⚡️Cheeky Preview ⚡️ Our forthcoming book comes with bonus online content, so you can enjoy a little taste of ‘Your Cheeky Guide to the Roman Empire’ before it hits the shelves! partialhistorians.com/2024/08/29/a-c…

Publication day! I assembled my favorite Greco-Roman stories about women in power (Amazons, Dido, Boudicca, Cleopatra and many more), in both new and existing translations. You can find it (and see the TOC) here: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667325/w…

On my recent visit to the #BritishMuseum, I ran across the pilaster capital below … one of six in the museum that used to decorate the interior of the #Pantheon in Rome. What?? How did it come to be in London? 1/ 117-125 CE 📸 me

#ReliefWednesday The Prima Porta Augustus is teeming with symbolism on the highly decorated cuirass. Gods, such as Venus (a nod to Julius Caesar’s divine ancestry) and military conquests like the Parthian returning the lost standard are all part of the publicity here!

#ReliefWednesday The fragment of the funerary stele of Olympiodoros (101-200 AD) is back from the Gallo-Romeins Museum in Tongeren (Belgium) where it was on display for the exhibition Gods in color - Polychromy in Antiquity. On the tympanum there are the tools of a marmorarius.

For #ReliefWednesday, one of the reliefs from the Arch of Portugal. The scene is the Apotheosis (deification) of Sabina, Hadrian’s wife, whose body is burning on the funeral pyre, her spirit soaring on the back of Aeternitas (Eternity). 1/ 2nd c. CE, Musei Capitolini 📸 me

#ReliefWednesday - The so-called 'Seal of Nero' - a carnelian intaglio, showing the aftermath of the musical contest between Apollo and Marsyas; attributed to Dioskourides: ca. 30 BC-AD14. #Art Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (26051). Link - mann-napoli.it/gemme-farnese/…

Play your own kind of music. This #ReliefWednesday we're back in the granducal collections of #Florence to examine a #cameo showing a summer concert of #Erotes, with a naked lady who has everything and more - in fact, this is a #PhallusThursday piece too! LJ Trafford

Spruce your #PhallusThursday up with this delightful cup. With joyful phallic critters cavorting around the vessel, who can help but smile ☺️

#PhallusThursday strikes again!

Taking my friends round vindolanda today ft. Pantheon (Caroline Lawrence’s book I illustrated), which is now out in the UK!!!

#LatinForTheDay – 12 September #Ovid 🧵 “fallat, et in tenues evanidus exeat auras, perque gradus molles emoriatur amor. sed modo dilectam scelus est odisse puellam: exitus ingeniis convenit iste feris. non curare sat est: odio qui finit amorem,...

Our latest review on Rhea! Trevor Jordan Davis reviews Dylan M. Burns, "Did God Care? Providence, Dualism, and Will in Later Greek and Early Christian Philosophy" (De Gruyter Brill 2020). Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue after the review. rheaclassicalreviews.com/2024/09/12/dav…

#FrescoFriday is here which means it’s time to celebrate JUST how close the weekend is! May your dance floor be delightfully free of swans. 📍Pompeii

#FrescoFriday, from the relatively recently excavated House of Leda and the Swan at #Pompeii, a depiction of the myth that gives the house its name. #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #Italy

In the early 60s, a small villa was excavated in Stabia, the Villa Carmiano. Its triclinium was painted with unique frescoes, including this one below which may depict Ceres and Bacchus. But perhaps instead Thetis and Achilles? #FrescoFriday Archaeological Museum of Stabia 📸 me

For #FrescoFriday we return to the collection of #EvanGorga in #palazzoAltemps, where a fourth-style wall in #fresco and #stucco hints at the mastery of #Augustan decorative arts in #Rome. Tantalisingly incomplete, we can only guess at its significance.

Tonight we’re catching the play ‘Augusta’ as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival. Following the life of Honoria, we’re expecting some exciting moments of scandal ancient Rome style! #AncientRome #ClassicalReception