Gareth Harney

Moneta is out today in paperback! "Riveting ... An utterly original history of Rome that compels from start to finish. A wonderful read." ― Mail on Sunday "An excellent 1,000 year history of Rome told in an engaging new way ... well worth a few denarii." ― The Times

There were once identical twin brothers who were constantly mistaken for each other. After one of them sadly passed away, someone met the surviving twin on the street, and asked him, 'Was it you or your brother who died?' - Philogelos Joke book, c.4th century AD.

A spellbinding wooden portrait from ancient Egypt's 21st Dynasty c.1000 BC. The wooden mask has been meticulously carved, polished to an almost reflective finish, and enhanced with inlaid eyes of hippopotamus ivory. ArtAncient Frieze Masters

This ivory statuette of Lakshmi - a goddess of wealth revered by early Hindus, Buddhists and Jains - was found in the ruins of Pompeii in 1938. The 25cm statuette is evidence of established Indo-Roman trade by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. ‘Secret Cabinet' of Naples Museum.

'We began with the three characters: Pullo, Vorenus, and young Octavian, and the missing eagle. What immediately struck me about the concept was its take on ‘Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead’ – that you could see the whole history of the fall of the Republic through the eyes of two ordinary Romans. That’s the idea I pitched to HBO.’ - Bruno Heller #Rome20

A few of the books in my library on Alexander the Great and ancient Alexandria📚📕📗📘📚

Greek terracotta cup in the shape of a hoof, decorated with a herdsman and his cows, c.470 BC, The Met

@Eminescolog Or any of the others. He also wasn't alive in 40 BC. That's the point.

@OptimoPrincipi Julius Caesar didn’t conquer Dacia.

Julius Caesar returns to Rome in 40 BC following the total conquest of Parthia, Armenia, Scythia, Dacia, and Germania.

@Sarkisx_ Wake up. He also wasn't alive in 40 BC. 😂

@OptimoPrincipi Get your history right he didn't conquer Armenia

@TomlinsonCJ @nonregemesse Not in the actual theatre cavea, but another curia in its formal gardens.

@nonregemesse It was during Caesar's time, because the Senate gathered in the Theatre of Pompey.

This is what the Roman senate looked like and unlike in film and paintings, it was not semicircular.

@felipehelsinki Interestingly, Burebista assassinated at almost the exact same time as Caesar in 44 BC.

@OptimoPrincipi Dacia? You might need to have a word with Trajan.

@rickboardman Caesar was in the final preparations for this colossal campaign when he was murdered on the ides. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Ca…

@OptimoPrincipi He was dead in 40BC.

⚱️ Marcus Aurelius died #OnThisDay in AD 180, in Vindobona (modern-day Vienna) while on a military campaign against the Marcomanni tribe. His son, Commodus, becomes the sole emperor.

Lectura para los próximos días: esto de @OptimoPrincipi en @EdicionesDeusto... planetadelibros.com/libro-moneta/4…

@Crastino @EdicionesDeusto ¡Disfrútalo, Óscar!

Roman grave monument for a beloved horse, with a moving epitaph: 'You once outran the wandering birds and beat the northwest winds, now you graze no longer in Tuscan woods and Siculan fields, but rest stabled in this tomb.' From Brescia, 2nd century AD, Verona Maffeiano Museum

How Gladiator’s Iconic Helmets Were Designed youtu.be/bnz_ANfb3F8?si… via @YouTube

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The chapter to read today. 🗡️🗡️

@SimplyVision_ 👍

@OptimoPrincipi What is the title of this book

@s_ulver Too soon!