First stop - the Naples National Archaeological Museum.

I knew what to expect - mostly - but there’s nothing to quite prepare you for staring down the level of artistry in the two millennia-old frescoes, mostly salvaged from houses in Pompeii and housed here 🧵

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I could see dying like this if they were at Pompeii

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Agamemnon and Achilles face off in this scene which captures the friction between the two described by Homer early in the Iliad.

Agamemnon sits while Achilles pulls his sword from its scabbard. The goddess Athena holds Achilles by the hair.

📍 Pompeii

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Ancient Greek word of the day:

μοιρα, -ας f. (moira) = destiny

Roman fresco of Dido abandoned by Aeneas, 1st c. AD, from the House of Meleager, Pompeii.

Naples National Archaeological Museum.

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daily map JAYE MVP!! lava kebab. I didn't forget u could just let pompeii pass help

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- Discovered 12 October 1829 in the atrium of the House of Meleager, Pompeii (VI.9.2). A grief-stricken Dido, alongside the personification of Africa in elephant headdress, weeps as Aeneas departs.

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (8898)

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本日のMVP。Pompeiiを刺し身にしてくれたジェイくんと高台物理火力になってくれたビーンストークちゃんです!! ピーちゃんたちもありがとう!

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A Roman fresco from a fullonica - a dyer's shop in Pompeii. One man is brushing wool. The man under the cage is fabric whitening. The owl on the cage represents Athena who was a protector of the lanaiuoli - companies of wool merchants. 🦉

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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day /

A fresco from the ancient city of Stabiae, only 4.5 km Southwest of Pompeii, shows the Sun God in the nude with his radiant aureola, wearing nothing but a green cloak around his shoulders.

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Scientific drawing of Pikachu in the style of James Audubon

Pikachu, ancient graffiti in the Roman ruins of Pompeii. Mount Vesuvius looms in the distance. Photo

Pikachu, collodion photograph

Pikachu, Hanna-Barbera cartoon

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Whats a song you used to dislike but now its one of your favorites?
Mine is Pompeii by Bastille. When it came out I thought it's just a generic hyped up song, but now I LOVE it~🌸

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🪔 For a Nightingale from the House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii. The nightingale is a migratory bird 🐦, residing mostly in woods. It was rarely painted on frescoes because it was not colorful. It is likely to have been kept as a caged bird for its 🎶 songs.

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Sea Creatures Mosaic; 1st Century BC - 1st Century CE.

Originally it was in the of the Faun in Pompeii. Now preserved in National Archaeological Museum, Naples 🇮🇹

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Detail of a mural in a Pompeii house, reconstructed in the National Archeological Museum at Naples.

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Part of a wall-#painting from the Villa of the Papyri. Four ducks have been hung above two antelope. The antelopes are still alive, and their hooves have been tied. Hunting is a common them in the wall-paintings of and

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Winged victory. Ancient Roman frescos from Pompeii in the 4th Pompeian style, Italy, 64 BC.

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listen, juniper has been my fursona since high school and is very near and dear to me but pompeii has a certain........je ne sais quoi

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