#roman europe

[ancientstuff]

Interesting article about the life of Roman soldiers in the far-flung areas of the empire.

[carneirodemercurio]

"Lento castaneae vapore tostae: Vinum tu facies bonum bibendo". Martialis.

"Chestnuts roasted on a slow fire: wine you make good by drinking" Martial.

At this time of year in numerous places in southern Europe chestnut festivals are held. In Galicia they go by the name Magosto (perhaps from Latin 'magnum ustum'). Chestnuts are roasted & eaten accompanied by the first wine of the recent harvest. A nice way to start winter.

"Castañas tostadas a lume lento: viño que fas bo bebendo." Marcial

[illustratus]

The Triumph of Light over Darkness by Franz von Matsch

[mybeautifulpoland]

All Saints' Day, Pilzno Cemetery, Subcarpathia, Poland by Krzysztof Kosowski

[communistkenobi]

On the one hand, slavery represented the most radical rural degradation of labour imaginable - the conversion of men themselves into inert means of production by their deprivation of every social right and their legal assimilation to beasts of burden: in Roman theory, the agricultural slave was designated an instrumentum vocale, the speaking tool, one grade away from the livestock that constituted an instrumentum semi-vocale, and two from the implement which was an instrumentum mutum. On the other hand, slavery was simultaneously the most drastic urban commercialization of labour conceivable: the reduction of the total person of the labourer to a standard object of sale and purchase, in metropolitan markets of commodity exchange.

— Perry Anderson (1974), Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, pp. 24-25

I always knew that the Roman Empire probably wasn’t great to live in for a variety of reasons but reading about the obscene amounts of chattel slavery they were doing is really driving home why all the fascist guys on twitter are obsessed with this period of history

[galliaestomnis]

Eglise Saint-Nicolas, Blois, France

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Charles-Amable Lenoir (French, 1860-1926) A dance by the sea, n.d.

[armthearmour]

An early Basket-hilted Broadsword,

OaL: 42.5 in/107.9 cm

Blade Length: 36.5 in/92.7 cm

Width: 5.75 in/14.6 cm

Depth: 4.25 in/10.8 cm

Weight: 3 lbs/1360.8 g

Potsdam, Germany, hilt ca. 1540, blade 17th century, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[dream-world-universe]

Siena Cathedral, Siena, Italy: Siena Cathedral is a medieval church in Siena, Italy, dedicated from its earliest days as a Roman Catholic Marian church, and now dedicated to the Assumption of Mary. It was the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Siena, and from the 15th century that of the Archdiocese of Siena. Wikipedia

[famousinuniverse]

Piazza dell'Anfiteatro, Lucca, Italy: Piazza dell'Anfiteatro is a public square in the northeast quadrant of the walled center of Lucca, region of Tuscany, Italy. The ring of buildings surrounding the square follows the elliptical shape of the former second century Roman amphitheater of Lucca. Wikipedia

[mapsontheweb]

Countries which have at some point in history claimed to be Rome's successor

[allthingseurope]

Pula, Croatia (by Vladimir)

[wgm-beautiful-world]

COLOSSEO ROMAMO

[illustratus]

The Sacred Grove of the Druids, set design from Vincenzo Bellini's Opera ''Norma''

[mybeautifulpoland]

 St. John of Dukla Catholic Chapel, Subcarpathia, Poland by Szymon Muszański

[secular-jew]