Dr Cromさんのイラストまとめ

"Steady now... Steady..."

Fabulous Roman carnelian ring-stone, ca. 1st-3rd Century AD showing an artist, holding a brush and palette, seeming to paint a portrait bust... all rendered on a stone 1.2cm in length. #Roman #Gem

Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (81.6.48).

Do any of you have that one colleague who NEVER replies to emails?

Fayum Mummy portrait of a man wearing a beautiful gold wreath of ivy, ca. 2nd Century AD. These portraits really affect me. #Roman #Egypt

Image: Art Institute of Chicago (1922.4798). Link - https://t.co/c1gU43AC5s

#LatinForTheDay - 14 April

"Coacto vero in curiam senatu arduus rerum omnium modus, ne contumax silentium, ne suspecta libertas; et privato Othoni nuper atque eadem dicenti nota adulatio. Igitur versare sententias et huc atque illuc torquere...

#LatinForTheDay - 12 April

"Nam post conditam urbem octingentos et viginti prioris aevi annos multi auctores rettulerunt, dum res populi Romani memorabantur pari eloquentia ac libertate: postquam bellatum apud Actium atque omnem potentiam ad unum conferri pacis interfuit,..."

@underthenettle

I think it's fair to say that he understands the assignment.

#LatinForTheDay - 5 April

"hic erat affixis viridis spelunca lapillis,
pendebantque cavis tympana pumicibus,
orgia Musarum et Sileni patris imago
fictilis et calami, Pan Tegeaee, tui;
et Veneris dominae volucres, mea turba, columbae...

'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....