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After surviving exposure at birth, these unconventional academics realised they were destined to found the greatest Ancient Roman History podcast! 🏛📯⚔️

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✨Brand New Episode – Victory at Last! ✨

Rome is beset with difficulties, including wars, trials, and scandals. But by the end of the year, the plebeians will score an impressive victory in the Struggle of the Orders!!

#AncientRome #History #Podcast

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#ReliefWednesday

With all the building excitement for #Gladiator2, let’s look at a representation of gladiators from ancient Rome. Here we see a combat against a retiarius called Improbus!

🕰️C3rd CE
🏛Baths of Diocletian
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Our new book ‘Your Cheeky Guide to the Roman Empire’ has been getting a good spit and polish. We’ve been busy working with the editorial team at Ulysses Press to finalise all the gritty details about Rome from love in unexpected places to military outings that could have gone better!

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Definitely the power player in this mosaic scene!

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#MosaicMonday

Here a cat appears to be catching a bird while a lower panel shows ducks, birds, and fish seemingly unaware of the cat lurking so close by! Clearly these are two different registers.

📍 House of the Faun, Pompeii
📸 Carole Raddato
🏛 MAN Napoli
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Unexpected pleasures! Dr Rad and I live in the same city but not very close to each other so running into each other at a historical fair yesterday was quite the pleasant surprise. Somehow we ended up in a Roman tent 😅

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I wish I could comment but I’m blissfully ignorant about New York sewer alligators! Is there footage?

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Attic Greek terracotta oinochoe ~ C4th BCE This scene depicts the personification of procession Pompe standing between Dionysos and Eros. Dionysos is recognisable on account of his thyrsus and scene is likely to be the lead up to a sacrifice to him. 🏛The Met 🏺AncientBluesky

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We’re trying to work out Rex from an audiobook perspective. Would love to do it without benefit to Amazon!

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#FrescoFriday

It’s that time of the week to call up your lady pals and get to organising a Bacchic revel of some kind! Take inspiration from the Villa of Mysteries at Pompeii and you’ll definitely be on the right track for a memorable weekend 🍇

🏺AncientBluesky

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We didn’t talk about everyone in the book, but we definitely recommend the full book experience ☺️

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July 7 Brisbane (in person, UQ 2pm) Friends of Antiquity Sunday Series: Dr Kit Morrell, Friends of Antiquity Sunday Series: the reception of #Pompey's head (literally) alumni.uq.edu.au/event/sessio... Register $

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For #ReliefWednesday, from Sunday's visit to the Archaeological Museum of Delphi, a frieze from the theater depicting scenes from the labors of Hercules; the centaur Nessus, the Lernaean Hydra, and meeting Antaeus. Second century CE. (1/2)

🏺 AncientBlueSky #RomanArchaeology #Greece

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Sadly it looks like your guy might have had an encounter with Medusa before you… 😅

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#ReliefWednesday

The details of the lower panels of the Ara Pacis are spectacular. The scrolling patterns of the acanthus foliage first catch the eye, but animals are hidden within and the panels are framed by more floral scrollwork and an intricate meander pattern. Beautiful!

🏺 AncientBluesky

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😞 this is horrible. I’m sorry this is happening

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💔 Did people in Ancient Rome and Greece love the same way we do? Perhaps even more hopelessly - by Konstantine Panegyres (Melbourne) - The Conversation AU theconversation.com/did-people-i...

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Well, it’s tough but I guess we’ll just have go to the cinemas and then record an episode where Dr Rad brings her film analysis to the table!

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I’m often in awe of what people are capable of creating and maps and visualisations are definitely in that category

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A truly solid collection of maps here! I wasn’t across the numismatics ones and will delve in further. Thank you for sharing ☺️

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🤣🤣🤣 happy to be persuaded that snakes are the good folk here, but you have to concede they’re not coming across well in the examples you’ve just cited…

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#MosaicMonday

The monochromatic mosaic style was popular with great examples in Rome and Ostia. This example comes from the Villa della Pisanella in Boscoreale, near Pompeii. A stork and snake appear together against the plain white background but are they fated to conflict?

🏺AncientBluesky

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Ohhh thank you for sharing! This looks extremely interesting ☺️

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Maps are fabulous for coming to grips with ancient places and for aiding the visualisation. Rome’s evolution from dwellings on hills to a monumental city that was the centre of Mediterranean politics is aptly conveyed through maps. What maps of the ancient world do you love? 🏺AncientBluesky

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Throwback to Dr G’s summer in Rome in MMXXIII. Who knew Augustus was larger than life? Certainly makes the man seem even more intimidating than his ruthless politics. 🏛 Palazzo Massimo 🏺AncienyBluesky

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#FrescoFriday

The weekend is nearly here and that means (hopefully!) gathering together with loved ones and sharing a meal or a feast. Watch out for the hare though, they are already tucking into the delicious grapes 🍇

🏛MAN Napoli
📸 Carole Raddato
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What a lovely coin, thank you for sharing ☺️ Venus and Mars have a strong mythic bond through their connection with Aphrodite and Ares, perhaps there was some popularity of the story in the C1st BCE which accounts for the coin and the antefix

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Roman terracotta antefix ~ c. C1st BCE–C1st CE

This beautiful antefix puts a whole new spin on decorative roofing! Venus and Mars are paired together, and there’s a great deal of remaining paint pigment to enjoy. Glorious!

🏛The Met
#AncientRome
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#MosaicMonday

Cave canem! This mosaic from Pompeii appears to depict a guard dog. This combined with the apparent weapons on display offers clear warning to any who cross this doorstep!

📸 Wolfgang Reiger
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Gold wreath with a bee and cicadas ~ c. 350–300 BCE

The oak leaves of this wreath are formed from two gold branches joined by a bee. On each side are a number of acorns and a cicada. The effect is beautiful!

🏛 The BM
🏺ClassicsBluesky
#AncientHistory

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That dude thought the name was cool but it doesn’t look like the lady is buying it 🤣

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#FrescoFriday

Let’s hope the start of your weekend doesn’t end up like this! There’s nothing quite like a boring conversation at a party 😅

📍Villa of P. Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale
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#PhallusThursday

This tintinnabulum is striking not only because it is a winged phallus with a phallus, but take a look at those legs! It’s not often that human legs are given over to this style of art, but here we are!

🏺AncientBluesky

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#ReliefWednesday

The twins Romulus and Remus are depicted being nursed by the shewolf in the presence of the shepherd Fastulus and Acca Larentia. This piece is thought to date to the C2nd CE and is heavily restored.

🏛 Galleria Borghese
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We’re busy right now combing over the manuscript for ‘Your Cheeky Guide to the Roman Empire’ and that means checking our sources.

Good news is we have a paparazzo on our tail who caught us in the act.

Pre-orders are open 💋

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“The Bvlgari Hotel Roma … reflects the aesthetic sensitivity of the Age of Augustus.” That’s a bold claim! There better be frescos is all I can say 🙏

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An alternate history of archaic Rome in one corrigendum.

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