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This is how a God looks like.
Colossal statue of Bacchus/Dionysus, the god of inebriation and joyous happiness, with a Satyr and a panther.
Roman copy AD 160-180 of a Greek original of the C4th BC.
Palazzo Altemps, Rome.
#ancientrome #ancientgreece #archaeology #history #ancientsky #art #gods
Colossal statue of Bacchus/Dionysus, the god of inebriation and joyous happiness, with a Satyr and a panther.
Roman copy AD 160-180 of a Greek original of the C4th BC.
Palazzo Altemps, Rome.
#ancientrome #ancientgreece #archaeology #history #ancientsky #art #gods
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Italy celebrates 229 years of the tricolour flag
January 7, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Italy celebrates 229 years of the tricolour flag
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A wonderful depiction of Thetis carrying the shield of Achilles on a “dolphin”, from Hephaestus’ workshop to Troy.
Thetis was espouse of Peleus (the prophetic shapeshifter) & mother of Achilles the greatest Greek hero.
Her cult & her priestesses were treated with utmost respect.
#ancientbluesky
Thetis was espouse of Peleus (the prophetic shapeshifter) & mother of Achilles the greatest Greek hero.
Her cult & her priestesses were treated with utmost respect.
#ancientbluesky
December 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
A wonderful depiction of Thetis carrying the shield of Achilles on a “dolphin”, from Hephaestus’ workshop to Troy.
Thetis was espouse of Peleus (the prophetic shapeshifter) & mother of Achilles the greatest Greek hero.
Her cult & her priestesses were treated with utmost respect.
#ancientbluesky
Thetis was espouse of Peleus (the prophetic shapeshifter) & mother of Achilles the greatest Greek hero.
Her cult & her priestesses were treated with utmost respect.
#ancientbluesky
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View over Rome from the Ludovisi district
December 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
View over Rome from the Ludovisi district
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French cinema icon Brigitte Bardot, who has died aged 91, pictured here walking in Rome in April 1969.
December 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
French cinema icon Brigitte Bardot, who has died aged 91, pictured here walking in Rome in April 1969.
Wow. This blew me away. I rarely wow at quotes. This is something you'd read in a Camus novel, and even then this passage would be the highlight of his book.
🧘 Insight from Epictetus:
“I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.”
“I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.”
December 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Wow. This blew me away. I rarely wow at quotes. This is something you'd read in a Camus novel, and even then this passage would be the highlight of his book.
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🧘 Insight from Epictetus:
“I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.”
“I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.”
December 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🧘 Insight from Epictetus:
“I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.”
“I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.”
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I wish more original Greek statues still existed. For the longest time I didn't understand how much Roman art was/is a copy of original Greek work/art
Statue of Demeter. This 2nd century crystalline marble statue is thought to be a copy of a Greek original from 5th century BC.
Goddess Demeter with outstretched arms is displaying the product of the earth.
Boncampagni Ludovisi Collection. Pallazo Altemps. Roma
#ancientbluesky #acientrome #greece
Goddess Demeter with outstretched arms is displaying the product of the earth.
Boncampagni Ludovisi Collection. Pallazo Altemps. Roma
#ancientbluesky #acientrome #greece
December 31, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I wish more original Greek statues still existed. For the longest time I didn't understand how much Roman art was/is a copy of original Greek work/art
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🏛️ Philosophy from Seneca:
“It is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it.”
“It is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it.”
December 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🏛️ Philosophy from Seneca:
“It is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it.”
“It is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it.”
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“To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education.”
– Epictetus
#stoic #philosophy #wisdom
– Epictetus
#stoic #philosophy #wisdom
December 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education.”
– Epictetus
#stoic #philosophy #wisdom
– Epictetus
#stoic #philosophy #wisdom
Statue of Demeter. This 2nd century crystalline marble statue is thought to be a copy of a Greek original from 5th century BC.
Goddess Demeter with outstretched arms is displaying the product of the earth.
Boncampagni Ludovisi Collection. Pallazo Altemps. Roma
#ancientbluesky #acientrome #greece
Goddess Demeter with outstretched arms is displaying the product of the earth.
Boncampagni Ludovisi Collection. Pallazo Altemps. Roma
#ancientbluesky #acientrome #greece
December 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Statue of Demeter. This 2nd century crystalline marble statue is thought to be a copy of a Greek original from 5th century BC.
Goddess Demeter with outstretched arms is displaying the product of the earth.
Boncampagni Ludovisi Collection. Pallazo Altemps. Roma
#ancientbluesky #acientrome #greece
Goddess Demeter with outstretched arms is displaying the product of the earth.
Boncampagni Ludovisi Collection. Pallazo Altemps. Roma
#ancientbluesky #acientrome #greece
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🕊️ Calm wisdom from Marcus Tullius Cicero:
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
December 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
🕊️ Calm wisdom from Marcus Tullius Cicero:
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
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Miss Italio, from the Actresses series (N203) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co., 1889, by William S. Kimball & Company
Class: Photographs
Medium: Commercial color lithograph
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/715316
Class: Photographs
Medium: Commercial color lithograph
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/715316
December 29, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Miss Italio, from the Actresses series (N203) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co., 1889, by William S. Kimball & Company
Class: Photographs
Medium: Commercial color lithograph
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/715316
Class: Photographs
Medium: Commercial color lithograph
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/715316
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The Protocorinthian 'Macmillan aryballos' (perfume bottle)was made in Corinth c 650 BC; attributed to the Chigi Painter; said to be from Thebes. It’s only 7cm in height!!
#archaeology #ancientbluesky #greece
Photograph by me. British Museum
#archaeology #ancientbluesky #greece
Photograph by me. British Museum
December 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The Protocorinthian 'Macmillan aryballos' (perfume bottle)was made in Corinth c 650 BC; attributed to the Chigi Painter; said to be from Thebes. It’s only 7cm in height!!
#archaeology #ancientbluesky #greece
Photograph by me. British Museum
#archaeology #ancientbluesky #greece
Photograph by me. British Museum
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Caesar Divus Augustus
Rome
Photograph by me
Rome
Photograph by me
December 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Caesar Divus Augustus
Rome
Photograph by me
Rome
Photograph by me
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December 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.”
– Marcus Aurelius
#stoic #philosophy #wisdom
– Marcus Aurelius
#stoic #philosophy #wisdom
December 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.”
– Marcus Aurelius
#stoic #philosophy #wisdom
– Marcus Aurelius
#stoic #philosophy #wisdom
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December dawn at the Circus Maximus
December 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
December dawn at the Circus Maximus
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“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
– Seneca
#stoic #philosophy #wisdom
– Seneca
#stoic #philosophy #wisdom
December 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
– Seneca
#stoic #philosophy #wisdom
– Seneca
#stoic #philosophy #wisdom
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“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.”
– Marcus Aurelius
#stoic #philosophy #wisdom
– Marcus Aurelius
#stoic #philosophy #wisdom
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.”
– Marcus Aurelius
#stoic #philosophy #wisdom
– Marcus Aurelius
#stoic #philosophy #wisdom
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Martyrdom of Saint Matthew https://www.wikiart.org/en/caravaggio/martyrdom-of-saint-matthew-1600
December 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Martyrdom of Saint Matthew https://www.wikiart.org/en/caravaggio/martyrdom-of-saint-matthew-1600
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'Winter' from Caerwent, Wales (now in Newport Museum) wears a hooded cloak against the cold & wet, maybe the 'birrus Britannicus' mentioned in Diocletian's Price Edict of AD301.
A birrus was worth 6,000 denarii. Price details of Winter's furry mosaic companions in the ALT texts.
#MosaicMonday
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A birrus was worth 6,000 denarii. Price details of Winter's furry mosaic companions in the ALT texts.
#MosaicMonday
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December 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
'Winter' from Caerwent, Wales (now in Newport Museum) wears a hooded cloak against the cold & wet, maybe the 'birrus Britannicus' mentioned in Diocletian's Price Edict of AD301.
A birrus was worth 6,000 denarii. Price details of Winter's furry mosaic companions in the ALT texts.
#MosaicMonday
📸 me
A birrus was worth 6,000 denarii. Price details of Winter's furry mosaic companions in the ALT texts.
#MosaicMonday
📸 me
December 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Designed by one of the best architects of the time, Charles Fitzroy Doll. He was the surveyor of the Bedford Estate. He made another grand building few years down the road, but in the 60s it was falsely declared unsafe, razed, and was replaced by the brutalist The Imperial hotel
December 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Designed by one of the best architects of the time, Charles Fitzroy Doll. He was the surveyor of the Bedford Estate. He made another grand building few years down the road, but in the 60s it was falsely declared unsafe, razed, and was replaced by the brutalist The Imperial hotel
Callimachus (poet and librarian of Alexandria) had a vindictive poem of this name (Ibis) with litany of curses for an enemy. 2 centuries later Ovidius composed the same poem (Ibis) following Callimachus, full of innovative curses.
A rather aggressive congregation of Ibis (Ibises?) under the mistaken impression that I came bearing food.
#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #BirdOfTheDay #Groups #WeirdBirdWednesday #WednesdayWalks
#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #BirdOfTheDay #Groups #WeirdBirdWednesday #WednesdayWalks
December 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Callimachus (poet and librarian of Alexandria) had a vindictive poem of this name (Ibis) with litany of curses for an enemy. 2 centuries later Ovidius composed the same poem (Ibis) following Callimachus, full of innovative curses.