Get to your weekend like the maenad you are, beautiful people! Low slung coverings, trays of delights, and the ability to float through the air are non-negotiable.
The details of the lower panels of the Ara Pacis are spectacular. The scrolling patterns of the acanthus foliage first catch the eye, but animals are hidden within and the panels are framed by more floral scrollwork and an intricate meander pattern. Beautiful!
🪔 For #EigraphyTuesday: These are Fasti Capitolini in the ‘Sala della Lupa’ - Salon of the Wolf – in the Musei Capitalini of Rome. “Fasti” is a list of all main magistrates of the Roman Republic: the first year for which records are preserved is 483 BC and the last surviving year is AD 13. 📸 me
🪔 For eyes pleasure: the atrium of the House of the Vestals on the Roman Forum in Rome. The Atrium Vestae was a three-story 50-room palace, standing at the foot of the Palatine Hill. Its elegant atrium with a double pool still can be seen today. 📸 me
🪔 The second photo shows the view on the atrium from the Palatine Hill.
The weekend is nearly here and that means (hopefully!) gathering together with loved ones and sharing a meal or a feast. Watch out for the hare though, they are already tucking into the delicious grapes 🍇
✨Special Episode - Exploring Place in Regal Rome with Neil, The Ancient Blogger - Part 2 ✨
We are joined by the lovely and knowledgeable Neil from the Ancient History Hound podcast to explore fascinating places including the Tullianum and the Circus Maximus!
🪔 For eyes pleasure: a fresco with a banquet scene from the Villa Doria Pamphili Columbarium - a graveyard along the western slopes of the Gianicolo Hill. Found in 1838, the columbarium had more than five hundred lucules. In 1922 the frescoes were removed and re-assembled, now on display in the Museo delle Terme. 📸 me
🪔 For eyes pleasure: Mausoleum of Hadrian, also known as Castel Sant'Angelo. It was built between 134 and 139 AD, and #Hadrian's ashes were placed here a year after his death in Baiae in 138 AD, together with those of his wife Sabina, and his first adopted son, Lucius Aelius, who died in 138. 📸 me. No filters, no photo editing.
🪔 On this frieze from the Trajan's Column one can see two scenes from the 1st Dacian war: above one can see #Trajan and his troops traveling by ship, then reaching shore and disembarking. Below Trajan is giving his second adlocutio - a speech addressed to his legions. 📸 me
🪔 For #FrescoFriday: Fresco fragment of a Calendar with Children bearing offerings to the goddess Diana. Beginning of the 3rd century A.D. Ostia, from an edifice near Porta Laurentina. Now in Musei Vaticani. 📸 me
🪔 For the #RuinOftheDay: remains of the Temple of Rome and Augustus right behind the Parthenon of Acropolis in Athens. It was likely built between 19 and 17 BC and it is the only Athenian temple dedicated to the cult of the Emperor. 📸 me
🪔 #OnThisDay, in 17 BC Secular Games of Octavian continued in Rome: spectators were offered games in Circus and an animal hunt. On the photo - the Temple of Apollo Palatinus build by Octavian and where choirs of boys and girls sang the Carmen Saeculare, composed for the occasion of Games by the poet Horace. 📸 me