🪷 March 25 is the #Hilaria (Festival of Joy) celebrating the transgender rebirth of #Attis. It honors Magna Mater #Cybele and Attis. In March 129 AD #Antinous & #Hadrian visited Pessinus in Phrygia ruled by Cybele's transgender priests. Full details here: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/03/anti... 🪷
🪷 (Statue: Sabina as Venus, Hadrian as Mars at the Louvre) At the Ancient Roman #VernalEquinox ( 24 March - 25 March) we honor Magna Mater in the form of #Hadrian 's wife Sabina. A sham marriage? In fact, Hadrian severely punished those who insulted her: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/03/we-h... 🪷
Monday afternoon, on @RedState.
SECNAV John Phelan Cuts Ribbon in Alabama on 'Golden Fleet' Manufacturing Facility redstate.com/jenniferoo/2... #SECNAV #JohnPhelan #Alabama #RobertAderholt #TommyTuberville #KatieBritt #Hadrian #HadrianF4
🪷 March 23rd #WorldBearDay: We recall the day in spring 129 AD when #Antinous & #Hadrian slew a bear. This Constantine Arch tondo shows #Antinoos (left) & a bear (right). Bears are sacred to #Artemis / #Diana. Let us seek the divine bear power within us: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-... 🪷
Hadrian Unveils New Manufacturing Facility Supporting U.S. Navy Submarine Programs #United_States #Manufacturing #Hadrian #Navy #Cherokee
🪷 At the March #Equinox we remember that #Hadrian and #Antinous (looking over shoulder) slew a wild boar in spring 129 AD. The hunt was immortalized in this Arch of Constantine Arch tondo. See more images, read the full details here: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-... 🪷
🪷 At the March #Equinox we remember that #Hadrian and #Antinous slew a wild boar in spring 129 AD. The hunt was immortalized in this Arch of Constantine Arch tondo showing #Antinoos looking over shoulder. Painting by #MilanKovačević. Full report here: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-... 🪷
![STATUE DEDICATION TO THE DEIFIED VIBIA SABINA, 137 CE. FORUM OF JULIUS CÆSAR
This badly damaged marble base has been pieced together from fragments and was probably smashed for burning in the lime kilns. The dark wet holes on the top were where Sabina's statue was attached. The inscription, reconstructed, says " DIVAE SABINAE A[VG(ustae)] SABRATHE[NSES] EX AFR[ICA]", "To the divine empress Sabina. The people of Sabratha (dedicate this) from Africa". Why would the Sabrathans do this? This is one of only two inscriptions in Rome that mention the deified Sabina, who was given this honour after her death in 136/137 and before Hadrian's death in 138. At dome point in the C2, Sabratha was given colonial status and perhaps this statue marked the occasion. Vibia Sabina had no temple anywhere in the empire, and her one altar, possibly in the area of the temples to her mother Matidia and her husband in the Campus Martius, has long disappeared.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y2ps7or6drwz3yuvelv6glai/bafkreifjjwropp4hkf6l7gerlwu4a7y6in4pacydbtloxkrecndfyk2ihu)
STATUE DEDICATION TO THE DEIFIED VIBIA SABINA, 137 CE. FORUM OF JULIUS CÆSAR This badly damaged marble base has been pieced together from fragments and was probably smashed for burning in the lime kilns. The dark wet holes on the top were where Sabina's statue was attached. The inscription, reconstructed, says " DIVAE SABINAE A[VG(ustae)] SABRATHE[NSES] EX AFR[ICA]", "To the divine empress Sabina. The people of Sabratha (dedicate this) from Africa". Why would the Sabrathans do this? This is one of only two inscriptions in Rome that mention the deified Sabina, who was given this honour after her death in 136/137 and before Hadrian's death in 138. At dome point in the C2, Sabratha was given colonial status and perhaps this statue marked the occasion. Vibia Sabina had no temple anywhere in the empire, and her one altar, possibly in the area of the temples to her mother Matidia and her husband in the Campus Martius, has long disappeared.
For #EpigraphyTuesday we're in the #Forum of #Julius #Caesar to find a somewhat enigmatic #inscription from the late reign of #Hadrian, a statue dedication to the emperor's deified wife #Sabina by the citizens of #Sabratha, a town in North #Africa. #AncientBluesky 🏺
🪷 17 March is the Roman #Liberalia feast of manhood! There is a misconception that Antinous was underage when his relationship with #Hadrian started. But there is no historical evidence that their relationship began before he was an adult. All sculptural art depicts #Antinous as a mature male. 🪷
🪷 In these dark days of war, rage and ruin, we remember the sage wisdom of Marcus Aurelius. On 17 March 180 AD #MarcusAurelius died. He was the philosopher/emperor who knew #Hadrian and #Antinous. See how he influences the modern religion of #Antinoos: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/03/this... 🪷
🪷 March 7 is the #Junonalia festival of the Roman goddess #Juno, queen of heaven, with whom #Hadrian 's wife Empress Sabina is identified ritually. Celebrate the way the Romans did: lots of flowers, dancing, merriment and fabulous feasting. Details: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/03/we-j... 🪷
🪷 #Hadrian loved #Antinous so much that, when Antinous died in the Nile in October 130 AD, he declared #Antinoos a god and founded the city of #Antinoopolis on the Nile shoreline and erected temples and raised statues to him throughout the Empire. The last Classical deity ... the ultimate deity! 🪷
🪷 #Antinous sculptures often had inlaid gemstone eyes so that his eyes twinkled divinely. Those gemstones came from far corners of the Roman Empire ... and beyond! Experts have traced the #garnet gemstone eyes of a #Hadrian era bronze sculpture to India. More: greekreporter.com/2026/03/05/r... 🪷
Hadrian and his twin sister, I'dati, arm wrestling on a bright red rug. They both kick their legs excitedly in a near mirror of each other as they are locked in a stalemate arm wrestling.
#MiqoMarch2026 Day 5: Crimson
Back when they were young, before everything was complicated, they used to arm wrestle on the rug in the house.
[ #gpose | #hadrian | #FFXIV | #miqote | #pre1.0 | #valtiaverse ]
Tav (Octavel) points to a spot on the map while Hadrian studies it with a furrowed brow. Tav is smiling because he's pretty sure he's right.
Same verse as the first except the camera is pivoted to shoot them from the front, showing how Tav has his hand on Hadrian's left shoulder as they discuss the map.
#MiqoMarch2026 Day 4: Companion
Hadrian and Octavel Leveilleur on a quest together.
[ #gpose | #octavel | #hadrian | #FFXIV | #elezen | #miqote | #pre1.0 | #valtiaverse ]
Hadrian picking up a linkpearl call in the foreground, some bandits in the distance behind him.
Same verse as the first except the shot is zoomed into focus more on Hadrian.
#MiqoMarch2026 Day 3: Calling
A little recon work.
[ #gpose | #hadrian | #FFXIV | #miqote | #pre1.0 | #valtiaverse ]
Assault on Horvat‘Ethri during the Bar Kokhba Revolt (132-136 AD) by Peter Dennis.
Once I finish writing about Redcoats and Jacobites, I will begin work on the final generation of the Artorian Dynasty
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#AncientHistory #ancientrome #romanempire #RomanLegion #judea #jewishhistory #middleeast #Hadrian
🪷 #WorldBookDay is the 1st Thursday in March: #TheLoveGod by #MartinCampbell is a well-researched, fast-paced novel of the life of #Antinous. The best historical fiction book on #Hadrian & #Antinoos since #Yourcenar #HadriansMemoirs. Order: www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/1500... @martinglasto.bsky.social 🪷
📚 #WorldBookDay is the 1st Thursday in March. #Antinous #BookTip: Memoirs of #Hadrian (#MémoiresDHadrien) by Marguerite #Yourcenar is the finest Historical Novel ever written.📚
BATTLE SCENE FROM THE GREAT TRAJANIC FRIEZE, 114-120 CE. ARCH OF CONSTANTINE This triumphal arch is a triumph of spolia, consisting as it does of many pieces of relief work from the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian, and Marcus Aurelius, intelligently chosen by Constantine in 315-316 to reflect a reassuring programme of pacification and an end to civil war. Four large panels from a Hadrianic relief 30 m long and 3 m high, of which this is one, were reused. This relief is known as the Great Trajanic Frieze, though its original location is unknown. It is often said to have come from Trajan's Forum, though that was intact until at least the reign of Theodoric, two centuries after the arch was built. This scene shows a mêlée between Roman cavalry and infantry and Dacians who are falling or already on the ground. In the background are three trumpeters blowing the curved horns called buccinæ, and the whole scene resembles the front of the Great Ludovisi Sarcophagus, from 250-260 CE.
#ReliefWednesday takes us to the #Arch of #Constantine in #Rome, where a piece of the so-called Great Trajanic #Frieze, probably from the reign of #Hadrian, shows a battle scene from the #Dacian wars which may have influenced the sculptor of the Great #Ludovisi #sarcophagus. #AncientBluesky 🏺
🪷 March 4th is the Egyptian Feast of #Ra at #Heliopolis, where #Antinous proclaimed he would give his life for #Hadrian. Hieroglyphs on the Obelisk of #Antinoos say he rides with Re-Harakhte on the sun god's barque. Exclusive photos by #AntoniusSubia: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/03/anti... 🪷
Hadrian and Thancred idling somewhere in Sharlayan, Hadrian leaning against the stone wall while Thancred sits atop it. Both have their arms crossed.
#MiqoMarch2026 Day 2: Guardian
Not that he tries to notice but the boy he's been given is quite prone to copying him.
[ #gpose | #thancred | #hadrian | #FFXIV | #hyur | #miqote | #pre1.0 | #valtiaverse ]
The Worldly Affairs Officer in the foreground wags his finger in the foreground at Louisoix, who appears to be talking back from where he stands behind Hadrian. Hadrian stands close to the Worldly Affairs desk, writing down his answers to their initial questions. He's applying to work and live in Old Sharlayan.
A closer shot of Hadrian writing in his answers, Louisoix slightly out of focus behind him.
#MiqoMarch2026 Day 1: Begin
Hadrian fills out the paperwork to enter Sharlayan while Louisoix is scolded by the affairs officer.
[ #gpose | #hadrian | #FFXIV | #miqote | #elezen | #louisoix | #pre1.0 | #valtiaverse ]
🪷 "Hadrian & Antinous - Love and Apotheosis in the Roman Empire" is a spectacular new video by @planet-gay-comic.bsky.social ... Watch the 12:16min HD Video: youtu.be/68fXuV7Zyj8 #Hadrian #Antinous #AncientHistory #LGBTQHistory #loveisloveislove 🪷
🪷 "Hadrian & Antinous - Love and Apotheosis in the Roman Empire" is a spectacular new video by @planet-gay-comic.bsky.social ... Watch the 12:16min HD Video: youtu.be/68fXuV7Zyj8 #Hadrian #Antinous #AncientHistory #LGBTQHistory #loveisloveislove 🪷
👑 Hadrian & Antinous - Love and Apotheosis in the Roman Empire 🌿
Watch the 12:16min HD Video: youtu.be/68fXuV7Zyj8
#Hadrian #Antinous #AncientHistory #LGBTQHistory #LoveIsLove
🪷 #Hadrian appears to be "kissing" #Antinous at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in this photo. 🪷
RELIEF OF TRAJAN'S COLUMN, 118-120 CE. FORUM OF TRAJAN This long helicoidal relief recounts the two campaigns of conquest waged by Trajan to conquer Dacia, in 101-102 and 105-106 CE. It was probably carved after Trajan's death and deification in 117. Originally it was richly painted and had details in metal. This scene is at the beginning of the first campaign, with the huge figure of the river-god Danube at left, watching the profectio, the soldiers marching out to start the hostilities. They are crossing a pontoon bridge built atop boats bound together as the god watches keenly.
#ReliefWednesday today celebrates the greatest of #Roman #relief art, the column of #Trajan in #Rome. It is really a funeral monument, set up by Trajan in 113 CE. The relief might date from early in the reign of #Hadrian, c. 118. This is the beginning of the Dacian campaign. #AncientBluesky 🏺
Busts of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius; Busts of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Virus, Antonine Wall from the air and Hadrian's Wall and Turret 44b from the air
Busts of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius; Busts of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Virus, Antonine Wall from the air and Hadrian's Wall and Turret 44b from the air
Busts of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius; Busts of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Virus, Antonine Wall from the air and Hadrian's Wall and Turret 44b from the air
Busts of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius; Busts of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Virus, Antonine Wall from the air and Hadrian's Wall and Turret 44b from the air
#OTD 25 Feb AD138 #Hadrian adopted #AntoninusPius as his successor, on condition he adopt Marcus Aurelius & Lucius Verus.
Antoninus’ reign saw peace, prosperity, legal reforms, & the building of the #AntonineWall. He was succeeded by his adopted sons as co-emperors in AD161.
#RomanEmpire #History
