The arch of Titus stands on the Via Sacra which leads from the Colosseum into the Roman Forum. It marked Titus' campaign in Judea which led to the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple. Titus' deified image is depicted lifted up to the heavens on the back of an eagle.
An inscription in the confessio of the basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura in #Rome marks the burial place of St Stephen, St Justin Martyr and St Lawrence
What the Trevi Fountain in #Rome looks like in your imagination vs. what it looks like when you arrive the day after Barcelona wins the 2009 UEFA Champions League Final.
Serious #Downfall vibes in the series finale of #Rome. I’m not an educated classicist and I know they had to change things for the show and its collapsing budget by this point, but I’m a bit skeptical that the real story was like this.
No wonder people see this show as a precursor to Game of Thrones - I may get round to watching that. I’ll have to rewatch season 1 later.
I also just bought Ten Caesars and will read it soon.
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"To Sea-set Kypros the moist breath of Zephryos (the West Wind) wafted her [#Aphrodite] over the waves of the loud-moaning sea in soft foam, and there the gold-filleted #Horai (Seasons) welcomed her joyously. They clothed her with heavenly garments."
Homeric Hymn 6
🏛 The birth of Aphrodite, marble relief, 460-450 BCE, Palazzo Altemps, #Rome
"As we can discern from Plutarch and Appian, beyond the socio-economic impacts, the ancient historians equated the displacement of the family-run smallholdings with the slave-dependent Latifundia with a concurrent moral decline that degraded the Roman Republic."