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#MosaicMonday - A fabulous ca. 2nd Century mythological floor from Roman Nîmes. The central panel shows Agavé killing Pentheus, punishment for his refusal to acknowledge the god Dionysus. #Roman #Art

Image: Musée de la Romanité, Nîmes (2007.1.1.0). Link - https://t.co/Ac4B8t46Fx

#LatinForTheDay – 25 May #Martial

“hic ubi sidereus propius videt astra colossus
et crescunt media pegmata celsa via,
invidiosa feri radiabant atria regis
unaque iam tota stabat in urbe domus.
hic ubi conspicui venerabilis Amphitheatri...

#FrescoFriday - Starting the day with this gorgeous panel from Magna Graecia, more precisely a Messapian tomb painting from Gnathia (modern Egnazia): ca. 300-250 BC. #Ancient #Art

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9361). Link - https://t.co/AA484fdyHt

Fragmentary statue of Mercury from the Berthouville Hoard, ca. 2nd Century AD. Clad in a short chlamys and winged petasus, he holds a purse in his right hand. #Roman #MythologyMonday

Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (inv.56.2). Link - https://t.co/hYc8YonHbR

#LatinForTheDay – 29 April #Ovid 🧵

“uror, ut inducto ceratae sulpure taedae,
ut pia fumosis addita tura focis.
Aeneas oculis semper vigilantis inhaeret;
Aenean animo noxque quiesque refert.
ille quidem male gratus et ad mea munera surdus,...

#LatinForTheDay – 17 March #Ovid

“Dicebam “medicare tuos desiste capillos!”
tingere quam possis, iam tibi nulla coma est.
at si passa fores, quid erat spatiosius illis?
contigerant imum, qua patet usque, latus.
quid, quod erant tenues, et quos ornare timeres?...

#FrescoFriday - High art meets high emotion with this panel of the torture of Ixion from the east wall of the exedra of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii (VI.15.1).

Ixion on his wheel is marginalised, focussing our attention on the reaction of Juno and Mercury. #Roman #Art #Myth

#FrescoFriday - The fabulous panel from the House of Marcus Lucretius, Pompeii (IX.3.5), showing the drunken Heracles at Omphale's court. The Queen stands on the right, sporting Heracles' club and lion-skin. #Roman #Art

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8992)

#LatinForTheDay – 14 February #Tibullus 🧵

“te spectem, suprema mihi cum venerit hora;
te teneam moriens deficiente manu.
flebis et arsuro positum me, Delia, lecto,
tristibus et lacrimis oscula mixta dabis.
flebis: non tua sunt duro praecordia ferro...

#FrescoFriday - a Satyr and Maenad panel from the tablinum of the House of L. Caecilius Iucundus, Pompeii (V.1.26). They are described as 'embracing'... Riiiigggghhhht. #Roman #Art

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (110590). Link - https://t.co/q5xImwtL62