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The Temple of Isis at Pompeii ~ 1788

Francesco Piranesi etched this piece while Louis Jean Desprez brought the image to life with watercolours.

The ruins of Pompeii reach out through the ages.



🏛 The Cleveland Museum of Art

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2022-02-05

's two forthcoming edited volumes, Women in Historical & Archaeological Video Games, and Women in Classical Video Games. 2022 is going to be a great year for the academic study of women in video games!

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2021-10-14

"Just good friends..." 🙄

'Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus' by Gavin Hamilton, ca. 1760-1763



Image: National Gallery of Scotland (NG 2339). Link - https://t.co/hG5Hol8s7h

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2021-08-09

Friends, I just came upon this version of The Judgement of Paris by Mary Ellen Croteau (1997) for the first time and it has made my day. 🙌

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2021-02-04

For I wanna shout out an oldie but a goodie (that's still being produced!): Eric Shanower's Age of Bronze. A beautiful, thoughtful and comprehensive rendering of the & a great teaching tool!

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2019-09-26

The Age of Augustus, the Birth of Christ ~ Jean-Léon Gérôme c. 1852-4

Augustus Caesar sits before the Temple of Janus signalling the peace of the regime at the moment of the birth of Christ - the nativity shown in the foreground.

An allegorical moment of

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2019-01-08

The Rape of Proserpine ~ Simone Pignoni c.1650

Ancient myths are often violent. Their transposition into beautiful art serves to remind us to learn from these narratives to create a better world.




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2018-07-29