Jon Hawke 🏛️🏺

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards. Hunter S. Thompson

@TheRedmenTV Can you bring that lad back to explain this tactical mess he was all for.

Salah didn't come on, much like the Reds' defence, we are all over the place

#FrescoFriday at the #VaticanMuseums offers us part of a #fresco cycle discovered in 1848 in a dig in today's via Cavour, which shows scenes from the #Odyssey dating from the mid C1 BCE. This scene shows the magnificent palace of #Circe, with #Odysseus threatening her at centre.

Exquisite! Pompei! @AndanteTravels @chapps @DariusAryaDigs @DrJEBall @HawkeJon @HistoryRage @iconbooks @penswordbooks @pete_savin @Ritterton @romanarchaeouk @TraffordLj @WittsPat

@SimonElliott20 Great part on early Ischia

@HawkeJon Ooh, fab tip mate!

Ischia from Cumae, the first major Greek settlement of Magna Graecia!!!

Arne Slot: "I have every reason to believe I will be the Liverpool manager next season."

Labour MP calls Wes Streeting a ‘once in a generational talent’ channel4.com/news/labour-mp…

2,600-Year-Old Sardis Stepped Terraces Reveal How Lydia Built a Royal City Before Croesus anatolianarchaeology.net/2600-year-old-…

Pyx or it didn't happen. #ReliefWednesday takes us to the #Bargello in #Florence to admire this #ivory #pyx from 500-525 CE with the story of #Actaeon, yet more evidence that classical culture did not end with the coming of #Christianity.

Down with the bond market! Down with gravity! Why Labour's rebels without a leader need to learn some basic economics: socialism has to be built out of the capitalism that exists, not our imagination... (link in next file, unpaywalled)...

JP Morgan boss threatens to axe £3bn UK investment if Labour lurches to the left with Starmer replacement lbc.co.uk/article/jp-mor…

On #EpigraphyTuesday our attention is drawn to this cylindrical #altar to #Hercules, from the #ForumBoarium, used for many centuries as the base for a famous #bronze statue of the god. It dates to about June of 81 CE, as the #inscription tells us.

Collo, Algeria. This city, originally named Chullu, was founded in the 5th century BC. In the 2nd century AD, Emperor Trajan created the Confederation of Cirta, named Respublica IV coloniarum Cirtensium, that included Cirta, Chullu, Milev, Rusicade, and Tiddis #Algeria #Numidia

#MosaicMonday plunges us under the cathedral of #Florence, to discover the #palaeochristian pavement of the first cathedral, S. #Reparata, from the early C5 CE, still very much part of the classical tradition, with a #mosaic floor of complex #geometric patterns.

#MosaicMonday The entrance doorway along mosaic in corridor/fauces towards atrium House of the Wild Boar. #Pompeii #Archaeology #artwork #History

@paulmasonnews Time to put down the bong. La our Together has smashed the party.

What Keir Starmer needs to do. Starting tomorrow. 1/ - the electorate is fragmenting into values-based blocs – Green, nationalist, xenophobic/nostalgic, Islamist - threat actors – CRINK, MAGA – are conducting hybrid warfare to exacerbate the tensions - Labour is floundering because of systemic checks and balances

13/ And remember - every Labour leader after Blair has been destroyed by press and social media: Gordon, Ed, Jeremy, Keir... there is no guarantee that somebody with better comms skills does not suffer the same fate. It's the actions, not the person, that make the difference.

Ethelred the Unready coin hoard found by Maldon detectorist - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

A conspicuous piece of #spolia stands in the C15 atrium of the #TordeSpecchi monastery in #Rome, this #SpoliaSunday: a massive upside-down #sarcophagus lid from the C5, reused as a #manger for the mule of the nunnery's founder, S. Francesca Romana. 📸 Francesca Casonio via IG