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#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

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. #Livia #Roman #Gem

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

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

"Burning Bulls" indeed.

#MosaicMonday - beginning with a Late 2nd Century mosaic scene: ca. AD 180-190, from Carthage. Typically interpreted as showing preparations for a banquet, with figures carrying dishes and tableware. #Roman #Art

Image: Louvre Collections (Ma 1796). Link - https://t.co/wChhLMjblc

#FrescoFriday - a rather fabulous panel from the large triclinium of the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale. I love the details of the shadows on the column. #Roman #Art

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (SN5). Link - https://t.co/ViArjVex6h

#LatinForTheDay – 26 November 🧵

“integra quaeramus rorantis prata per herbas
undamque occultis meditantem murmur in antris,
quam neque durato gustarint ore volucres,
ipse nec aetherio Phoebus libaverit igni.
nostra loquar, nulli vatum debebimus orsa,...

#LatinForTheDay – 5 November

“tempus erit, cum vos orbemque tuebitur idem,
et fient ipso sacra colente deo,
et penes Augustos patriae tutela manebit:
hanc fas imperii frena tenere domum.
inde nepos natusque dei, licet ipse recuset,...