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Hold on to your hats because the first of November is with comic genius, ! Chatting and at 8pm on Wednesday 13th November. Join us!

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2019-10-17

As for grapes from we are inundated by them in their many forms and of course their effects...

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2019-10-17

TOMORROW! A feature-length audio revival of ‘Up Pompeii’. Two performances (2.30 / 5.30pm) at the Shaw Theatre, London, with an all-star cast. Tickets available -get them here - https://t.co/2HC7Qr5kzv

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2019-10-11

Pompeyo desembarcó en Egipto un 28 de septiembre del 48 a. C. Allí, en vez de ser recibido gratamente, fue asesinado por orden del faraón Ptolomeo XIII y acabó decapitado. Su cabeza fue entregada a César como regalo, a quien no le agradó ver la cabeza de su enemigo.

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2019-09-28

Poet’s corner: Frescos depicting scholarly young men crowned with wreaths. The word HOMER can be seen on the tag of one scroll and PLATO on another.

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2019-09-27

Fresco in the Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii . 
📷 by Bill Hocker

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2019-09-24

Mes chaussures préférées 4/4. J’aime beaucoup ce modèle contemporain, beaucoup moins connu que les précédents. Quand je les porte, je suis à l’aise dans mes pompe !

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2019-09-19

Year 4 pupils are reading & I am excited to be visiting today to share some Year 3 will be there, too! 😊 https://t.co/1eShPrgvBg

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2019-09-18

Missing us while we're on hiatus? We now have Patreon-Only minisodes. Wonder what Julius Caesar would have thought about the Battle of Winterfell? Or how Pompey cleared the Mediterranean of Pirates? Become a patron for just $2 a month and find out. https://t.co/fSZi2FlOFI

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2019-09-13

Wonderful news from of conservation of the painted plaster ceiling in House of the Painters at Work, Region V by University of Lausanne. So-called because the painters were interrupted by the AD79 eruption & left frescoes forever unfinished.
Images 1&2 via

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2019-09-11

4 birds from the Birds mosaics in Caesarea, Israel,:
peacock
partridge
Guinea hen
Damn long legged bird also found on a Pompeii fresco. This one drives me nuts, any one knows what it is ?

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2019-09-07

The Last Day of Pompeii
Karl Bryullov, 1833

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2019-09-06

Details of the dining room fresco from the palatial House of the Golden Bracelet at Pompeii. Painted to resemble a pavilion, the scene offers imaginative views of a luxuriant garden filled with birds; roundels mounted on columns are decorated with cupids.

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2019-09-03

Completed poster illustration for an audio revival of ‘Up Pompeii’ - a joy to draw the late, great Frankie Howerd! The entire thing drawn using on iPad, finished size A3

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2019-09-03

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

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2019-09-02

Roman fresco showing Europa riding the bull, Zeus in disguise, who looks knowingly at the viewer. Taking the form of a bull, Zeus abducted Europa, taking her to Crete where she became queen. Early 1st century AD, from the House of Jason, Pompeii

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2019-08-30

An extraodinary shop sign from the facade of a shop in Interpreted as a carpenter’s sign showing a dead Perdix on a bier at the feet of Daedalus; murdered for his ingenuity in inventing the saw. Also interpreted as an advert for a perfumery selling spices for funerals.

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2019-08-24

One of the earliest surviving images of surgery: the physician Japix removes an arrow from the thigh of Aeneas. A fresco painted in the 1st century AD, and discovered in the ruins of Pompeii in 1825. From the collections of in Naples.

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2019-08-20