"You crazy-assed cosmonaut/remember your virtue/Redemption lies plainly in truth" | "Loathe the way they light candles in Rome/But love the sweet air of the votives"

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Nothing gets me as excited as studying ancient history it'sso interesting!!! Especially Ancient Egypt and Rome~☆
Seems like I'm gonna be having late night zoomies again!! xP

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Marble Hand of Colossus of Constantine. Capitoline Museums in Rome, Italy. Photograph: Vogue Magazine, June 1956.

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Counting down my empires of




(1) ROMAN EMPIRE (509 BC - 1453 AD)

THE Empire

Pax Romana

"The grandeur that was Rome" - enduring both as empire, and in its influence or legacy

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I watched the first couple episodes of Thermae Romae Novae and it is fantastic. It’s really fun to watch and is actually a pretty great depiction of what living in Ancient Rome was like during the Pax Romana. I’m a real sucker for this style of fish out of water humor lol

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The Life of St. Ignatius Loyola. Plate 6. The vision at La Storta (outside Rome) I will be favourable to you in Rome.

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The sailors of ancient Rome used to say that the sea’s beautiful sea glass, nature’s oceanic jewels, were born of mermaids’ tears after they had wept from Neptune’s latest, jealous wrath. A sad origin myth embroidered with beauty…#MythologyMonday
(🎨 Pyle, & uncredited)

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Historic Spot of Rome by Takeuchi Seiho, 1903

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Ancient Rome was a confusing time for husbands.

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So pretty AAAAA!!!!
Thank you!! どうもありがとう!🤠
🎨@/MEN_rome

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„Rome wasn’t built in a day“

It took time til’ everybody knew about the beauty of the city! I see a lot of similarities with the brand and project of the ! Once the world realizes, project will moon!🚀
Team was and is always delivering!

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Santo Niño de Cebú (Philippines)
Christ Child as the Good Shepherd (India)
Baby Jesus (USA)
Santo Bambino Aracoeli Rome (Italy) https://t.co/eoir2opbhn

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“Aurora,” ceiling fresco by Guido Reni, 1613-14. In the Casino Rospigliosi, Rome.

SCALA/Art Resource, New York: via Britannica

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1819 Shelley writes from Rome of the "labyrinthine recesses" of the Baths of Caracalla, "hidden & woven over by the wild growth of weeds & ivy. Never was any desolation more sublime"

Here's Severn's posthumous portrait of Shelley in the Caracalla, now at

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Vandals in Rome, 455 AD.

A 19th-century illustration by Heinrich Leutemann.

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Take a look at 🙂

The previous Empire was Rome

Vikings now on sale

https://t.co/SQGJ25Az9V

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The World, Jerusalem, Babylon, and Rome

BL Add 37049; The Carthusian Miscellany; 15th century; England, N.; ff.2v, 3r, 9v
https://t.co/y4H1B08oag

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Des Heures provenant de l'ancienne bibliothèque Phillips (n° 4798). Devise : et non sans cause .
heures à l'usage de Rome, v. 1490/1500 avec 16 grandes miniatures et 15 petites miniatures du Maître de Guillaume Lambert (actif 1475- https://t.co/Y7UzGF9XjY via

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