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Mickey Mouse and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit as Romulus and Remus, as the founders of Rome - Toon History - History in Duckverse and Mouseverse - Happy Birthday to the Best City!

Yes, it's time to change my plans now with my new project called Toon Historia, also History in Duckverse and Mouseverse in which our famous cartoon and comic characters play famous historical figures and will play in important historical events . And first I drew Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Mickey Mouse as the founders of Rome, as Romulus and Remus. Romulus and Remus, according to Roman mythology and Roman tradition, were the sons of Rhea Sylvia and the god Mars and grandsons of King Numitor. Numitor's brother Amulius overthrew his brother and ordered the execution of his children, including the sons of Sylvia who were thrown into the Tiber River. However, according to legend, a she-wolf found them and raised them until the shepherd Faustulus came along and adopted them. Afterwards they grew up and when they heard the truth, they went to overthrow Amulius and succeeded and restored their grandfather Numitor to be king of the city of Alba. Afterwards, Romulus and Remus went to seven hills in the valley of the Tiber River and there on April 21, 753 BC they founded the eternal city, which will be called Rome. Yes, there was a conflict between the two in which Romulus killed his brother (a tragic event) and thus took the title of the first king of Rome.

Oswald and Mickey who were created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney in 1927 and 1928 also became the first Disney icons, however the conflict between Iwerks and Disney resulted in Oswald being part of Universal, until in 2006 Disney bought the rights to Oswald. Yes, that's why I drew Mickey and Oswald as Romulus and Remus, because of that parallel, but don't worry, Mickey won't kill his brother, even though mice and rabbits are not the same species, they are still considered brothers because of Epic Mickey. As Romulus and Remus were the founders of Rome, so Oswald and Mickey were the founders of the new world.

I drew this last year, but I waited for this moment to publish now and I drew it as a redraw from an illustration by Tancredi Scarpelli (1866–1937) for Storia d'Italia by Paolo Giudici (Nerbini, 1929). I drew Mickey in my own style, while I left the old look for Oswald, because I still like him better with dot eyes. And yes, I drew this on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the creation of Disney as well as the 75th anniversary of Topolino magazine, which is published in Italy, and the capital of Italy is definitely Rome. Yes, Rome, the eternal city and capital of one of the greatest empires and greatest civilizations of all time. As well as related to the birthday of the City of Rome, which is celebrated on April 21 every year. Happy Rome Day! Roma Aeterna!

I hope you like this drawing and this idea and if you want to support feel free to like and reblog this! I just ask that you don't copy my same ideas without mentioning me and without my permission. Thank you! Happy Rome Day, my favorite city in the world!

[risingtolove]

photo ©Marino Mannarini all rights reserved

[bobmorane]

We used to have a country, a real country y’know...

[lionofchaeronea]

Gold solidus of Priscus Attalus, minted in 409-10 CE. A senator from a long-standing aristocratic family who eventually became praefectus urbi (city prefect) of Rome, Attalus converted to Arian Christianity in 409 and was proclaimed emperor by the similarly Arian Visigoths, in opposition to the Catholic ruler Honorius. He would spend two brief periods in power before Honorius finally defeated and captured him in 416, leading to the last triumphal procession in the Western Roman Empire. (Two of Attalus' fingers were cut off, but he was allowed to live and banished to the Lipari Islands north of Sicily.)

On the obverse, the bust of Attalus, wearing a pearl diadem and a cuirass. On the reverse, the seated figure of Roma, holding a globe atop which Victory perches, surrounded by the inscription INVICTA ROMA AETERNA--a somewhat hollow boast, as Rome itself would be sacked by the Visigoths in 410. Photo credit: Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG

[legofanguy1999]

GURPS Alternate Earths ocs

Here are my ocs for the tabletop RPG GURPS Alternate Earths.

Denver, a Candian man from Earth Dixie.

Chiyako, a Japanese woman from Earth Reich-5.

Edward, a man from Earth Roma Aeterna.

Genzo, a Japanese man from Earth Shikaku-Mon.

Jong, a Native American man from Earth Ezacalli.

Henry, a American man from Earth Gernsback.

Conner, a Austria man from Earth Cornwallis.

Manchu, a Chinese man from Earth Ming-3.

Davis, a Norman man from Earth Midgard.

Hafiz, a Arabic man from Earth Caliph.

Samus, a man from Earth Aeolus.

Felicity, a European woman from Earth Centurm.

[iphis-et-iante]

relearning latin and greek

reading Roma Aeterna sucks ass

sed tamen iterum perlegi pars I llpsi duabus septimanis :)

i need a breath of fresh air so I'll read some juvenal and start Logos this evening

[publiusscipiospqr]

Fellow Rome enthusiast I believe?

Yessir! Roma aeterna 🙏🙏 Love Rome, one day I’ll post all of my armour and toga studies :) If it wasn’t obvious by my username my favourite general in all of history is Scipio Africanus (From the Second Punic War), close behind is Caesar though.

My favourite emperors are Augustus and Aurelian, it’s nice to meet another person that likes Rome! Mind dropping some things you like about Rome? 👀👀

[roosterarts]

Roma, Roma, O Roma!

Legio, aeterna, aeterna victrix!

The Cornicen was a crucial member of a Roman legion's system of command. Through their horns they were able to sound out commands to the various cohorts and centuries of the legion.

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[arlindogrund]

Anne Hathaway e Zendaya estrelam nova campanha da Bulgari

Duas das maiores estrelas de Hollywood atualmente estão juntas mais uma vez para a campanha ‘Eternally Reborn’ da Bulgari. Nesta temporada, Anne Hathaway e Zendaya se unem a Liu Yifei para apresentar as joias da coleção ‘Aeterna’, em meio a alguns dos cenários mais emblemáticos de Roma. Anne aparece usando peças com pedras preciosas multicoloridas e vibrantes junto de diamantes, enquanto Zendaya…

[altarquartz]

15 days of deity devotion - day 5, venus

day 5: names and epithets

venus was often addressed as these epithets, but also seen as a mother figure to rome. lately i've personally felt called to address her as "mother" or "mama venus," and i feel connected to her being a mother figure to me.

i'm positive this list is not comprehensive.

Alma: mother/”Mother Venus”

Anadyomene: of the sea (related to her origin)

Armata: armed

Aurea: golden

Barbata: bearded 

Caelestis: of the heavens/heavenly

Callipyge: of the beautiful buttocks (one of my favorite epithets)

Calva: the bald one, also relating to “mock or annoy," in the way one does while flirting (related to sacrificing your hair to Venus; prayers for hair growth via cutting it off)

Cloacina: the purifier

Erycina: of Eryx

Euploia: of the fair voyage

Felix: bringer of good fortune

Felix et Roma Aeterna: favorable Venus and eternal Rome

Genetrix: the mother

Libertina: the freed woman

Murcia: of myrtle

Obsequens: indulgent

Physia: universal force that informs the physical world

Pontia: of the sea (related to safe voyages)

Urania: heavenly

Verticordia: changer of hearts, related to her festival Veneralia

Victrix: bringer of (military) victory

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[romaaeterna2024]

Roma Aeterna Trip by the numbers:

58 miles walked total

an average of 19,000 steps each day

137 flights of stairs climbed, 29 in one day

8 gelato stops (for a 7 day trip lol)

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Very Rare Gold Medallion by Roman Emperor Maxentius 

The gold quaternio struck by the emperor Maxentius around 308 A.D. to celebrate himself for rebuilding the Temple of Venus and Roma in Rome sold at auction on November 2nd for $312,000, well above its pre-sale estimate of $100,000 – $200,000.

The Templum Veneris et Romae was a double temple dedicated to the goddess Venus Felix, mother of Aeneas and through him of the Roman people, and to Roma Aeterna, the deity who was the personification of the city and larger state. The temple was constructed by Emperor Hadrian in 135 A.D., but he didn’t just order it built. He fancied himself something of a draftsman/architect and he personally designed the plans for this temple. They were not universally acclaimed, to put it mildly, and when Trajan’s revered architect Apollodorus of Damascus voiced his objections to Hadrian’s plan, the emperor had him executed and built it the way he wanted.

The temple was huge, built on a platform 475 feet long and 330 feet wide along the Sacred Way on the slopes of the Velia hill next to the Colosseum. More than 100 feet high, it was the largest temple in the city and for centuries one of the most important shrines in the empire. Construction of the temple is what spurred the removal of the colossal statue of Nero, which gave the Flavian Amphitheater its nickname. (The machinery Apollodorus talks about being stored in the temple were the apparatuses used in the spectacles at the amphitheater.) Hadrian took a non-standard approach to temple design, placing the cellae (the rooms where the images of the goddesses dwelled) back-to-back instead of side-by-side. This was a bit of an anagram pun on Hadrian’s part. AMOR (love) is ROMA spelled backwards.

When the temple was heavily damaged in a fire in 307 A.D., Maxentius rebuilt it. He did not follow in Hadrian’s architectural footprints, but instead had it reconstructed in the apdsidal form with vaulted ceilings that was typical of early 4th century Rome. He replaced the burned wooden ceiling with a stone coffered vault and doubled the thickness of the walls to support it. He also redid the cellae so they conformed to the classical design that Hadrian had eschewed. Most of the temple was destroyed in an earthquake in the 9th century and the church built in the ruins, but the remains of the cella and vaulted apse still stand today.

Maxentius made this project the cornerstone of his imperial identity. For four years, the rest of his reign until his death in battle against Constantine in 312 A.D., Maxentius would be the last emperor to live in Rome, but his dedication to the physical fabric of the city was forgotten, largely by design of his successor. Constantine issued a damnatio memoriae decree against Maxentius, destroying all public references to him, including the inscriptions on the buildings he had restored or constructed. Constantine took all the credit for them instead, propped up by Christian writers villainizing his former rival as a tyrannical brute and lionizing Constantine, who built a new capital a thousand miles away and named it after himself, as Rome’s reviver.

Another Roman gold medallion minted for a less virtue-signaling purpose also sold at the same coin auction. It is an eight aurei medallion, so a single gold coin weighing eight times the amount of a circulation aureus, but it sold for $63,000, a fifth of the price of the quaternio. It was minted in Milan in 268 A.D. by a brand-new emperor, Claudius II. His predecessor Gallienus had been assassinated by one of his officers while besieging Milan to quash yet another attempted usurpation. The troops then acclaimed Claudius emperor.

Claudius II

There were rumors that Claudius was in on the assassination, but if so, he was unusually kind to the allies and family of the man he killed to snatch his throne. He spared Gallenius’ supporters from reprisals and focused instead on fighting the Gothic invasion of Rome’s Balkan provinces. To accomplish his military goals, Claudius had to ensure the loyalty of the army. The best way to accomplish that, established by centuries of tradition at this pont, was to buy it. The price to buy off the officers was 10 gold aurei each, an enormous sum. The highest-ranking and most influential officers received their bribes in the form of these gigantic gold medallions.

The eight-aurei medallion of Claudius II features the laureate cuirassed bust of the emperor on the obverse and the goddess Concordia holding the standards of the legions on the reverse. The inscription on the reverse reads CORCORDIA EXERCITVS, ie, “harmony in the army,” because that was exactly what he was buying. Claudius was famous for his strength as a wrestler and in hand-to-hand combat. He once reputedly punched a horse in the face and knocked out its teeth. He was a direct man, to put it mildly, and called them as he saw them even on his giant bribe coins.

It worked, though. In 270, Claudius led the army to a massive victory over the Goths at the Battle of Naissus in modern-day Serbia. He was granted a triumph and the cognomen Gothicus. He didn’t get to enjoy either, but not because of treachery among the officer staff. Plague took his life before the bloom was off the rose. He was immediately deified and heavily mourned in spite of (or perhaps because of) his all-too-brief reign.

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photo ©Marino Mannarini all rights reserved

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The Vestal Virgins are the most famous look at the Graeco-Roman Goddess cult in practice:

The Vestal Virgins, as the main all-women priesthood to be a major focus of the otherwise men-centric writing and view of the Graeco-Roman world are also among the most important illustrations of the old Goddess cult in practice. As the name notes they were also proof that the idea of sacred chastity did not, in fact, start with the Church. The Church just made it mandatory for everyone all the time.

The Vestal Virgins in the sacred world of the old Classical polytheistic religion had one of the most key roles to play in guarding the sacred space of Roma Aeterna. As a prominent symbol of paganism and its ties to the old Roman state they were also among the first priesthoods abolished by the new Christian world of Constantine and Theodosius.

Their role in real terms was to guard the sacred fire of Vesta, to ensure that it did not go out, and as long as they were a part of the priesthood to remain chaste. Women who were caught not doing so were buried alive and this is recorded under both the Republic and the Empire.

[viaparata]

Lux Aeterna

Museo dell'Ara Pacis, Roma.

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