Roman Portable Shrine, Chedworth Roman Villa, Gloucestershire
One of several small altars believed to be deliberately portable, and so able to travel with individuals or families, The god is believed to represent Mars Lenus, a deity who was a Roman and Celtic amalgamation. The recessed dots would have been filled with colour, marking out the eyes, nipples, navel and genitalia.
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Timeline of acanthus styles: a) Greek; b) Roman; c) Byzantine; d) Romanesque; e & f) Gothic; g) Renaissance; h & i) Baroque; j & k) Rococo
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Snake man I love you blahhhhhhhhh snAke 🐍
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There was a strange thing about Cei: nine nights and nine days
could he hold his breath under water; nine nights and nine days could he go without sleep. No doctor could heal a wound from Cei’s sword. Cei couldn’t be beaten. He could be as tall as the tallest tree in the forest when he wanted. There was another strange thing about him: when the rain was heaviest, a hand’s breadth in front of his hand and a hand’s breadth behind would be as dry as what was in his hand itself, so great was his body-heat; and when the cold was heaviest on his companions, he would be their kindling to light a fire.
Culhwch and Olwen, trans. Craig Davis
guess who finally got to read Linda Gowans' Cei and the Arthurian Legend! new thoughts have been unlocked, ideas are coming together! I also got my hands on some scans from medieval armor reference books, which is also essential to the ideas
the 'unless god etc' quote is from Pa Gur/What Man Guards The Gate
When he drank from a horn,
he would drink for four;
when he came into battle,
he would kill like a hundred.
Unless God himself should perform it,
Cei could not be killed.
(trans. Craig Davis)
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Moreover, Caesar was not satisfied to be overlooked at first by Sulla, who was busy with a multitude of proscriptions, but he came before the people as candidate for the priesthood, although he was not yet much more than a stripling. To this candidacy Sulla secretly opposed himself, and took measures to make Caesar fail in it, and when he was deliberating about putting him to death and some said there was no reason for killing a mere boy like him
Plutarch, Caesar
sulla's fight with caesar is extremely funny, but also very Something considering how much of sulla you see reflected in caesar's later actions. breaking news: grown man picks fight with teenager, more at 11.
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Hi! I don't usually talk much on here, but I wanted to share this! For the past three or four years I've been working on these graphic novels called The Roman Stars with writer Ivan Brandon!
What is The Roman Stars? It's a grand space opera about the life of Julius Caesar! And we are currently LIVE on Kickstarter
So if you like graphic novels, space epics, and/or Roman History, I would greatly appreciate it if you all would check our book out!
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Prinxiety as ponies <3
They’re so sun and moon coded I needed to draw these two 😭😭 their names are Thunder Meadow and Royal Note! I might do the other sides later but I’m not sure yet…we’ll see! Feel free to draw these two designs as well if you want!
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I wasn't going to post those cause theyre just redesigns of some old drawing but I really liked it especially Remus so...
Fem!Creativitytwins
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"My heart is beating,
It keeps repeating for you constantly.
You're all I'm needing
And so I'm pleading,
Please come back to me."
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