#roman guard

[praetorianxxiv]

So continuing my new Rome theme. I give you the Imperial Standard (company Standard bearer)

He is responsible for carrying the Imperial Aquila into battle and inspiring the troops of his Legion to fight for the Emperor!

I'm quite happy with the way these troops are going.

Just need to think of a design for their faction.

For the Legion, for the Emperor =v=

[conniemcfalcon]

It should've been you bbg 💔

[ghosttb0y]

Prinxiety as ponies <3

They’re so sun and moon coded I needed to draw these two 😭😭 their names are Thunder Meadow and Royal Note! I might do the other sides later but I’m not sure yet…we’ll see! Feel free to draw these two designs as well if you want!

[illustratus]

The Emperor of Byzantium Basil II during the Georgian campaign, 1020 by Giuseppe Rava

[yer-a-legend]

I was watching Thomas Sanders vids this morning and what I found in the dorm fridge scared me:

"Crofters™ The only jelly I will put in my belly. " -Logan

[madcat-world]

Mom, Thanks - Roman Kupriianov

[gemsofgreece]

When the Varangians honoured the woman who killed her near-rapist

The Varangian Guard (Greek: Τάγμα τῶν Βαράγγων, Tághma tōn Varángōn) was an elite unit of the Byzantine Army from the tenth to the fourteenth century who served as personal bodyguards to the Byzantine emperors. The Varangian Guard was known for being primarily composed of recruits from northern Europe, including mainly Norsemen from Scandinavia but also Anglo-Saxons from England. The recruitment of distant foreigners from outside Byzantium to serve as the emperor's personal guard was pursued as a deliberate policy, as they lacked local political loyalties and could be counted upon to suppress revolts by disloyal Byzantine factions.

The Byzantines had mixed feelings about them, on one hand considering them barbarians and brutes with too much love for alcohol, on the other hand admitting their fierce loyalty to the emperor and their military prowress. They never fled a battle and they would fight to their death. They were also considered fair traders in their transactions between the Byzantine Empire and their northern homelands.

One incident which took place in 1034 helped soldify a positive image of the Varangians to the Byzantines' eyes, so much that the Byzantine Greek chronicler Ioannis Skylitzis, described it in his works as "αξιαφήγητον" (axiaphíyiton, worthy of mentioning / narrating).

According to Skylitzis, a group of Varangians were transferred in the Thracesian Theme (Greek: θέμα Θρᾳκησίων, thema Thrakēsiōn), a military division that at the time encompassed west Asia Minor (not Thrace). One of them once encountered a local woman in an uncrowded place. The man approached the woman suggestively but she rejected his advances. The man attempted to rape her and she seized his sword and killed him. His death was instant as she pierced him through his heart.

Art in Skylitzis' manuscript where the woman is erroneously depicted to kill the man with a spear instead of a sword.

Once the incident became known in the area, the Varangians made a gathering in which they agreed to honour the woman for killing their companion. They offered her all the valuable belongings of the killed Varangian, whom they left unburied. According to Varangian law, the rapists of married women were punished with execution, therefore the Varangians reasoned that the woman simply implemented the law by killing their companion.

The manuscripts of Skylitzis are kept in the National Library of Madrid.

Sources:

ΜΗΧΑΝΗ ΤΟΥ ΧΡΟΝΟΥ

www.in.gr

[tweedfrog]

This is in response to a big twitter debate over whether Jesus was blonde and looked white and this may be the funniest thing I've ever read with my own two eyes imagine if this happened and instead of "the kiss of judas" as a shorthand for betrayal we had the caucasian accusation of Judas

[heyaritou]

"I'm so relieved…"

[roman-roy-apologist]

saltburn would have been good if mencken was ollie and roman was felix do u see my vision ugh

[loganslowdown4]

Close enough

Welcome back Rom & Dom

😂😂😂😂😂

[praetorianxxiv]

I'm quite surprised I haven't posted this yet.

My first officer for my Rome theme Imperial guard =v=

Only got 3 done so far, but New Year new motivation lol 🤞

I have what could be considered an army of these guys to make.

SPQR =v=

[shattered-stars-lonely-hearts]

Jedediah: (Accidently closes kitchen cabinet door a bit too roughly) *muffled sound of glasses crashing*

Jedediah:

Octavius:

Jedediah: ...ya hear that sound, pardner?

Octavius: Yes?

Jedediah: That's the sound of someone else's problem

*Three hours later*

Jedediah: *Opens kitchen cabinet door having forgotten about earlier*

Jedediah: Oh sHI-

[toasts-httyd-hyperfixation]

Nothing to say, i just love this picture

[illustratus]

Saint Longinus - St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City

by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

[audreyscribes]

What would happen if a child of Juno and a child of Mars fell in love? (The royalty x knight/guard trope really does it for me, okay.)

Oh man, I like the Royalty X Knight trope too. The loyalty. The Dedication. The dependency. The knight/guard protecting and serving their Royal, letting them be vulnerable and continue to be strong as their Royal serves their people and land; and the Royal giving the Knight/Guard a purpose and to serve in how they can, allowing them a privilege to see their vulnerability with full trust that their guard/knight will not abuse their weakness in an already volatile environment.

Which is pretty much how i would describing a child of Juno and a child of Mars. There is always a sense of Romanticism with this so its easy to think how if they fell in love. It just carries onto something more where the Knight/Guard (Child of Mars) realizes they're not serving their Royal because of their position anymore because they legitimately want to protect and help their Royal in however they can because it's them; the Royal (Child of Juno) realizing they like having their Knight/Guard with them not because they protect them, because the child of Mars cares about them, and not the Crown and the child of Juno genuinely likes them having by their side because their knight and protector cares.