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#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

#MosaicMonday - Mythical emblemata on this rather fabulous ca. 2nd Century AD mosaic. The central panel shows Agavé killing Pentheus, a punishment for his refusal to acknowledge Dionysus' godhead. #Roman

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

#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,...

Painted plaque from an Etruscan tomb, ca. 470 BC, showing a female musician playing a lyre with a plectron. I enjoy the details in the depictions of the clothing. Provenance sadly limited. #Etruscan #Art

Image: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (62.362). Link - https://t.co/QGmbMp4J0g

#LatinForTheDay – 4 October

“certus es ire tamen miseramque relinquere Dido,
atque idem venti vela fidemque ferent?
certus es, Aenea, cum foedere solvere naves,
quaeque ubi sint nescis, Itala regna sequi?
nec nova Carthago, nec te crescentia tangunt...

#FrescoFriday - a fabulous fragment of Campanian tomb painting, ca. Late 4th Century BC. The larger female figure holds a dove and rosebud, with a pomegranate and cluster of grapes above. #Art

Image: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (H4 116/248). Link - https://t.co/mRww8sLRLW

#FrescoFriday - a fabulous panel from the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii (VI.17.42), showing Dionysus discovered the abandoned Ariadne on Naxos and being so bewitched by her that even Silenos seems surprised! #Roman #Art

Image: Parco Archeologico di Pompei (41658)

#LatinForTheday - 15 September

"regina, attonito quamquam pavor ore silentem
exanimet, mirata tamen paulumque reductis
passibus in solo stupuit duce. nec minus inter
ille tot ignoti socias gregis haeret in una
defixus sentitque ducem dominamque catervae....