If Nolan’s Odyssey isn’t for you then the 1911 Fall of Troy is on YouTube for free. This still shows Helen welcoming Paris the Menelaus’s court at Sparta.
Carausius
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Hello, classics graduate - I’m interested in classics, the middle ages, history in general and art. Also, rabbits. Finished the Aeneid, Heroides, Catullus, Georgics, Suetonius in Latin. Now on Silius Italicus’ Punica. “Sarcastic Brit” - the Guardian
On World Owl Appreciation Day, what better way to appreciate owls than to marvel at this ancient Greek warrior owl. He brandishes a long spear, a large hoplon shield and sports a magnificent crested helmet. So appreciate him. OR ELSE. 🕰️c390BC 🏛️📷Louvre
The day I’ve had at work, I could really do with a bearded, crested, three-headed beast of hell removing the people who have given me grief today. 📍 Tomb of the Infernal Chariot 🕰️ 3rd century BC, Etruscan 🏛️📷 Museum of Sarteano
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Ennius@enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 20h ago"King David was a sorrowful man: No cause for his sorrow had he; And he called for the music of a hundred harps, To ease his melancholy." Walter De la Mare BL Add MS 37768; the 'Lothar Psalter'; c.840 CE-855 CE; Germany (Aachen) or Northern France (Tours); f.5r @blmedieval.bsky.social
The day I’ve had at work, I could really do with a bearded, crested, three-headed beast of hell removing the people who have given me grief today. 📍 Tomb of the Infernal Chariot 🕰️ 3rd century BC, Etruscan 🏛️📷 Museum of Sarteano
This mosaic comes from the east church at Theodorias (modern Qasr in Libya 🇱🇾) & shows a fish sinuously swimming. Originally, the church had 50 mosaics on its floor. They have now been removed and placed in the nearby, purpose-built museum. 🕰️c540AD 📷 @jonalendering.bsky.social #MosaicMonday
This clay pithos (storage jar) may be a little primitive, but it presents a powerful scene. Perseus, in a broad-brimmed hat & winged boots, kills Medusa. He looks away so he won’t be turned to stone under Medusa’s glare. Medusa is - strangely - shown as a centaur. 🕰️c660BC 🏛️Louvre 📷Marie-Lan Nguyen
This mosaic comes from the east church at Theodorias (modern Qasr in Libya 🇱🇾) & shows a fish sinuously swimming. Originally, the church had 50 mosaics on its floor. They have now been removed and placed in the nearby, purpose-built museum. 🕰️c540AD 📷 @jonalendering.bsky.social #MosaicMonday
Out for a bike ride and I stumbled across a small fossil bank near Canberra airport. First uncovered in 1844, these brachiopods date to the Silurian age and are around 430 million years old. At the time of discovery, they were believed to be the oldest known fossils 📷 mine
This elaborate bronze helmet with its fantastical crest belonged to ‘North Bersted man.’ He lived in late Iron Age England though he was likely a Gaul. The helmet was buried with him. I also post a reconstruction & imagined drawing of this elite warrior 🏛️Novium Museum, Chichester 📷mine
This elaborate bronze helmet with its fantastical crest belonged to ‘North Bersted man.’ He lived in late Iron Age England though he was likely a Gaul. The helmet was buried with him. I also post a reconstruction & imagined drawing of this elite warrior 🏛️Novium Museum, Chichester 📷mine
Out for a bike ride and I stumbled across a small fossil bank near Canberra airport. First uncovered in 1844, these brachiopods date to the Silurian age and are around 430 million years old. At the time of discovery, they were believed to be the oldest known fossils 📷 mine
Italica’s Roman amphitheatre was built by Hadrian, who was born in Italica, ruled AD 117-138. 25K people watched regular gladiator fights, wild beast hunts, and presumably criminal executions. It was the Dragonpit, Kings Landing, S7-8, Game of Thrones. My 📷 #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #Rome
Amongst all the brouhaha over Nolan’s Odyssey, here’s a link to the first movie depicting the fall of Troy. It’s from 1911, it’s Italian, it’s only half an hour and IT’S FREE. I’ve just watched it and you might wish to do the same! It’s great.
"The Fall of Troy" (1911) - Full Movie
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I compiled the original latin text and 3 translations in Spanish, English and French of the "Res Gestae Divi Augusti", a sort of Autobiography of Augustus, first Roman emperor www.academia.edu/171058497/RE...
RES GESTAE DIVI AVGVSTI 4 languages.
Res Gestae Divi Augusti (the acts of the divine AUgustus) are the official autobiography of Augustus, the man who created the Roman Empire during his long reign from 31 BCE to 14 CE. The text tells us...
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Well, finally got to see TES THDPSSSSPS today and there were a lot less angry cats in it than the poster suggested.
Book 2, l.122-123: the 1st written mention of sunscreen when Phoebus applies it to Phaethon’s face? “tum pater ora sui sacro medicamine nati contigit et rapidae fecit patientia flammae” Then the father covered his son’s face with sacred ointment, allowing it to endure the swift fire [of the sun]
This Roman ring, wishing good life to Senicianus, was found in Silchester. It’s now on display in The Vyne. Its fame derives from the archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler consulting Tolkien on it in the ‘20s. Tolkien was inspired by the idea of a lost cursed ring & the rest is literary history. 🕰️C4thAD
Book 2, l.122-123: the 1st written mention of sunscreen when Phoebus applies it to Phaethon’s face? “tum pater ora sui sacro medicamine nati contigit et rapidae fecit patientia flammae” Then the father covered his son’s face with sacred ointment, allowing it to endure the swift fire [of the sun]
#FindsFriday This beautiful, jewelled disc brooch dates from the Anglo-Saxon period and was found in Kent. It is made from gilded silver, and features seven cut garnets. Disc-style brooches set with garnets, such as this one, were popular during the early Anglo #Saxon period, 6th century.
Leaf-bladed prehistoric flint arrowheads from Yorkshire. Now part of the collections at the Yorkshire Museum in York. 📸 My own. #FlintFriday #YorkshireMuseum
Socks and sandals; proof the Romans were at it long before Gen Z, especially in chilly North East Britannia. This little razor handle with herringbone pattern sock and ‘solea’ sandal was found in the River Tees near Darlington and now lives in Durham Archaeology Museum. #FindsFriday
This Roman ring, wishing good life to Senicianus, was found in Silchester. It’s now on display in The Vyne. Its fame derives from the archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler consulting Tolkien on it in the ‘20s. Tolkien was inspired by the idea of a lost cursed ring & the rest is literary history. 🕰️C4thAD
Just a quick reminder that over the course of 3 days exactly 87 years ago in 1939, the fragmentary remains of the Sutton Hoo helmet were discovered. Here’s my pic of the original and the almost equally famous Royal Armouries reconstruction.
The "Carvilio" ring..... A 2000-year-old Roman 'hologram' enclosed in a golden jewel of pristine condition. It probably depicts the young Carvilio Gemello, with wavy hair, intense gaze, fine lips, pronounced nose and bare chest.
Just a quick reminder that over the course of 3 days exactly 87 years ago in 1939, the fragmentary remains of the Sutton Hoo helmet were discovered. Here’s my pic of the original and the almost equally famous Royal Armouries reconstruction.
Want a book about the end of the southern British Iron Age, the Roman invasion and the greatest king of this island has ever had? If only such a thing existed...🤔 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/caratacus... @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social January 2027 #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺
This detail of an Athenian vase shows a war chariot advancing with infantry carrying huge figure-of-8 shields. By this time, both of these military technologies were long obsolete making me wonder whether this is a depiction of a Homeric (or other epic) battle scene 🕰️c730BC 🏛️BM 📷mine
The Arkadiko or Kazarma Bridge is a Mycenaean bridge near the modern road from Tiryns to Epidauros in the Peloponnese 🇬🇷. The stone crossing, which is dated to the Greek Bronze Age, is one of the oldest crossable arch bridges still in existence. It is the oldest preserved bridge in Europe. 📷mine
