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Mostly Ancient History & NatM Jedtavius stuff. | She/Her.
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No, no, I said sight your sources - the ancient Roman you kidnapped got loose and could be halfway down the block by now!
#frankly if all the ones I read about got loose it would cause havoc#they would on their own and also cause havoc to each other#ancient rome#ancient roman memes#not my creation
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I feel like we need to stop Twitter callouts and go back to publishing them in the newspaper like gentlemen.
(source: The Frederick Hornet, September 27, 1803.)
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Partial view of bathroom in House of Menander, Pompeii.
#I want to talk to the decorator#here in the bath we have men hunting eels#feels like a sextus pompey bathroom#i love the wave pattern 🌊#ancient rome#pompeii#archeology#archeaology
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i wanted to say i love love love your kingdom series!!! i’ve been having a crappy month and i found your fic and i’ve been obsessing and annoying my friends about it nonstop and dragging them down into your hell (affectionate) if you do make a fourth entry i think it would be amazing like all of your writing and i dearly wish hostia gets stomped on by another horse (is the horses job just to stomp on asshole minis now?) (kinda hope it is) i love your work have a great day!!!!
Okay, this is the sweetest message ever! Tysm!!
I am so glad that the stories helped with your crappy month. It means a lot that they mean something to other people. And I appreciate you telling friends about it!
I do have ideas for a fourth and have started writing a bit. Hostia hasn't had her last moment, after all.
Again, gratitude for you sending in such a lovely message. You have a wonderful day, too!
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The Horai were the goddesses of seasons and natural portions of time.
Chose to portray them as triplets this time. Of course, It would be fun to depict them as more "elemental", but I went with simple human designs for this. I plan to have them printed on my new thank-you cards soon. ✨
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"Claudius declined to unscramble the omelette" is perhaps my new favourite sentance ive ever read in an academic article and definitely the best possible way to describe a Roman emperor avoiding dealing with conflict
#that is actually a great sentence#i am going to use that now#ancient rome#classics#not my content#claudius
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The Octavianus Fragrance: for a price you can barely afford, you too can smell like sickness and desperation!
#eau du determined#determined to live and get power#but smells like asparagus and sickness and ambition#what a combo#octavianus#octavius#caesar augustus#not my content#ancient roman memes#classics memes
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well that was nice of him
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Carnelian stamp seal featuring a kitty, Minoan, 1900-1600 BC
from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
#i love the seal and it's true#one reason we have pottery fragments is thanks to cats xDDD#ancient history#ancient coins#archeaology#archeology#cats#not my content#ancient minoan#knossos
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i had a joke about orpheus and eurydice but looking back it wasn't a good idea
#......#so bad it's good#ancient greek myths#ancient greece#orpheus#eurydice#i cannot resist puns#bad puns
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A time traveller arrived in Sumeria.
“Am I talking to Ea-Nasir?” She asked.
“Yes,” he replied. “Would you like to by some of my finest grade-”
“I’m not here for that,” she interjected. “I’m here to tell you that I’m from the future. Four thousand years at least. Your whole civilisation is vague and hazy to us. We barely know your gods. We barely even know how to read your writing. Technology you would see as magical is ancient to us.”
Ea-Nasir instantly believed her. She was dressed in clothing so fine not even their best looms could make it, she had a bag on her back he couldn’t trace the material of, not to mention the fact that this was far beyond even a madman’s imagination.
“Why- Why are you telling me this?” He quavered.
“Because despite the lack of knowledge we have about your people, two names are still well known. The poet and priestess, Enheduanna, and you, the copper salesman.”
“Me?” He breathed. “Why? How?”
“A complaint and warning about your copper’s quality survived the sands of time. It had your name on it. It mentioned what you did. In my day, people say your name and joke about you. Not in hatred, but in a kind of respect and love. That is so much more than you could say about some of the highest kings you can think of. You, Ea-Nasir, went down in history.”
He was lost for words, but eventually something burst out.
“SOMEONE COMPLAINED ABOUT MY COPPER?”
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i want to share with you some of my favourite graffiti from Pompeii
“Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!“
“Amplicatus, I know that Icarus is buggering you. Salvius wrote this.“
“We two dear men, friends forever, were here. If you want to know our names, they are Gaius and Aulus.“
“Floronius, privileged soldier of the 7th legion, was here. The women did not know of his presence. Only six women came to know, too few for such a stallion.“
“On April 19th, I made bread.“
“ I have buggered men.“
“If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girlfriend.“
“It took 640 paces to walk back and forth between here and there ten times.“
“Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they every have before!“
“Epaphra is not good at ball games.”
“Two friends were here. While they were, they had bad service in every way from a guy named Epaphroditus. They threw him out and spent 105 and half sestertii most agreeably on whores.“
“Secundus likes to screw boys.“
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Roman mosaic floor, from the Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon.
#i want this floor but my broken body can't diy it and i sure can't afford anyone to do it#roman mosaic#ancient rome#ancient mosaics#ancient roman art
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roman cognomina were given through the beautiful ancient art of bullying
#i like how sometimes it could be a description of a person#and other times it could be bullying rhem about it#pulcher could mean the person was hot or possibly that they were ugly 😭#ancient rome#not my content
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Erastus Dow Palmer (1817-1904)
"Sappho" (c.1858)
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A silly comic: after natm 1 when they become much closer :3 and before natm 2 where oct takes off his helmet to save his lover- best friend .
#bmo you have lovely art#makes me what to print it out and roll on it like a cat on catnip#night at the museum#jedtavius#not my art#natm#natm jedtavius
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This rocks. Hater is the oldest profession
#sounds about right#ancient greece#ostracism#i mean it's a story from plutarch so who knows if it is true#but it feels true!#plutarch#aristides
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