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#LatinForTheDay - 23 October

"...vertere pallor
tum parochi faciem nil sic metuentis ut acris
potores, vel quod maledicunt liberius vel
fervida quod subtile exsurdant vina palatum....

First up for #MoasicMonday, here's a roundel showing the birth of Mithras. Flanked by his two usual attendants, Cautes and Cautopates, Mithras emerges from a dark cave: ca. 1st Century AD (provenance back to ca. 1905), probably from Egypt. #Roman

Image: Walters Art Museum (43.7)

#LatinForTheDay - 17 October

"...Liberius si
dixero quid, si forte iocosius, hoc mihi iuris
cum venia dabis. insuevit pater optimus hoc me,
ut fugerem exemplis vitiorum quaeque notando....

It's that day of the week again, it's #PhallusThursday - so here's an ithyphallic Satyr from the sanctuary of Zeus at Dodona, ca. 540-530 BC. Sashay away!

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Athens (KAP 22)

Ooh, it's been a busy one so far, but here's a second #MosaicMonday offering, with the Leadenhall Street Mosaic, showing Bacchus riding side-saddle on a tigress: ca. 1st-2nd Century BC, but with 19th Century restoration. #Roman

Image: British Museum (OA.290)

I ADORE her!

A glorious amethyst with Artemis (Diana) dressed as befits the huntress goddess. She leans on a column, seemingly extinguishing a torch on a rock. Signed ΑΠΟΛΛΟΝΙΟΥ, suggesting an engraver active under Augustus. #Roman

Image: Naples Archaeological Museum (26070)

Ancient Coin of the Day: we've bit a bit Rome-heavy of late, so let's head to Greece today with this striking electrum hemidrachm from Thebes, perhaps ca. 350-340 BC. #ACOTD #Thebes

Image: ANS 1959.73.1

For #FrescoFriday it had to be this as I'm back in the classroom... the fresco of the Centaur Chiron educating the young Achilles, from the Basilica at Herculaneum. I would note that my beard is better than Chiron's.

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9109)

#LatinForTheDay - 29 July

"ipsa quoque interius cum duro lingua palato
congelat, et venae desistunt posse moveri;
nec flecti cervix nec bracchia reddere motus
nec pes ire potest; intra quoque viscera saxum est.
flet tamen..."

Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.306-310