in my long life, all roads lead me back to what I have known before.

Today is no different.

A friend now rests in the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme...National Museum of Rome, where he is admired, observed, and appreciated by new generations.

A friend I have known long before, in fact, thousands of years ago.

And here, in the silence of this magnificent hall, where your splendid figure is displayed, I stand before you once again, still in awe after millennia.

"We meet again, my old friend."

Like you, I too have been an Olympic champion. The only difference is that you have already found rest and the admiration of several generations, while I continue to wander the Earth, tending to the balance of things, until the gods... or the whims of Aletheia, say "enough."

#acodyssey #assassin's creed #kassandra #misthios