From the Achilles-Penthesilea sarcophagus in the Vatican Museum c230 AD 😁
From the Achilles-Penthesilea sarcophagus in the Vatican Museum c230 AD 😁
Centurion (2010) about the loss of the 9th legion, and The Eagle (2011) about the son of a 9th legion soldier reclaiming the company standard.
#filmsky #romanempire #fassbender #channingtatum #movies
Centurion (2010) about the loss of the 9th legion, and The Eagle (2011) about the son of a 9th legion soldier reclaiming the company standard.
#filmsky #romanempire #fassbender #channingtatum #movies
“... It’s an indication of an end phase, where people turn to rituals and odd beliefs,” says Leibniz Center for Archaeology archaeologist Detlef Gronenborn. “Then it breaks out in an orgy of violence. Then it stops, but it’s too late.”
“... It’s an indication of an end phase, where people turn to rituals and odd beliefs,” says Leibniz Center for Archaeology archaeologist Detlef Gronenborn. “Then it breaks out in an orgy of violence. Then it stops, but it’s too late.”
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
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10/20 Matteo Baroni, Head, 1977
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
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10/20 Matteo Baroni, Head, 1977
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
17/20 (attr. to) Agesander, Athenodoros, Polydoros, ~68AD: Laocoön, detail
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
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17/20 (attr. to) Agesander, Athenodoros, Polydoros, ~68AD: Laocoön, detail
The great British novelist W. Somerset Maugham wrote this in his 1940 work Books and You, a collection of essays which he subtitled "A Dissertation Upon Reading" #bookworm #booklover #booknerd #readingislife
The great British novelist W. Somerset Maugham wrote this in his 1940 work Books and You, a collection of essays which he subtitled "A Dissertation Upon Reading" #bookworm #booklover #booknerd #readingislife
- why we think of Rome a certain way,
- why it matters,
- and the many interpretations of Rome we dismiss.
It's basically a v fun history of (a lot of) Afro-Eurasia. Buy it here!
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- why we think of Rome a certain way,
- why it matters,
- and the many interpretations of Rome we dismiss.
It's basically a v fun history of (a lot of) Afro-Eurasia. Buy it here!
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/all-...
Entertainment is how we get more people to discover real history. Besides, the cyclops isn’t historically accurate to begin with. #filmsky #history
#miniatures #nerdlings
#miniatures #nerdlings