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#OnThisDay - 11 May - in AD 330 the 'Column of Constantine' is thought to have been dedicated, marking Constantinople's becoming the chief city of the empire. It was surmounted by a statue of Constantine himself (Ioan.Mal. XIII.320). (1/2)

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#OnThisDay - 11 May - in AD 37 an oath of allegiance was sworn to Gaius Caligula at Aritium in Lusitania (CIL 2.172). The Aritiensians would hold Gaius more dear "than themselves or their children". #Caligula 🏺 Image: RIC Gaius 5; BM (1844,0425.794). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

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ClassicsFest Newcastle 2025: Why Cicero Matters northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/hist...

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#ClassicsMemes

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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵 #LatinForTheDay – 11 May #Terence “enimvero, Dave, nil locist segnitiae neque socordiae, quantum intellexi modo senis sententiam de nuptiis. quae si non astu providentur, me aut erum pessum dabunt. nec quid agam certumst, Pamphilumne adiutem an auscultem seni....

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#OnThisDay - 11 May - in AD 330 the 'Column of Constantine' is thought to have been dedicated, marking Constantinople's becoming the chief city of the empire. It was surmounted by a statue of Constantine himself (Ioan.Mal. XIII.320). (1/2)

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#OnThisDay - 11 May - in AD 37 an oath of allegiance was sworn to Gaius Caligula at Aritium in Lusitania (CIL 2.172). The Aritiensians would hold Gaius more dear "than themselves or their children". #Caligula 🏺 Image: RIC Gaius 5; BM (1844,0425.794). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵 #LatinForTheDay – 10 May #Martial “si qua videbuntur chartis tibi, lector, in istis sive obscura nimis sive Latina parum, non meus est error: nocuit librarius illis dum properat versus annumerare tibi. quod si non illum sed me peccasse putabis,...

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#OnThisDay - 10 May - in AD 214 Emperor Claudius II was born. He reigned briefly, AD 268-270, adopting the soubriquet 'Gothicus' due to his successful campaigns against the Goths. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC V Claudius Gothicus 1; Münzkabinett Wien (RÖ37330). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

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ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵 #LatinForTheDay – 10 May #Martial “si qua videbuntur chartis tibi, lector, in istis sive obscura nimis sive Latina parum, non meus est error: nocuit librarius illis dum properat versus annumerare tibi. quod si non illum sed me peccasse putabis,...

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#OnThisDay - 10 May - in AD 214 Emperor Claudius II was born. He reigned briefly, AD 268-270, adopting the soubriquet 'Gothicus' due to his successful campaigns against the Goths. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC V Claudius Gothicus 1; Münzkabinett Wien (RÖ37330). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

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#FrescoFriday - A vibrant panel from the Tomb of the Dancers, Ruvo di Puglia, ca. 400-350 BC. The colours, movement, and individuality of the figures are particularly striking. #MagnaGrecia #Art 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9357). Link - mannapoli.it/magna-grecia...

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#FrescoFriday - While out hunting, Niobe's sons and daughters are slaughtered by Artemis and Apollo to punish her for her arrogance. From the apodyterium in the Casa del Marinaio, Pompeii (VII.15.2). #Pompeii #Myth 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (111479)

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#FrescoFriday - A deliciously enigmatic fresco, whose place of discovery is decidedly unclear (see ALT text)! It depicts the goddess Victory and a triumphant commander flanking a richly-adorned tropaion. #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8843)

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#OnThisDay - 9 May - in AD 480 the Western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos died. He had been forced into exile in AD 475, as a result of the revolt Orestes, his 'magister militum'. #AncientHistory 🏺 Link - RIC X Visigoths 3768; British Museum (2003,0713.3). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

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#OnThisDay - 9 May - the Ancient Romans celebrated the Lemuria, as Ovid Tells us (Fasti 5.421-422): "Ancient rites will be celebrated... They will bring offerings to the silent dead." Lemures were conceived of as the wandering spirits of the dead, often dangerous to the living. #DayOfTheDead 🏺

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Pink Floyd return to top of UK album charts with 1972 Pompeii concert recording

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#FrescoFriday; from the ekklesiasterion at the Temple of Isis in #Pompeii, a scene of Hermes arriving to lull to sleep the giant Argos Panoptes, who was enlisted by Hera to watch over Io. Now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli #Archaeology 🏺 #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky

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The beauty of the garden fresco from Livia’s villa at Prima Porta is sublime. With lush fruits ripe for the picking, flowers in bloom, and birds flitting between the delights, the fresco offers a kind of Augustan version of paradise. #FrescoFriday #AncientBluesky🏺

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#FrescoFriday - A vibrant panel from the Tomb of the Dancers, Ruvo di Puglia, ca. 400-350 BC. The colours, movement, and individuality of the figures are particularly striking. #MagnaGrecia #Art 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9357). Link - mannapoli.it/magna-grecia...

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#FrescoFriday - While out hunting, Niobe's sons and daughters are slaughtered by Artemis and Apollo to punish her for her arrogance. From the apodyterium in the Casa del Marinaio, Pompeii (VII.15.2). #Pompeii #Myth 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (111479)

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#FrescoFriday - A deliciously enigmatic fresco, whose place of discovery is decidedly unclear (see ALT text)! It depicts the goddess Victory and a triumphant commander flanking a richly-adorned tropaion. #Pompeii #Archaeology 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8843)

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#OnThisDay - 9 May - in AD 480 the Western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos died. He had been forced into exile in AD 475, as a result of the revolt Orestes, his 'magister militum'. #AncientHistory 🏺 Link - RIC X Visigoths 3768; British Museum (2003,0713.3). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

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#OnThisDay - 9 May - the Ancient Romans celebrated the Lemuria, as Ovid Tells us (Fasti 5.421-422): "Ancient rites will be celebrated... They will bring offerings to the silent dead." Lemures were conceived of as the wandering spirits of the dead, often dangerous to the living. #DayOfTheDead 🏺

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"What are you laughing at?" Red-Figure rhyton in the form of a braying donkey's head, ca. 480-470 BC. A decidedly sympotic vessel given the Bacchic associations of the donkey. #InternationalDonkeyDay Image: Art Institute of Chicago (1905.345). Link - artic.edu/artworks/408...

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"What are you laughing at?" Red-Figure rhyton in the form of a braying donkey's head, ca. 480-470 BC. A decidedly sympotic vessel given the Bacchic associations of the donkey. #InternationalDonkeyDay Image: Art Institute of Chicago (1905.345). Link - artic.edu/artworks/408...

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#ReliefWednesday - A superb polychrome relief showing two Emperors embracing. From Nicomedia: ca. Late 3rd Century AD. Perhaps representing an 'adventus' and a meeting of Diocletian and Maximian. #Art (1/2) Image: Çukurbağ Archaeological Project [TÜBİTAK 115K242], Kocaeli Museum

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#ReliefWednesday - A rather spectacular relief from a memorial arch showing the 'adventus' of Hadrian: ca. Mid-2nd Century AD. The emperor receives a symbolic globe from a helmeted personification of Rome. #Rome #AncientStuff 🏺 Image: Musei Capitolini, Rome (Inv. Scu. 810).

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#ReliefWednesday - A rather fabulous Roman clay oil lamp: ca. 2nd-3rd Century AD. The discus of the lamp is decorated with a scene of Odysseus presenting wine to the Cyclops, Polyphemus. #Myth #AncientArt 🏺 Image: Getty Collection (83. AQ.377.5). Link - getty.edu/art/collecti...

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#WyrdWednesday - Mandrake root was used to exorcise demons in the ancient world. Josephus (Jewish War 7.182-185) claims that mandrake had to be harvested by a dog on a chain, so that the root's scream as it was pulled out would not harm any humans. Image: British Library: Harley 1585 f. 57

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#ReliefWednesday - A superb polychrome relief showing two Emperors embracing. From Nicomedia: ca. Late 3rd Century AD. Perhaps representing an 'adventus' and a meeting of Diocletian and Maximian. #Art (1/2) Image: Çukurbağ Archaeological Project [TÜBİTAK 115K242], Kocaeli Museum

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