Abigail Grahamさんのイラストまとめ

#FrescoFriday A vividly hopeful scene from the villa of Agrippa Posthumus @ Boscotrecase (1st c. BCE): a pale Andromeda embraces her fate: as a terrifying beast emerges from a dark blue sea, windswept Perseus arrive to save the day! 🧵

Images by Author. Met Museum 20.192.16.

I will be exploring theories for the mysterious Roman dodecahedron tonight (Monday) as part of a documentary "Strangest Things" on Sky History @ 9pm. I really enjoyed it & there is some fab CG w/ rotating imagery. https://t.co/Q9XgRLtBUq

#MosaicMonday Another cross-dressing Achilles on Skyros from an oecus @vrolmeda (Palencia, Spain). The naked fair-skinned hero is draped in women, torn between two fates: palace luxury & glorious warfare. A wily tanned Odysseus looks back almost winking. "Come on then".. 1/3

#FrescoFriday Why shouldn't you offend Dionysus? Pentheus, king of Thebes, banned women from participating in his rites. A drunken frenzy of women mistook him for a wild beast, his own mother tore off his head as a trophy. Ouch! Scene from a triclinium @House of Vettii (Pompeii).

#EpigraphyTuesday From the shadows of Rome's disastrous battle at Teutoburg Forest (9CE), a memorial in living colour to a #Roman centurion of the 18th legion Marcus Caelius, from Bononia, set up by Publius depicting him brother & his 2 freedmen (from the Xanten Museum) 1/4.