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'Pylos Combat Agate' - a stunningly beautiful engraved sealstone from the Late Helladic II grave of the so-called Griffin Warrior near the Palace of Nestor, Pylos. #BronzeAge (1/2)
Image: J. Vanderpool; Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati (via Stocker & Davis 2017)
#LatinForTheDay - 25 March
"Hoc verumst, tota te ferri, Cynthia, Roma,
et non ignota vivere nequitia?
haec merui sperare? dabis mihi, perfida, poenas;
et nobis aliquo, Cynthia, ventus erit....
#LatinForTheDay - 20 March - and a quick bit of #Ovid
"Quaere novum vatem, tenerorum mater Amorum!
raditur hic elegis ultima meta meis;
quos ego conposui, Paeligni ruris alumnus—
nec me deliciae dedecuere meae—
siquid id est, usque a proavis vetus ordinis heres,...
Ancient Coin of the Day: Sometimes you’ve just got to embrace the shiny – today’s thread begins with this glorious gold stater from Panticapaeum in the Tauric Chersonese, ca. 370-350 BC.
#ACOTD #Panticapaeum #Satyr
Image: ANS 1944.100.26248. Link – https://t.co/PSrTU1xxNB
#LatinForTheDay - 5 March
"Quae tibi cum pedibus ratio? quid carmina culpas?
scandere qui nescis, versiculos laceras?
"claudicat hic versus; haec" inquit “syllaba nutat”;
atque nihil prorsus stare putat podager."
Claudian, Shorter Poems 13 (LXXIX)
#MosaicMonday - a fantastic fun scene here, with musicians, dancing and some bum-wiggling to boot! This ca. 2nd Century AD scene was discovered in the garden of S. Sabina on the Aventine in 1711. #Roman
Image: Musei Vaticani (MV.902.0.0)
That the Pegasus came to be seen as something of a personal device for Mithridates VI is suggested by this pro-Pontic Athenian tetradrachm minted by Aristion and Philon in ca. 97-96 BC.
Image: ANS 1944.100.24839. Link - https://t.co/c0rAdMI8Jj
#LatinForTheDay - 18 February
"Callidus effracta nummos fur auferet arca,
prosternet patrios impia flamma lares:
debitor usuram pariter sortemque negabit,
non reddet sterilis semina iacta seges:...
A last #FrescoFriday for the morning, with this awesome panel of Dido from the House of Meleager, Pompeii (VI.9.2). Dido is seated on her throne, with an attendant personification of Africa, as Aeneas' ship departs. #Dido
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8898)