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Michael Sheen is an absolute masterpiece 🔥
I wish Tumblr would let me post more gifs bc he has so much more range even than this, but alas, I had to pick 10 😭
Honestly though, how can one person absolutely rock so many different roles like he does? It's delicious
#michael sheen#good omens#aziraphale#bright young things#miles maitland#tron legacy#castor / zuse#underworld#lucian#the damned united#ancient rome#emperor nero#twilight#aro volturi#laws of attraction#thorne jamison
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Rome’s 'Lost' Imperial Palace 'Domus Tiberiana' Reopens
Until recently a crumbling and off-limits ruin near the famous Colosseum, the Domus Tiberiana palace — built in the first century AD and beloved by Nero — hopes to once again take its place as one of the city’s top tourist attractions.
The ancient palace sits on Palatine Hill — the city’s oldest hill, overhanging Rome —from where imperial dynasties ruled for centuries. But over the years, the site fell into disrepair and in the 1970s, the Domus Tiberiana site was shut due to the structural instability of some of the ruins. The closure left behind what many Romans described as a “black hole” in the capital’s archaeological heart.
Now, after a six-year makeover, the palace has reopened its doors as a “diffuse museum,” with findings and frescoes scattered across the site to provide visitors with an insight into the palace’s ancient grandeur.
And it was grand. The Domus Tiberiana was Rome’s first imperial palace, built by the emperor Tiberius who combined and incorporated the pre-existing noble mansions built on the hill. Occupying over four hectares, the palace featured residences alongside large gardens, places of worship and rooms for the emperor’s Praetorian guard.
As the seat of Rome’s power and politics, Domus Tiberiana held a prime location, high above the Palatine and Roman Forums, offering its occupants a “balcony view of the city.” Over time, the Domus was embellished and enlarged by other emperors including Nero, who was crowned on its steps aged just 16, in 54 AD.
Alfonsina Russo, director of the Colosseum’s archaeological park (in which Domus Tiberiana falls) and lead archaeologist on the renovation, said that ancient antiquities, many exceptionally well-preserved, were unearthed during the project.
The artifacts — bright stuccos, frescoes, amphorae, potteries, looms, terracotta, and divinity statues related to the cults of Isis, Dionysius and Mithras — offer visitors a trip through time, said Russo.
“They make this place — formerly (inhabited) by aristocratic families, then Roman emperors — feel alive again,” she said. “There are seven exhibition rooms full of extraordinary finds, starting with those preceding the original construction of the palace when aristocrats lived in mansions before Tiberius subsumed them into the Domus.”
Among the newly-exposed and frescoes are some of the earliest paintings of lemons (considered an exotic fruit in Ancient Rome, as they hailed from the Far East) and a depiction of a gladiator, proving that the era’s gladiatoral games were appreciated by rich families, explained Russo.
The imperial palace remained in use until the 7th century, when it became the papal residence of John VII. In the mid-16th century, the aristocratic Farnese family — who were powerful local landowners — built the lavish Orti Farnesiani gardens on the site, adorning it with ornaments and sculptures of nymphs, satyrs and fauns.
“This monument speaks of history,” Russo added. “We have restored (Domus Tiberiana) to its past splendor, but more work lies ahead.”
Indeed, painstaking efforts have been made to blend old and new. A series of majestic, reddish-brown vaulted arches that greet visitors having been carefully reconstructed with the same materials as ancient Romans used in the past.
“What makes this revamped Domus unique is the architectural style,” said Russo. “We managed to use original materials to reinforce and strengthen the handmade 15-meter (50ft) tall front arches (which run alongside the palace’s) ancient paving.”
It has certainly caught the public’s attention. Since reopening at the end of September, Domus Tiberiana has attracted some 400,000 visitors, a “huge success,” said Russo, adding that she believes that this incarnation of the Domus Tiberiana offers visitors the most “evocative” visit in generations.
Archaeologist and scholar of ancient Rome Giorgio Franchetti saidN that, in the reopening of the Domus Tiberiana complex, Rome has “recovered a lost jewel.”
“The Palatine Hill has always been the stage of Rome’s power politics,” he said in an interview. “Tiberius likely chose this spot to build the palace as it was where his family residence stood. There aren’t many places like the Domus Tiberiana where you can really breathe the past.”
By Silvia Marchetti.
#Rome’s 'Lost' Imperial Palace 'Domus Tiberiana' Reopens#Domus Tiberiana palace#Palatine Hill#Emperor Tiberius#Emperor Nero#ancient artifacts#archeology#archeolgst#history#history news#ancient history#ancient culture#ancient civilizations#ancient rome#roman history#roman empire#roman emperor#roman art
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He can rule over me any day 👑
#michael sheen#michaelsheenedit#emperor nero#nero#ancient rome: the rise and fall of an empire#welsh seduction machine#michaelsheendaily
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Emperor "Nero" - Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, S01E01
#icons#michael sheen#michael sheen icons#icons michael sheen#ancient rome#ancient history#archaeology#antiquity#roman history#roman empire#emperor nero#emperor nero icons#icon#twitter icons#random icons#icons without psd#site model icons
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Agrippina crowning her son Nero, Sebasteion, Aphrodisias, modern Turkey.
#nero#emperor nero#agrippina#agrippina the younger#agrippina minor#ancient rome#roman empire#roman history#ancient history#ancient culture#ancient art#julio claudian dynasty#antiquity
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felt inspired to make my own
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Beautiful Claudette Colbert in The Sign Of The Cross 1932 ⛲️
#old hollywood#beauty#romantic drama#1930s cinema#historical drama#claudette colbert#charles laughton#fredric march#elissa landi#roman empire#emperor nero#pre code hollywood#pre code cinema#cecil b demille
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Nero at Baiae by Jan Styka [ sparkledog edition ]
#nero draws#emperor nero#ancient rome#furry#sparklefur#sparkledog#weirdfur#if you ask what the fuck my thought process for this was. i had none#originally wanted to match the colors better to the painting but realised that is the opposite of what sparkledog art is
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Don't know if you've seen the LP by the popular recording artist Michael Jackson?
Horrible Histories (2009-2014), 3x07 | Ghosts (BBC), 4x06
#Horrible Histories#Rotten Romans#Ghosts#Ghosts BBC#BBC Ghosts#Commodus#Caligula#Emperor Caligula#Elagabalus#Nero#Emperor Nero#Julian Fawcett#Simon Farnaby#Ben Willbond#Mathew Baynton#Jim Howick#horriblehistoriesedit#ghostsedit#bbcghostsedit#Horrible Histories 3x07#Ghosts 4x06#my gifs#even more demonstrative than what they did to I Should Be So Lucky
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Nero as Antigone 🩸
#my art#dedicated to the three nero enthusiasts on tumblr you know who you are#this is an interpretation by the way‚ i don‘t know if he ever acted the particular play#emperor nero#lucius domitius ahenobarbus#nero claudius ceasar augustus germanicus#roman history#ancient greece#antigone#oh i will definitely draw antigone herself at some point#reference from adorkastock#ancient rome#sophocles
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Sometimes you just have draw Nero
#emperor nero#ancient rome#roman empire#roman history#idk how to tag this#based on coins from 55 and 67
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I just think that, as fans of Michael Sheen, many of us have been sleeping on his performance of the beautiful, insane, and unsettling Nero in the 2006 BBC miniseries, Ancient Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire.
He is a delight and a terror all in one. 11/10 fully recommend.
#michael sheen#bbc#good omens#Ancient Rome#good omens fandom#he’s just so pretty#Ancient Rome: Rise and Fall#of an empire#nero#roman emperor#antiquity#emperor nero
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Ruins of Roman Emperor Nero's 'Theatre' Unearthed in Rome
Archaeologists in Rome think they may have found Nero's theater during a hotel excavation.
Archaeologists in Rome think they may have found the ruins of Nero's theater, a first-century imperial performance space that was widely described in ancient Roman texts but whose whereabouts had remained largely elusive.
The theater is named after Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, who served as Roman emperor from A.D. 54 to his death in 68. Officials are calling the discovery of the theater, located just east of Vatican City, "exceptional." It was likely where Nero rehearsed poetry and put on musical performances, according to ABC News.
More than a millennium after his death, Nero remains one of ancient Rome's most infamous rulers, accused of playing his fiddle while the city burned to the ground during an epic fire. While much has been written about the atrocities and poor governance that occurred under his leadership — he allegedly killed his own mother and two wives and lavishly and indulgently spent Rome's money — he's also remembered as a lover of music and the arts, leading him to offer public performances at his theater, an act that the elite usually didn't partake in. He was particularly fond of playing the cithara, a portable harp-like instrument with seven strings.
But when the powerful Praetorian Guard, the force in charge of protecting the emperor, withdrew their support of him, he reportedly took his own life, uttering "what an artist dies in me!"
Researchers unearthed a variety of artifacts scattered among the building's ruins. These included seven ornate medieval glass chalices, segments of bone used to carve out rosary beads, clay pots and urns, cooking vessels for baking bread, coins, combs constructed out of bone and numerous pieces of musical instruments. As for the remaining architectural elements of the theater itself, archaeologists unearthed marble columns and plaster decorated in gold leaf, according to ABC News.
"It is a superb dig, one that every archaeologist dreams of," Marzia Di Mento, the site's chief archaeologist, told reporters during a news conference, according to ABC News. "Being able to dig in this built-up, historically rich area is so rare."
The discovery came about as construction crews were working on reconfiguring Palazzo Della Rovere, a medieval palace, into a new luxury hotel, and was found buried beneath the structure's walled garden, according to The Associated Press.
Artifacts from the excavation will be put on display and added to a "city-run public databank to add to the wealth of information gathered over the years on life in Rome throughout the centuries," according to ABC News.
Archaeologists plan to rebury the theater once excavations wrap up.
By Jennifer Nalewicki.
#Emperor Nero#Theatre of Nero#Ruins of Roman Emperor Nero's 'Theatre' Unearthed in Rome#ancient artifacts#archeology#archeolgst#history#history news#ancient history#ancient culture#ancient civilizations#ancient rome#roman history#roman empire#roman emperor#long reads
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emperor nero.mp4 and petronius the cuntiest bitch to have ever graced this earth
"[...] he described fully the prince's shameful excesses, with the names of his male and female companions and their novelties in debauchery, and sent the account under seal to Nero" (tacitus, annals xvi 19)
#i love p. and the satyricon but i mean what else could you expect from someone who's obsessed with the master and margarita#roman empire#my roman empire#petronius#petronius arbiter#emperor nero#ancient rome#my art#digital art#artists on tumblr#digital illustration#historical fanart
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Was Britannicus a bastard, changeling, fake child, or something more sinister? (dun dun dun) (according to Nero)
All my information is coming from "Suet. Ner. 7.1: Britannicum subditivum" by Michael B. Charles. Pls pls pls read that if you want to hear what I'm going to say except 5000000 times more educated and detailed. This is just a little summary of what he said.
In Suetonius Nero 7, it is said that Nero tried to convince Claudius that Britannicus was "subditivus," after Britannicus deadnamed him (ancient Rome was a wild place). If you search it up in a dictionary, subditivus means stuff like substituted, counterfeit, spurious, fake, and other things along those lines. But, in this context, what exactly is it supposed to mean? That Britannicus is a bastard? That Britannicus isn't a human? That Britannicus is an imposter?
Unfortunately, we don't really know the exact meaning! If you look at how subditivus was most commonly used in other texts, you would be inclined to think that Britannicus is fake, supposititious, an imposter (though still a person! Just, not the real real Britannicus. Not the Britannicus Claudius believes him to be. Swapped at birth or something) and this is the most common interpretation, at least in English translations of this passage.
If you look more at the context, you'd likely be thinking that Nero was questioning Britannicus' legitimacy, saying that Brit wasn't actually Claudius' son. Interestingly, we actually question that even today! I personally say that we'll never know, but there are people out there who have much stronger opinions on this than I do. The most concerning theory I've found is that Caligula was Britannicus father (!?).
All in all, no matter the exact meaning Suetonius wanted to convey here, the big idea was that Nero was trying to convince Claudius that Britannicus was not what Claudius thought he was. However, Nero did not mean that Britannicus wasn't a real child, or that Britannicus was a changeling in the exact way we Tumblrites think when we hear that word.
Again, I really recommend you read the actual article because he says it much better then I ever could, plus you can see all the juicy details and stuff.
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Two heads which show signs that they originally belonged to the portrait of Emperor Nero. After Nero's fall, they were recarved into Claudius, his predecessor, and Vespasian, his ultimate successor.
#ancient rome#roman empire#ancient art#ancient culture#ancient history#emperor claudius#emperor nero#emperor vespasian#julio claudian dynasty#These recarved heads always end up looking awkward and clunky
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