Symmachus 📜🏺さんのイラストまとめ

(3/7) Daughter of Perses and Asteria, by the 4th century BCE she had become known as a protector of the 'oikos', or home, and had developed cult followings in both Thessaly and Asia Minor. Her mythos thus developed, and she became known as the mother of #Circe, #Medea and Scylla!

#OnThisDay in 538 CE the Ostrogoth siege of Rome, led by King Vitiges, ends in failure.

Repelled by the tactical prowess of the Roman general Belisarius, Vitiges fled north to Ravenna to regroup.

#Classics #Rome #Byzantium #War

#OnThisDay in 375 BCE the temple of Juno Lucina was dedicated on the Esquiline Hill. This temple was in use until at least the imperial period.

Prior to the temple's construction, worship took place in a sacred grove on the site.

#Classics #Juno #Temples

#OnThisDay the Roman calendar marked the Matronalia, a festival celebrating motherhood and the goddess Juno Lucina (“Juno who brings children into the light”), the goddess of childbirth.

During the festival, women received gifts and prayers from their husbands. #Classics #Juno

#OnThisDay the Roman calendar marked the religious festival of the Feriae of Mars.

During this festival, the Salii, or the “leaping priests” of Mars, donned archaic military uniforms and carried the 12 sacred shields of Mars in a religious procession. #Classics #Mars #Romans

Deity of the Week - Hypnos 😴🛌

(1/4) Get cosy in your bed and prepare to drift off, as this week we look at the Ancient Greek personification of sleep: Hypnos! Son of Nyx ('the night') and Erebus ('the darkness'), he dwelt deep in a cave in Hades. #Classics #Sleep #Gods #Hades

(3/11) Within Roman society, Mars was seen as a father of the Roman people and a guardian deity that protected the state. He was inseparable from Roman concepts of virility ('vis') and virtue ('virtus'), and as such was a favourite patron deity of Roman soldiers.

#AncientAuthoroftheWeek 📚 - Propertius.

(1/4) Today we're considering one of the best well known Latin elegists, Propertius!

Propertius lived between c. 50-15BCE and was potentially a friend of the poets Vergil and Gallus. With them, he shared the poetic patron Maecenas.

(4/8) The Pantheon is a remarkable feet of engineering. It's most significant feature is the freestanding concrete tufa dome, which for 1,300 years was the largest in the world. To this day, its dome remains the largest unsupported concrete dome in the world.

This #FrescoFriday we present this incredible work from the Tomb of the Dancers!

Found in a Peucetian tomb in Ruvo di Puglia, Italy, it dates to the 5th - 4th century BCE. Discovered in 1833, the tomb held the remains of a distinguished warrior. #Classics

Now held by @MANNapoli