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Classicist, Archaeologist, Sci-fi / Horror nerd, (crucially) Ginger. Oh, and... "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn". #EdgyPedlar #AncientStuff

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

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

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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.

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

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– 29 April 🧵

“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,...

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– 17 March

“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?...

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- 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.

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- 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.

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8992)

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– 14 February 🧵

“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...

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- 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.

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

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Oval amethyst intaglio, perhaps ca. Early 1st Century AD, with a portrait of a woman framed by three stars: interpreted as a representation of Livia Augusta as a goddess.

Image: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (65.625). Link - https://t.co/KpOpgEwBAX

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Ok, so I did the AI art thing for my thesis too...

"Burning Bulls" indeed.

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