#ancientbluesky #romanhistory This week's FREE article is called OOGABOOGA, and it has a monkey on the front. That's reason enough to read it, right? It's also about ancient people and myths, but it has a monkey on it, so that should do the trick, I reckon. Here you go - shorturl.at/mpAsG

#ancientbluesky #Romanhistory is full of important questions, well asked. Today I tackle one of the most pressing - What did a Roman bloke do if he got a boner in public? Hey! You don't get this stuff from other historians, do you!? Subscribe to read! - shorturl.at/HZibz

#Romanhistory #ancientbluesky When #JuliusCaesar went a little, well, bonkers towards the end, was it just a case of megalomania or were other forces at work? Read more, for free, here - shorturl.at/J4oro

#romanbritain #ancientbluesky Outside of the major cities, where were all the people in the Roman world? The maps look awfully empty, but were they? Subscribe to read - open.substack.com/pub/jamescov...

Where is Everybody?

Maps of the ancient world always look empty. Where was everybody? Was most of the ancient world an empty wilderness? How many people actually lived there?

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Gargoyles, Merlin and Nero, together at last! #romanhistory #ancientbluesky Read for free here - open.substack.com/pub/jamescov...

#Romans loved to dance as much as anyone else, as long as it was macho jumping about and bashing stuff and not that namby-pamby, sinewy, womanly sort of stuff people did nowadays. Nowadays being then, not now, of course. You can find out more here - shorturl.at/P0TiK

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Happy Birthday (yesterday, or maybe the day before) to #JuliusCaesar. But which one? The one the Romans knew? #Shakespeare's one? The one we know? Napoleon's one? Are they all the same person? Read more, for free, here - shorturl.at/wkAEE

Imagine a TV advert for the #Roman army - "Can you march 20 miles a day?" Me - "No." "Can you then build an entire camp before nightfall?" Me - "NO!" "Can you then fight off the enemy?" Me - "I already said NO!" But THEY could do all that - or could they? Find out - shorturl.at/Y3MM3

#ancientbluesky #history If #JuliusCaesar left every #Roman citizen money in his will, where in blazes did #Augustus get all the money to pay them from? Subscribe to find out! - shorturl.at/EozPQ

Did Caesar Leave Every Citizen Money in His Will?

Caesar’s will promised every Roman citizen 300 sesterces (about 75 denarii).

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#ancientbluesky #history #thebible We all know what #Jesus looks like, right? He looks like.. well.. like THAT. But why does he look like THAT and not, for example, like..umm.. THAT? Read this, for free, and I'll tell you! - shorturl.at/3UkQt

#Ancientbluesky #history #Pertinax was named after the quality of being stubborn, which was ironic given that he wasn't around for very long Find out how long, here - shorturl.at/7QoQ7

#ancientbluesky In today's vitally pressing #JuliusCaesar history news, we probe the important questions everyone is asking. Subscribe for breaking developments in this crucial story! shorturl.at/bszRf

Would Caesar Have Ever Eaten a Caesar Salad?

He didn't invent it, but would the ingredients in one have existed when Julius Caesar was alive? If not, what sort of salad might he have eaten?

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#ancientbluesky #history Well now, here's a question, right? Because men, for example, certainly seemed to be a lot quicker to say things like "I love you" to other men without any compunction. But were people in the past 'more gay'? Read for free here - shorturl.at/Uyq1X

Was Everyone in the Past More Gay?

From ancient Rome to Edwardian Britain, history suggests that people, partuclarly men, were far less reticent to express their love for each other.

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#ancientbluesky #romanhistory The final part of the #HistoriaAugusta biography of #Commodus and things do NOT get any less madder. Click here to find out just how mad they get - shorturl.at/toxKZ

#ancientbluesky #history #MacrusAurelius was one of the 'good' emperors, so why did his son #Commodus turn out to be such an absolute bastard? Was it because he was, well, a bastard? The #HistoriaAugusta thinks so! Subscribe to read more - shorturl.at/8fa8I

#ancientbluesky #romanhistory This year is the 250th birthday of something really cool! No, not #USA - Gibbon's Decline and Fall. So, in honour of that, let's have a look at what, if anything, the Roman Empire's, well, Roman Empire was... Read more for free! - shorturl.at/CxSV3

#ancientbluesky #history #classics You want mad emperors behaving appallingly!? I'll give it to you! How about this man bugger, #Commodus? Preview edition free to read here - shorturl.at/BD9UJ

A question for historians, what is/are your favourite book(s) of history and why? (This doesn't necessarily have to be a book in your immediate field of research; just something that comes closest to matching what you think a good work of history is or should be?) 🗃️

#ancientbluesky #history Those #Romans loved hacking a bloke to death - his sons, too. But sometimes they also chose to execute a man's daughters, too, and the question is, why? Subscribe to find out! - shorturl.at/qhtPq

#ancientbluesky #Romanhistory Last week we asked what would happen if a Roman man got a slave pregnant. The answer is, broadly, 'meh', because he's a man, right? But what if it was the other way round? You'll not be surprised to learn that the answer is not 'meh'. Read more - tinyurl.com/5yskezsb

#ancientbluesky #history On then to Book 6 of the #HistoriaAugusta, and we meet the short-lived rebellion of Avidius Cassius, who had an interesting, and very tall, way of killing people. Preview version here - shorturl.at/1FE6G

#romanhistory #ancientbluesky "Dad... I got a girl pregnant!" Dreaded words for any parent, but what about if the girl in question is one of the household slaves? Does that matter? What happens next? Subscribe to find out! - jamescoverley.substack.com/p/slavery-se...

Again, for #pridemonth is another one of those great questions about the #lgbtq part of #Roman history, and it concerns the Emperor #Elagabalus. Bit of a sensitive one, this... open.substack.com/pub/jamescov...

Was Elagabalus a Trans Woman?

Elagabalus was a child who was thrust into a role for which they were completely unsuited. But are the suggestions they were trans real or just slander?

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As it is #pridemonth time of year again, and I'm a #Roman historian, how about a little bit of #lgbtq Roman content? There's plenty of it, believe me! But here's a very interesting question to try and answer - Was Hadrian gay? open.substack.com/pub/jamescov...

Was Hadrian Gay?

We all think we know about Hadrian's sexuality, but can we say with confidence that he was a gay man?

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#ancientbluesky #theBible #romanhistory During the Sermon on the Mount, #Jesus warned against babbling like the Gentiles during prayer. But which Gentiles is he referring to, and what was this babbling? Does history give us examples? Find out here, for free! - shorturl.at/k5hJf

#ancientbluesky #romanhistory It's party time! And if you were Marcus Aurelius' brother, it was ALWAYS party time! Never a man to reach the end of the day still thirsty, it's Lucius Verus! Historia Augusta, Book V, Free preview with a full guide to the text here - shorturl.at/YEBh8

#Romans had loads of gods. There was Jupiter, and Mars, and that other bloke, and Minerva, and wassername, and him... but how many, exactly, were there? The answer is I don't know, but I can explain why if you subscribe! Read this! - shorturl.at/K1xgM

Our old friend #MarcusAurelius is back for the second part of his biography from the #HistoriaAugusta, this time giving the Germans a good bashing and some characteristic beard stroking. Read it now, with an exclusive guide to the text! - shorturl.at/rLQNB

The ruins of the imperial palace on the Palatine Hill are some of the most important in #Rome. So why aren't they as famous as, say, the #Colosseum? For more #Romanhistory like this, subscribe today! Read here - shorturl.at/TibYR