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#FrescoFriday - I adore this fresco from the House of Marcus Lucretius, Pompeii (IX.3.5), depicting the drunken Hercules at the court of the Lydian Queen, Omphale. She herself sports Heracles' club and lion-skin. #Pompeii #Art

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8992)

#FrescoFriday - One of my favourite panels from Pompeii: the rather splendid fresco from the House of Jason (IX.5.18), showing the myth of Europa and the Bull. Those colours! #Mythology #Art

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (111475). Link - https://t.co/d7s3NqWrKD

'Sleeping Ariadne' - Originally thought to depict Cleopatra VII, this statue type represents the princess of Crete after Theseus abandoned her on Naxos: ca. 2nd Century AD, though extensively restored. #Art #Myth

Image: Uffizi Gallery (MAF 13728). Link - https://t.co/XvL2vHpmSt

#LatinForTheDay – 21 September #Ovid

“dumque ibi perluitur solita Titania lympha,
ecce nepos Cadmi dilata parte laborum
per nemus ignotum non certis passibus errans
pervenit in lucum: sic illum fata ferebant.
qui simul intravit rorantia fontibus antra,...

#LatinForTheDay – 12 September #Ovid

“quod mare non novit, quae nescit Ariona tellus?
carmine currentes ille tenebat aquas.
saepe sequens agnam lupus est a voce retentus,
saepe avidum fugiens restitit agna lupum;
saepe canes leporesque umbra iacuere sub una,...

A beautiful fragment of a Roman silver plate from the Traprain Treasure: ca. AD 410-425. The niello decoration, set within a gilt double-ring, shows 'Venus Anadyomene' - Venus rising from the sea. #Art

Image: National Museum of Scotland (X.GVA 44). Link - https://t.co/HdzWQEYuk1

@clitullus "I know the number of the sands and the measure of the sea;
I understand the speech of the dumb and hear the voiceless."

#LatinForTheDay – 16 August #Horace

“ergo obligatam redde Iovi dapem
longaque fessum militia latus
depone sub lauru mea, nec
parce cadis tibi destinatis.

oblivioso levia Massico
ciboria exple; funde capacibus...

#LatinForTheDay – 10 August #Ovid

“Talia dicentem nervosque ad verba moventem
exsangues flebant animae; nec Tantalus undam
captavit refugam, stupuitque Ixionis orbis,
nec carpsere iecur volucres, urnisque vacarunt
Belides, inque tuo sedisti, Sisyphe, saxo....

#FrescoFriday - A rather splendid fresco showing the myth of Europa and the Bull, from the House of Jason, Pompeii (IX.5.18). Yes, Zeus is up to more of his bullshit! #Mythology #Art

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (111475). Link - https://t.co/mJTmfEf969