rogueclassicist ~ david meadows

#PhallusThursday takes us to the Museo Nazionale del #Bargello in #Florence to find a very unexpected bit of #classicalreception: a #relief attributed to #PierinodaVinci showing #Pan trying it on with a very dubious-looking young shepherd, Olympus. @TraffordLj

For #FrescoFriday we're in the #VaticanMuseums to admire a beautiful though sadly isolated figure of #Mars Propugnator, the god of attack, from a domus of the C2 CE, discovered at #Ostia in 1858.

Mausoleum of Augustus- still a work in progress!

'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

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Five Ways Ancient Queens Found Fame and Even Cult Followings Through Art and Visual Culture nyu.edu/about/news-pub…

Surveying Falerii Novi: Rethinking the development of a Roman town – The Past the-past.com/feature/survey…

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(98) Archeologists Investigate The 3,000-Year-Old Mummy Of Ramesses II - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=HIaCyy…

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Turkey in cultural diplomacy push to bring history home france24.com/en/live-news/2…

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IPHIGENIA Comes to Arcola Theatre in a New Adaptation by Serdar Biliş broadwayworld.com/brooklyn/artic…

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