For more on the sack of Rome, see:
GODDEN, M. (2002). The Anglo-Saxons and the Goths: Rewriting the sack of Rome. Anglo-Saxon England, 31, 47-68.
jstor.org/stable/44510...
#OnThisDay #ClassicsCurio 🧵🏺
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Obverse of a Roman solidus: Bust of Honorius, pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed, right.
Reverse of a Roman solidus: Honorius, draped, cuirassed, standing right, relaxed, holding standard in right hand and Victory on globe in left hand; spurning seated bound captive whose knees are bent with left foot.
#OnThisDay meets #ClassicsCurio with the tale of the Sack of Rome and Honorius’ cock. Yes, you read that correctly, so strap in for a quick thread involving one of my favourite ancient anecdotes. 🧵🏺
Image: RIC X Honorius 1321; BM (1998,0430.1). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
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#ClassicsCurio - Never let us forget Pliny the Elder's claim that the beavers of the Black Sea Region practised self-castration as they knew they were hunted for 'castoreum' (Natural History 8.47 (109)). #Ouch
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For more on the sack of Rome, see:
GODDEN, M. (2002). The Anglo-Saxons and the Goths: Rewriting the sack of Rome. Anglo-Saxon England, 31, 47-68.
jstor.org/stable/44510...
#PoultryDay #ClassicsCurio 🧵🏺🐔
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Obverse of a Roman solidus: Bust of Honorius, pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed, right.
Reverse of a Roman solidus: Honorius, draped, cuirassed, standing right, relaxed, holding standard in right hand and Victory on globe in left hand; spurning seated bound captive whose knees are bent with left foot.
#PoultryDay meets #ClassicsCurio with the tale of the Sack of Rome and Honorius’ cock. Yes, you read that correctly, so strap in for a quick thread involving one of my favourite ancient anecdotes. 🧵🏺🐔
Image: RIC X Honorius 1321; BM (1998,0430.1). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
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A quick #ClassicsCurio about the greatest dictator in Roman history, Julius Caesar.
No really, he was a great dictator... Pliny the Elder (NH 7.92) tells us that he could dictate four letters at once on important matters to his secretaries. *ba-dum-tss* #AncientBluesky 🏺
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#ClassicsCurio - Claudius introduced three new letters to the Latin alphabet to deal with issues of sound: the inverted digamma (ꓞ) for 'w'; 'Ͱ' for a sound midway between 'U' and 'I'; and 'Ɔ' for 'BS' (Suet. Claud. 41.3).
Image Link - aphrodisias-excavations.com/sebasteion-r...
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A small terracotta model of a man having his hair cut: ca. 500-475 BC Two bearded men wearing chitons. One, a barber, cuts the hair of the seated man. The flesh of both men is dark red. The chitons appear to have been white and the stool, yellow. The base of the group was once white with red paint along the edge.
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A quick #ClassicsCurio - A garrulous barber once asked King Archelaus of Macedonia how he wanted to have his hair trimmed. He answered, "In silence" - ‘πῶς σε κείρω;’ ‘σιωπῶν,’ ἔφη (Plutarch, 'Sayings of Kings and Commanders' 177a.2).
Image: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (01.7784)
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#ClassicsCurio - Pets being pampered is definitely not a modern thing, as let's not forget that the orator Lucius Crassus had a pet moray eel, which he adorned with jewellery. He donned mourning garb when the creature died "and grieved for it like a daughter" (Macrobius 3.15.4). #AncientBluesky🏺
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#ClassicsCurio - Emperor Claudius introduced three new letters to the Latin alphabet to deal with issues of sound: namely the inverted digamma (ꓞ) for 'w'; 'Ͱ' for a sound midway between 'U' and 'I'; and 'Ɔ' for 'BS' (see Suet. Claud. 41.3). 🏺
Image: British Museum (1965,1201.1).
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