Carausius
@carausius286.bsky.social
Hello, classics graduate - I’m interested in classics, the middle ages, history in general and art. Also, rabbits. Currently reacquainting myself with Latin via Virgil, Ovid, Juvenal, Tibullus and Catullus.
“Sarcastic Brit” - the Guardian
“Sarcastic Brit” - the Guardian
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Oh, hello the French. Invented the bikini, did you? Think you were the first to think of its classic chic lines, do you? Well?
Nah, the Romans got there first. This C4th AD mosaic from Piazza Amerina in Sicily shows Roman women exercising.
#MosaicMonday
Nah, the Romans got there first. This C4th AD mosaic from Piazza Amerina in Sicily shows Roman women exercising.
#MosaicMonday
June 16, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Oh, hello the French. Invented the bikini, did you? Think you were the first to think of its classic chic lines, do you? Well?
Nah, the Romans got there first. This C4th AD mosaic from Piazza Amerina in Sicily shows Roman women exercising.
#MosaicMonday
Nah, the Romans got there first. This C4th AD mosaic from Piazza Amerina in Sicily shows Roman women exercising.
#MosaicMonday
Oh, hello the French. Invented the bikini, did you? Think you were the first to think of its classic chic lines, do you? Well?
Nah, the Romans got there first. This C4th AD mosaic from Piazza Amerina in Sicily shows Roman women exercising.
#MosaicMonday
Nah, the Romans got there first. This C4th AD mosaic from Piazza Amerina in Sicily shows Roman women exercising.
#MosaicMonday
June 16, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Oh, hello the French. Invented the bikini, did you? Think you were the first to think of its classic chic lines, do you? Well?
Nah, the Romans got there first. This C4th AD mosaic from Piazza Amerina in Sicily shows Roman women exercising.
#MosaicMonday
Nah, the Romans got there first. This C4th AD mosaic from Piazza Amerina in Sicily shows Roman women exercising.
#MosaicMonday
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The reverse of this ancient Greek silver coin depicts Protesilaos, most famous for being the first man to die in the Trojan War. Here, we see him stepping off his galley, fully armed, into the surf in the final moments of his life.
🕰️early 3rd century BC
📍 Thessalian Thebes
📷 CNG
🕰️early 3rd century BC
📍 Thessalian Thebes
📷 CNG
June 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The reverse of this ancient Greek silver coin depicts Protesilaos, most famous for being the first man to die in the Trojan War. Here, we see him stepping off his galley, fully armed, into the surf in the final moments of his life.
🕰️early 3rd century BC
📍 Thessalian Thebes
📷 CNG
🕰️early 3rd century BC
📍 Thessalian Thebes
📷 CNG
The reverse of this ancient Greek silver coin depicts Protesilaos, most famous for being the first man to die in the Trojan War. Here, we see him stepping off his galley, fully armed, into the surf in the final moments of his life.
🕰️early 3rd century BC
📍 Thessalian Thebes
📷 CNG
🕰️early 3rd century BC
📍 Thessalian Thebes
📷 CNG
June 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The reverse of this ancient Greek silver coin depicts Protesilaos, most famous for being the first man to die in the Trojan War. Here, we see him stepping off his galley, fully armed, into the surf in the final moments of his life.
🕰️early 3rd century BC
📍 Thessalian Thebes
📷 CNG
🕰️early 3rd century BC
📍 Thessalian Thebes
📷 CNG
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Enjoying the lugubrious (or coy?) expression of the donkey being fed by a boy from a basket in this Byzantine-era mosaic of daily life, from the Great Palace of Constantinople (5th century onwards, Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul)
June 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Enjoying the lugubrious (or coy?) expression of the donkey being fed by a boy from a basket in this Byzantine-era mosaic of daily life, from the Great Palace of Constantinople (5th century onwards, Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul)
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On #FindsFriday, here’s the Battersea Shield, a masterpiece of Celtic bronzework. It was found in the Thames in the 19th century and was probably some kind of votive offering.
🏛️BM
📷 mine
🏛️BM
📷 mine
June 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
On #FindsFriday, here’s the Battersea Shield, a masterpiece of Celtic bronzework. It was found in the Thames in the 19th century and was probably some kind of votive offering.
🏛️BM
📷 mine
🏛️BM
📷 mine
On #FindsFriday, here’s the Battersea Shield, a masterpiece of Celtic bronzework. It was found in the Thames in the 19th century and was probably some kind of votive offering.
🏛️BM
📷 mine
🏛️BM
📷 mine
June 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
On #FindsFriday, here’s the Battersea Shield, a masterpiece of Celtic bronzework. It was found in the Thames in the 19th century and was probably some kind of votive offering.
🏛️BM
📷 mine
🏛️BM
📷 mine
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An ancient fresco of Macedonian soldiers from the tomb of Agios Athanasios, Thessaloniki, Greece.
You can see the influence of these types of figures stretching all the way from Macedonia to Renaissance Italy. I look at these & see Mantegna.
🕰️ 4th century BC
📷 Wikipedia Commons
#FrescoFriday
You can see the influence of these types of figures stretching all the way from Macedonia to Renaissance Italy. I look at these & see Mantegna.
🕰️ 4th century BC
📷 Wikipedia Commons
#FrescoFriday
June 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
An ancient fresco of Macedonian soldiers from the tomb of Agios Athanasios, Thessaloniki, Greece.
You can see the influence of these types of figures stretching all the way from Macedonia to Renaissance Italy. I look at these & see Mantegna.
🕰️ 4th century BC
📷 Wikipedia Commons
#FrescoFriday
You can see the influence of these types of figures stretching all the way from Macedonia to Renaissance Italy. I look at these & see Mantegna.
🕰️ 4th century BC
📷 Wikipedia Commons
#FrescoFriday
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In #PrideMonth here’s one side of the sexually explicit Warren Cup. It shows an older, bearded man (the erastes) having intercourse with a younger man (the eromenos). To the right, a slave, salaciously smirking, spies on them from a partially opened door.
🕰️early C1st AD
🏛️ BM
📷 mine
🕰️early C1st AD
🏛️ BM
📷 mine
June 12, 2025 at 4:41 AM
In #PrideMonth here’s one side of the sexually explicit Warren Cup. It shows an older, bearded man (the erastes) having intercourse with a younger man (the eromenos). To the right, a slave, salaciously smirking, spies on them from a partially opened door.
🕰️early C1st AD
🏛️ BM
📷 mine
🕰️early C1st AD
🏛️ BM
📷 mine
An ancient fresco of Macedonian soldiers from the tomb of Agios Athanasios, Thessaloniki, Greece.
You can see the influence of these types of figures stretching all the way from Macedonia to Renaissance Italy. I look at these & see Mantegna.
🕰️ 4th century BC
📷 Wikipedia Commons
#FrescoFriday
You can see the influence of these types of figures stretching all the way from Macedonia to Renaissance Italy. I look at these & see Mantegna.
🕰️ 4th century BC
📷 Wikipedia Commons
#FrescoFriday
June 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
An ancient fresco of Macedonian soldiers from the tomb of Agios Athanasios, Thessaloniki, Greece.
You can see the influence of these types of figures stretching all the way from Macedonia to Renaissance Italy. I look at these & see Mantegna.
🕰️ 4th century BC
📷 Wikipedia Commons
#FrescoFriday
You can see the influence of these types of figures stretching all the way from Macedonia to Renaissance Italy. I look at these & see Mantegna.
🕰️ 4th century BC
📷 Wikipedia Commons
#FrescoFriday
In #PrideMonth here’s one side of the sexually explicit Warren Cup. It shows an older, bearded man (the erastes) having intercourse with a younger man (the eromenos). To the right, a slave, salaciously smirking, spies on them from a partially opened door.
🕰️early C1st AD
🏛️ BM
📷 mine
🕰️early C1st AD
🏛️ BM
📷 mine
June 12, 2025 at 4:41 AM
In #PrideMonth here’s one side of the sexually explicit Warren Cup. It shows an older, bearded man (the erastes) having intercourse with a younger man (the eromenos). To the right, a slave, salaciously smirking, spies on them from a partially opened door.
🕰️early C1st AD
🏛️ BM
📷 mine
🕰️early C1st AD
🏛️ BM
📷 mine
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A powerful scene for #ReliefWednesday Hector’s despoiled body is returned to Troy. Men chatter alarmed in the rear as they now ponder Troy’s fate. Right, women loudly lament. One (Andromache?) reaches out in grief to touch his hair
🏛️ late C2nd AD, Louvre
📷 Marie-Lan Nguyen
🏛️ late C2nd AD, Louvre
📷 Marie-Lan Nguyen
June 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
A powerful scene for #ReliefWednesday Hector’s despoiled body is returned to Troy. Men chatter alarmed in the rear as they now ponder Troy’s fate. Right, women loudly lament. One (Andromache?) reaches out in grief to touch his hair
🏛️ late C2nd AD, Louvre
📷 Marie-Lan Nguyen
🏛️ late C2nd AD, Louvre
📷 Marie-Lan Nguyen
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A digital reconstruction of an #IronAge hillfort of White Caterthurn, Angus, #Scotland, has been created by a photographer during his during PhD research.
Digital reconstruction of White Catherturn hillfort (by Kieran Baxter)
#HillfortsWednesday
#Archaeology
#History
Digital reconstruction of White Catherturn hillfort (by Kieran Baxter)
#HillfortsWednesday
#Archaeology
#History
June 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
A digital reconstruction of an #IronAge hillfort of White Caterthurn, Angus, #Scotland, has been created by a photographer during his during PhD research.
Digital reconstruction of White Catherturn hillfort (by Kieran Baxter)
#HillfortsWednesday
#Archaeology
#History
Digital reconstruction of White Catherturn hillfort (by Kieran Baxter)
#HillfortsWednesday
#Archaeology
#History
A powerful scene for #ReliefWednesday Hector’s despoiled body is returned to Troy. Men chatter alarmed in the rear as they now ponder Troy’s fate. Right, women loudly lament. One (Andromache?) reaches out in grief to touch his hair
🏛️ late C2nd AD, Louvre
📷 Marie-Lan Nguyen
🏛️ late C2nd AD, Louvre
📷 Marie-Lan Nguyen
June 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
A powerful scene for #ReliefWednesday Hector’s despoiled body is returned to Troy. Men chatter alarmed in the rear as they now ponder Troy’s fate. Right, women loudly lament. One (Andromache?) reaches out in grief to touch his hair
🏛️ late C2nd AD, Louvre
📷 Marie-Lan Nguyen
🏛️ late C2nd AD, Louvre
📷 Marie-Lan Nguyen
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April 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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This bronze cuirass is Greek or Italian and dates from the 4th century BC. This type of muscled cuirass was popular from the 6th century BC onwards. The sections were joined at the shoulders and sides, usually by straps and buckles in addition to hinges with removeable pins.
🏛️ BM
📷 mine
🏛️ BM
📷 mine
June 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
This bronze cuirass is Greek or Italian and dates from the 4th century BC. This type of muscled cuirass was popular from the 6th century BC onwards. The sections were joined at the shoulders and sides, usually by straps and buckles in addition to hinges with removeable pins.
🏛️ BM
📷 mine
🏛️ BM
📷 mine
Just found one of my daughters has decided to leave pictures of food from old cookery mags on the floor for Herman to nibble on.
Herman approves.
Herman approves.
June 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Just found one of my daughters has decided to leave pictures of food from old cookery mags on the floor for Herman to nibble on.
Herman approves.
Herman approves.
This bronze cuirass is Greek or Italian and dates from the 4th century BC. This type of muscled cuirass was popular from the 6th century BC onwards. The sections were joined at the shoulders and sides, usually by straps and buckles in addition to hinges with removeable pins.
🏛️ BM
📷 mine
🏛️ BM
📷 mine
June 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
This bronze cuirass is Greek or Italian and dates from the 4th century BC. This type of muscled cuirass was popular from the 6th century BC onwards. The sections were joined at the shoulders and sides, usually by straps and buckles in addition to hinges with removeable pins.
🏛️ BM
📷 mine
🏛️ BM
📷 mine
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A Dido and Aeneas #MosaicMonday. The Low Ham #Roman mosaic shows the tragic love story. A 4th century AD piece found in the bath block, the oldest object in Britiain that tells a complete story. shorturl.at/3QrPK
📷 The Museum of Somerset
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #archaeology
📷 The Museum of Somerset
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #archaeology
June 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Dido and Aeneas #MosaicMonday. The Low Ham #Roman mosaic shows the tragic love story. A 4th century AD piece found in the bath block, the oldest object in Britiain that tells a complete story. shorturl.at/3QrPK
📷 The Museum of Somerset
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #archaeology
📷 The Museum of Somerset
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #archaeology
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This is ludicrously beautiful. It’s a Roman glass bowl made with the millefiori method. It dates to the 1st century AD.
🏛️📷 Thorvaldsen Museum
🏛️📷 Thorvaldsen Museum
June 9, 2025 at 6:03 AM
This is ludicrously beautiful. It’s a Roman glass bowl made with the millefiori method. It dates to the 1st century AD.
🏛️📷 Thorvaldsen Museum
🏛️📷 Thorvaldsen Museum
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On #MosaicMonday here’s a basket of fruit and a basket of seafood, including various fish, squid, eel and little prawns. It was once a pavement for a dining room.
🕰️C1-2nd AD
🏛️BM
📷 mine
🕰️C1-2nd AD
🏛️BM
📷 mine
June 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
On #MosaicMonday here’s a basket of fruit and a basket of seafood, including various fish, squid, eel and little prawns. It was once a pavement for a dining room.
🕰️C1-2nd AD
🏛️BM
📷 mine
🕰️C1-2nd AD
🏛️BM
📷 mine
On #MosaicMonday here’s a basket of fruit and a basket of seafood, including various fish, squid, eel and little prawns. It was once a pavement for a dining room.
🕰️C1-2nd AD
🏛️BM
📷 mine
🕰️C1-2nd AD
🏛️BM
📷 mine
June 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
On #MosaicMonday here’s a basket of fruit and a basket of seafood, including various fish, squid, eel and little prawns. It was once a pavement for a dining room.
🕰️C1-2nd AD
🏛️BM
📷 mine
🕰️C1-2nd AD
🏛️BM
📷 mine
This is ludicrously beautiful. It’s a Roman glass bowl made with the millefiori method. It dates to the 1st century AD.
🏛️📷 Thorvaldsen Museum
🏛️📷 Thorvaldsen Museum
June 9, 2025 at 6:03 AM
This is ludicrously beautiful. It’s a Roman glass bowl made with the millefiori method. It dates to the 1st century AD.
🏛️📷 Thorvaldsen Museum
🏛️📷 Thorvaldsen Museum
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This golden cape was found in Mold, Wales in the 19th century. It dates between c1900-1600 BC. The goldsmith who made this must have been a master. The decoration is precise, technically skilled and beautiful. It’s a tiny thing so may have been used ritually by women or children.
🏛️BM
📷 mine
🏛️BM
📷 mine
June 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This golden cape was found in Mold, Wales in the 19th century. It dates between c1900-1600 BC. The goldsmith who made this must have been a master. The decoration is precise, technically skilled and beautiful. It’s a tiny thing so may have been used ritually by women or children.
🏛️BM
📷 mine
🏛️BM
📷 mine
This golden cape was found in Mold, Wales in the 19th century. It dates between c1900-1600 BC. The goldsmith who made this must have been a master. The decoration is precise, technically skilled and beautiful. It’s a tiny thing so may have been used ritually by women or children.
🏛️BM
📷 mine
🏛️BM
📷 mine
June 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This golden cape was found in Mold, Wales in the 19th century. It dates between c1900-1600 BC. The goldsmith who made this must have been a master. The decoration is precise, technically skilled and beautiful. It’s a tiny thing so may have been used ritually by women or children.
🏛️BM
📷 mine
🏛️BM
📷 mine