political necrophilia. is that anything

some kind of idea that's both an adaption of shakespeare's julius caesar AND a story about the actors in a community theater group and the stage they're acting on

artemio is actually dating antony's actor but they break up because artemio catches feelings for ariel, who's hooking up fwb style with jay. it's a whole mess, not including the way that the narrative of the play they are acting out is starting to gnaw on the lives of the actors. the how many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over, in states unborn and accents yet unknown of it all. or something

Day 18: Roman - Fulvia my beloved, wife of Mark Antony, stabber of Cicero’s head 😎

This is honestly my favorite one so far

Using my platform to try and get people to listen to a TERRIBLE musical about Caesar <3

YouTube cast recording playlist, some songs are inexplicably repeated. skip them

the radio version, starts with the end of another program but is in fact the right thing

i first listened to this in 2021. it is so bad. it is awful. i want to study it like a bug. and i want to see if i can get people who study Rome to listen to this.

“mark antony’s oration over the body of julius caesar” but for some reason cassius is wearing a super cool helmet

ooouuughhhh i want to get into opera

busts of pompey are so funny he looks like a substitute teacher with zero control over his class. he looks like he's being bullied by a 7th grader. a 12 year old boy is making fun of his shoes

19 + 28?

Thanks for the asks! ^^

19. Favourite historical book?

Definitely The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton, more on that here!

But to mention another one, I really like Carlo Ginzburg's The Night Battles. It's wonderfully weird and I really like the fact that the author clearly has a lot of empathy for the subjects which he's writing about (16th/17th century Venetian villagers accused of witchcraft. They rarely make sense but their heart seems to be in the right place. Usually.)

Also, not sure if it's a historical book per se or if it counts more as a philosophical one, but I've recently read the Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings of Émilie du Châtelet and it's really, really good. It includes a preface about the changing role of women throughout history (confirming, among other things, my long-held opinion that I was right to prefer Plato to Aristotle and my belief that I would have killed it in a medieval convent), her brief biography, some absolute gems of her letters and a lot of her writing!

28. Favourite “dream team” of specific era or the entire history?

Woah, that's a tough one! I love the triumvirates from Roman history (Caesar/Pompey/Crassus? Mark Antony/Octavian/Lepidus Fulvia? I mean hello?), but those were more of a nightmare team than a dream team to be completely fair.

So maybe I'll go with the Encyclopédistes. I have a soft spot for Diderot. Voltaire and Rousseau bring the drama (apparently, the section about Geneva was a sneaky roast of R? I approve wholeheartedly!) d'Alambert seems reasonable, but he's caught in the crossfire. Plus, Émilie should totally be seen as a part of the dream team, since they apparently used a her work and just didn't credit her.

lupercalia, babyyyy! and suddenly, mark antony appears—

this is a re draw of a comic I posted back in October! If I bothered to keep track of dates, I would’ve scheduled this post weeks in advance and for much earlier in the day like I do with the Ides of March lmao

Nicolaus, Life of Augustus 72, trans. Mark Toher

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Hello!

You can call me Licinia. Pronouns are she/her. I'm a lesbian from the US. West Coast to be more specific. I'm old enough to have a professional job with actual responsibilities. So this is my space to be a little weird sicko after hours :)

This blog is like 50% posts about the late roman republic and 50% my personal diary. I'm also interested in Greek mythology. And my favorite superhero is dc comics Billy Batson (Captain Marvel!)

One person was telling that Mark Antony was a madman and this person said that he had no intelligence. This cannot be any more further from the truth. After Caesar's death Antony did everything in his power to maintain peace. He even abolished the title of Dictator for life. He compromised with the conspirators for the common good of Rome even if he did not approve of their actions, until Octavian and Cicero messed everything up and made Antony's life very difficult. He was a educated noble man who knew the intrigues of Rome's highly volatile political. I don't understand why even in this day and age people like to pretend as if Antony was some sort of a Hitler. This is what happens when you don't study anything properly other than pop history and Hollywood drama shows.

I love you Roman guy writing "I was here" in the walls of his city, I love you 11th century birch bark manuscripts of peasants asking for a horse and also they forgot their shirts, I love you 13th century homework and drawing of a boy with his friends. I love you centuries old reminders that people are people. I love you 21st century graffiti that will become a reminder of our humanity to future generations.

anyway, torn between whether or not to focus on 'ITS IN OUR BLOOD,' or 'MAKE US WHOLE,' for a fic theme, but I'm sure if I think about it enough I can do both

when the senate meeting got the fall of the roman republic

does anyone happen to have a copy of "Lovers in Peace - Brutus and Cassius: A Re-Examination" by John Roland Dove and Peter Gamble?? scihub isn't throwing up anything and neither is 12ft.io T_T. would be much appreciated!!