Summary of a chapter I wrote that I'd promised to discuss. Why did Alexander annihilate an entire people who'd surrendered to him? What might he have thought he was doing? Looks at religious motivations in ancient warfare. #blueskyancient #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky #alexanderthegreat
For #RomanFortThursday. Most people think Hadrian's Wall is the northern border of the Roman Empire. But a generation later, the Romans built the Antonine Wall further north, across the "waist" of Scotland. #Scotland #nature #landscape #photography #archaeology #ruins #AncientBlueSky #RomanRuins
El fuerte romano de caballería de Chesters es el más completo de Gran Bretaña. Conocido por los romanos como Cilurnum, fué construido alrededor del año 124 d.C. 📷 Montaje A.M.
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El fuerte romano de caballería de Chesters es el más completo de Gran Bretaña.
Conocido por los romanos como Cilurnum, fué construido alrededor del año 124 d.C.
#Hystory #Roma
#RomanArchaeology
#Archaeology
#AncientBluesky
#Genealogy #FamilyTree #Ancestry #FlaviusJosephus #JewSky #What'sHistory🗃️ #AncientBlueSky #ArriusPiso
#Discover #Books #CreationOfChristianity #booksky #BookSky💙📚 #Read #Reads #Christianity #What'sHistory🗃️ #AncientBlueSky
A Latin inscription carved on a gritstone tablet and painted with red text. The translation reads “To the holy god Serapis, Claudius Hieronymianus, legate of the Sixth Legion, Victorious, built this temple from the ground".
An inscription from a temple to Serapis in York, possibly built during the stay of the emperor Septimius Severus and family c.208-211 CE. The northern-most attested temple to an Egyptian god, the York temple may have also housed shrines to Isis, Harpocrates and Anubis. 🏺 #AncientBluesky #Egyptology
For #PalacesandGardens #Twisted, the "Three-Bodied Daemon" with a twisty tail (2023). This archaic Greek sculpture once adorned the Hekatompedon temple on the Acropolis of Athens.
#photography #ruins #AncientBlueSky #EastCoastKin #ECK #archaeology #Greece #Athens
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Of the hundreds of research papers & articles I've written, this is one that gives perhaps the best overall summary of 3 major religions (Judaism, Christianity & Islam) & how they came to be.
www.academia.edu/37008493/Whe...
The only way that I was able to make the progress that I have regarding the study of ancient history is having discovered royal authors were using their own language within language, the Royal Language. Others will have to learn that as well. #AncientBlueSky #Reads
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#Genealogy #WorldHistory #AncientHistory #MarcusAurelius #Pertinax #What'sHistory🗃️ #AncientBlueSky #EduSky🍎
Genealogies of emperor Marcus Aurelius:
These city walls of Chichester are Roman, still standing and still impressive. They were built or completed in this form at the end of the C3rd AD. Whilst they’ve been maintained since, they’re essentially the same as the year they were finished. A wonderful survival.
📷 mine
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CORBEL FROM THE ISÆUM CAMPENSIS, 81-84 CE. CLOISTER OF S. MARIA SOPRA MINERVA The huge complex dedicated to Isis and Serapis in the Campus Martius has left many traces of its existence, from the "talking statue" called Madonna Lucrezia outside palazzo Venezia to the marble foot that gave its name to via Piè di Marmo and even perhaps the huge bronze Pigna or pinecone now in the Vatican Museums, along with many statues and columns in the Capitoline Museums. After a fire destroyed much of the Campus Martius in 80 CE, Domitian lavishly rebuilt the complex, and we can see here the Flavian baroque of his constructions. On either side of this scrolled corbel are lovely acanthus leaves, but the main element is a figure of a young boy in a chlamys. Both his arms are missing but one is raised up so he can put a finger to his lips: shhh. This is the syncretic god Harpocrates, son of Isis and Serapis, a god of silence and secrets.
For #ReliefWednesday we have a lushly-decorated corbel from the #IsæumCampensis, probably from #Domitian's rebuilding after the devastating #fire of 80 CE that ravaged the Campus Martius. This is a little #Harpocrates, son of #Isis and #Serapis, god of secrets. #AncientBluesky 🏺
Iran’s civilization is much deeper and is more complex than East vs. West or Judeo-Christian nations against the Islamic Republic. Touraj Daryaee, director of the Center for Persian Studies at the University of California Irvine, explains.
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Classical Association Conference 2026
Hey Ancient peeps, who's going to Manchester this weekend? Looking forward to the @classicalassociation annual conference! Hope to meet loads of you (and if not, just looking forward to cool talks and nice food 😂). #ancienthistory #classics #classicalassociation #ancientromans #AncientBluesky
Relieve de mármol con gladiadoras, procedente de Halicarnaso (actual Bodrum, Turquía ), siglos I-II d.C. Museo Británico, Londres.
#ReliefWednesday
Historiadores afirman que gladiadoras de la antigua Roma.
Mujeres que participaban en combates VIP para emperadores y altos funcionarios en la antigua Roma, luchaban 'con los pechos al descubierto'
#History #Roma
#Archaeology
#RomanArchaeology
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This paper is one which illustrates the descent of Suetonius, as well as that of several royal and well-known Romans from Julius Agricola. #Agricola #Suetonius #Discover #What'sHistory🗃️ #AncientBlueSky @paulinsc.bsky.social
Suetonius' Descent From Julius Agricola
www.academia.edu/124691537/Su...
FUNERARY ALTAR OF CLAUDIA PISTE, 90-110 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS This beautiful example of early imperial epigraphy begins as a conventional prayer to the departed shades, to Claudia Piste, wife of Primus, "best, holy, and dutiful, well-deserving". She and her husband were probably Greek citizens of the empire, and Primus must have been wealthy to afford this large marble altar. In fact there is a contemporary cinerary urn dedicated, in Greek, to one Claudia Piste, also in the VM, but we cannot know if it was the same woman. Primus might have hired a poet to write his lament for the death of his wife, or he might have written it himself. After the first five lines the script shrinks to fit each line, with difficulty, into the available space. The poem is a poignant lament addressed by Primus to the Fates, remonstrating with them on the brevity of Piste's life and expressing his despair over her loss. His grief for her death is artfully communicated using metre and language. It's written in dactylic hexameter, a metre used for epic poetry and an indicator of the solemn nature of the elegy, as well as a hint of high social status. She may have died in childbirth. "Nothing is as sad as losing all life without new life."
#EpigraphyTuesday returns us to the #VaticanMuseums to see a long #epitaph for one #Claudia Piste, written by her husband Primus sometime in the later C2 CE, a sad lament in fine professional #epigraphy. #AncientBluesky 🏺
Fragmento. Parque Arqueológico dé Segóbriga, Cuenca 🇪🇦 España. 📷 A. M.
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Fragmento.
Parque Arqueológico dé Segóbriga, Cuenca 🇪🇦 España.
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#RomanArchaeology
#Archaeology
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#ancientbluesky #history #Britain #archaeology
What have the Romans ever done for us? Obviously, the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads …
But was a garrison self-sufficient in any way? Let’s find out!
Piranesi creatively used fragments & 'stones' from the ancient Forma Urbis Romae map of #Rome carved on stone plus a good dose of fantasy to reconstruct parts of his city plan.
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Who the Bible Gods were (God of the Old Testament and God of the New Testament). They were the God of Genesis, pharaoh Amenemhept I (circa 1992 BCE), and the God of the canon gospels, Arrius Calpurnius Piso; they were both of the biblical Dynasty. Their descendants were popes and created Islam as a way to get the Arabs to kill the Jews for them.
#Discover #AncientBlueSky #What'sHistory🗃️ @paulinsc.bsky.social @hermes61.bsky.social #Bible #God #AncientRoyalty #BiblicalDynasty #Adam #Jesus #JesusChrist #Christ #ReligionIsFraud #TruthAboutReligion #Patriarchy #Oligarchy #RoyalOligarchy #News
The Bible God/s ('God' was an inherited royal title)
#Discover #Genealogy #RoyalFamily #Italy #Rome #ChurchHistory #What'sHistory🗃️ #AncientBlueSky #RomanEmpire #HolyRomanEmpire
www.academia.edu/11025420/Pop...
#Discover #Christianity #Catholic #CatholicChurch #ChurchHistory #What'sHistory🗃️ #AncientBlueSky #History #RomanEmpire #Rome #Roma
www.academia.edu/10720286/Beg...
This paper is one which illustrates the descent of Suetonius, as well as that of several royal and well-known Romans from Julius Agricola. #AncientBlueSky #What'sHistory🗃️ #Suetonius #Agricola #JuliusAgricola #RomanEmpire #Rome
Suetonius' Descent From Julius Agricola
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Chronology: The War Between The Hasmonean Leadership & The Pharisees (to circa 50 BCE, Julius Caesar). The Sadducees, Herodians & The Caesars (circa 30 BCE-6 BCE). The Roman Committee To Create A New Religion (Under Tiberius, circa 14-37 CE). #AncientBlueSky #Bible
www.academia.edu/33161068/Sen...
#Discover #Genealogy #AncientBlueSky #What'sHistory🗃️ #EduSky🍎 #Calpurnia #JuliusCaesar #Charlemagne #RomanEmpire #History #Ancestry #FamilyTree
King Charlemagne's Descent From Lucius Calpurnius Piso
www.academia.edu/14498108/Cha...
#Discover #Genealogy #What'sHistory🗃️ #AncientBlueSky #Vespasian #EmperorVespasian #Flavians #ArriusPiso #Titus
Descent of emperor Vespasian & others from King Herod:
MOSAIC WITH A LION ATTACKING A BULL, C. 20 BCE (?). VATICAN MUSEUMS This beautiful little emblema was found in Hadrian's Villa in 1779, but the VM catalogue dates it to the early reign of Augustus, well before the existence of the Villa. This is not necessarily a mistake: emblemata were valuable artworks and could be collected. If this is early Augustan, it was almost certainly a Greek import, as Roman mosaicists were not yet capable of such refined work. We see here a desert landscape with rocky outcrops at left and centre. A few shrubs provide a bit of greenery. The space is divided horizontally by a river, on the far side of which a bull looks at the main action, safe from attack. At centre foreground, a lion has pounced on another bull, which is looking across at the bull on the other side. The lion is sinking its teeth into the bull's left haunch. The bull is staggering, its front legs folding. It's a goner. This is a lesson about the savagery of nature.
Let's make a sudden attack on #MosaicMonday with this #emblema from #VillaAdriana! This #mosaic now in the #VaticanMuseums shows how being in the wrong place at the wrong time can really bite you in the hindquarters. #AncientBluesky 🏺
