#OnThisDay - 6 November - in AD 15 Agrippina the Younger was born. Great-granddaughter of Augustus, wife of Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero, Agrippina was herself a key figure of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. #Agrippina 🏺 Image: BM (1907,0415.1). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

Cut from the House of the Vestals, Pompeii (VI.1.7) #OnThisDay - 6 November - in 1789: a fine example of a sacro-idyllic landscape fresco, though that Billy-Goat rather seems to be lining up the gent on the bridge! #Pompeii 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9488)

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

A delightful history of a mongrel language

It's World Digital Preservation Day. Don't worry folks - we've got this digital preservation thing completely under control. 👍 #digipres #WDPD2025

#OnThisDay - 6 November - in AD 15 Agrippina the Younger was born. Great-granddaughter of Augustus, wife of Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero, Agrippina was herself a key figure of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. #Agrippina 🏺 Image: BM (1907,0415.1). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

Cut from the House of the Vestals, Pompeii (VI.1.7) #OnThisDay - 6 November - in 1789: a fine example of a sacro-idyllic landscape fresco, though that Billy-Goat rather seems to be lining up the gent on the bridge! #Pompeii 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9488)

Me when I overhear people saying that using AI takes the "hard work and misery" out of things...

#EpigraphyTuesday – A really rather interesting inscription from Roman Corbridge, ca. AD 161-166, being part of a dedication to the ‘Invincible Sun God’, though with a notable subsequent erasure in the first line. #Latin 🏺🧵 Image: Corbridge Museum (CO 23325). 📸 Mike Bishop

ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵 #LatinForTheDay – 4 November #Ovid “nec dubito, quin haec, cum sit tam iusta, vocetur rustica iudicio nostra querela tuo. rustica sim sane, dum non oblita pudoris, dumque tenor vitae sit sine labe meae. si non est ficto tristis mihi vultus in ore,...

Me when I overhear people saying that using AI takes the "hard work and misery" out of things...

#EpigraphyTuesday – A really rather interesting inscription from Roman Corbridge, ca. AD 161-166, being part of a dedication to the ‘Invincible Sun God’, though with a notable subsequent erasure in the first line. #Latin 🏺🧵 Image: Corbridge Museum (CO 23325). 📸 Mike Bishop

ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵 #LatinForTheDay – 4 November #Ovid “nec dubito, quin haec, cum sit tam iusta, vocetur rustica iudicio nostra querela tuo. rustica sim sane, dum non oblita pudoris, dumque tenor vitae sit sine labe meae. si non est ficto tristis mihi vultus in ore,...

#MosaicMonday - Back at work, so inspiration's needed! Yes, I'm feeling it already! 😂 Therefore here's a panel of the Muses - each shown with a symbol of their province. From Torre de Palma, ca. 4th Century AD. #Myth #Art 🏺 Image: Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon (999.149.1).

ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵 #LatinForTheDay – 3 November #Ovid “Luna fuit; specto, siquid nisi litora cernam. quod videant oculi, nil nisi litus habent. nunc huc, nunc illuc, et utroque sine ordine, curro; alta puellares tardat harena pedes. interea toto clamavi in litore “Theseu!”:...

#OnThisDay - 3 November - in AD 361 Constantius II died. He had come to power in AD 337, but the final years of his reign saw increasing challenges, including from his own cousin Julian. #History 🏺 Image: RIC VIII Antioch 68; Münzkabinett Berlin (18200511). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

#MosaicMonday - Back at work, so inspiration's needed! Yes, I'm feeling it already! 😂 Therefore here's a panel of the Muses - each shown with a symbol of their province. From Torre de Palma, ca. 4th Century AD. #Myth #Art 🏺 Image: Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon (999.149.1).

ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵 #LatinForTheDay – 3 November #Ovid “Luna fuit; specto, siquid nisi litora cernam. quod videant oculi, nil nisi litus habent. nunc huc, nunc illuc, et utroque sine ordine, curro; alta puellares tardat harena pedes. interea toto clamavi in litore “Theseu!”:...

#OnThisDay - 3 November - in AD 361 Constantius II died. He had come to power in AD 337, but the final years of his reign saw increasing challenges, including from his own cousin Julian. #History 🏺 Image: RIC VIII Antioch 68; Münzkabinett Berlin (18200511). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

November is depicted in this mosaic from Sousse, Tunisia, with a priest in the guise of Hermanubis with two pterophoroi. It commemorates the Inventio Osiridis, a week-long reenactment of the death of Osiris and the quest of Isis to recover his body, held in the month of Khoiak (Oct-Nov). 🏺 1/

#OnThisDay - 1 November - in AD 36, according to the Fasti at Ostia, Tiberius gave 100 million sesterces to rebuild areas in Rome around the Circus and the Aventine that had been damaged by fire. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC Tiberius 39; ANS 1944.100.39284. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

#OnThisDay - 1 November - in AD 36, according to the Fasti at Ostia, Tiberius gave 100 million sesterces to rebuild areas in Rome around the Circus and the Aventine that had been damaged by fire. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC Tiberius 39; ANS 1944.100.39284. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵 #LatinForTheDay for #Halloween – 31 October #Lucan “illi namque nefas urbis summittere tecto aut laribus ferale caput, desertaque busta incolit et tumulos expulsis obtinet umbris grata deis Erebi. coetus audire silentum, nosse domos Stygias arcanaque Ditis operti...

Finally, the perfect #Halloween costume for the Latinist in your life... 😉

Someone brought *two* pitchers of margaritas to the #Halloween party! 👻 🎃 ‘Carpe diem’ mosaic from the Casa del Fauno (House of the Faun), #Pompeii. MANN (Nat’l Archaeological Museum of Naples)

For #Halloween, here's the reclining skeleton mosaic from San Gregorio on the Via Appia. The Greek aphorism ΓΝΩΘΙ Σ(Ε)ΑΥΤΟΝ ('Know Thyself') is said to have been inscribed at the Temple of Apollo on Delphi (Pausanias 10.24.1). 🏺🦇 Image: Museo Nazionale Romano (Baths of Diocletian)

Happy #Halloween! A wonderful 2nd century AD Roman mosaic found near Antioch, Turkey showing a skeleton, cup of wine in hand, reclining on the floor of a dining room in a house reminding guests to enjoy life: ‘ευφρόσυνος’

If you see this, quote with a vampire that is not Dracula.

ClassicsBluesky 🏺🧵 #LatinForTheDay for #Halloween – 31 October #Lucan “illi namque nefas urbis summittere tecto aut laribus ferale caput, desertaque busta incolit et tumulos expulsis obtinet umbris grata deis Erebi. coetus audire silentum, nosse domos Stygias arcanaque Ditis operti...

Finally, the perfect #Halloween costume for the Latinist in your life... 😉

For #Halloween, here's the reclining skeleton mosaic from San Gregorio on the Via Appia. The Greek aphorism ΓΝΩΘΙ Σ(Ε)ΑΥΤΟΝ ('Know Thyself') is said to have been inscribed at the Temple of Apollo on Delphi (Pausanias 10.24.1). 🏺🦇 Image: Museo Nazionale Romano (Baths of Diocletian)

#OnThisDay - 30 October - in 1829 the House of Meleager, Pompeii (VI.9.2), was excavated and offered up some truly staggering painted stucco reliefs. Imagine eyes being cast on this for the first time in 1750 years. #Pompeii #Archaeology🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9595)

#OnThisDay - 30 October - in 39 BC Julia, only child of the emperor Augustus, was born. A key instrument of his dynastic designs, Julia was married three times; but was then exiled in 2 BC. #History 🏺 Image: RIC Augustus 405; Münzkabinett Berlin (18202492). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

#OnThisDay - 30 October - in 1829 the House of Meleager, Pompeii (VI.9.2), was excavated and offered up some truly staggering painted stucco reliefs. Imagine eyes being cast on this for the first time in 1750 years. #Pompeii #Archaeology🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9595)

#OnThisDay - 30 October - in 39 BC Julia, only child of the emperor Augustus, was born. A key instrument of his dynastic designs, Julia was married three times; but was then exiled in 2 BC. #History 🏺 Image: RIC Augustus 405; Münzkabinett Berlin (18202492). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

#ReliefWednesday - One of the pieces I so wanted to see when I first went to Venice a while back was the 'Tetrarchs', the statue group looted from Constantinople in 1204... But it was behind scaffolding, so this was the best shot I could get! Even so it was fabulous to get so close to it! #History 🏺

#ReliefWednesday - A rather gorgeous gold-plated silver bowl, incorporating an earlier 2nd Century BC central emblema of Athena / Minerva: ca. 1st Century AD. #Ancient #Art 🏺 Image: Berlin Altes Museum, Antikensammlung (Misc. 3779, 1). Link - id.smb.museum/object/69384...

#OnThisDay - 29 October - in AD 437 Valentinian III, the Western Roman Emperor, married Licinia Eudoxia. Eudoxia was the daughter of the Eastern Roman Emperor, Theodosius II. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC X Valentinian III 2023; ANS 1970.201.1. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

#OnThisDay - 29 October - in AD 312 Constantine undertook his formal entry to the city of Rome, following his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge the previous day. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC VII Nicomedia 170; Münzkabinett Wien (RÖ 37353). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

#ReliefWednesday - One of the pieces I so wanted to see when I first went to Venice a while back was the 'Tetrarchs', the statue group looted from Constantinople in 1204... But it was behind scaffolding, so this was the best shot I could get! Even so it was fabulous to get so close to it! #History 🏺

#ReliefWednesday - A rather gorgeous gold-plated silver bowl, incorporating an earlier 2nd Century BC central emblema of Athena / Minerva: ca. 1st Century AD. #Ancient #Art 🏺 Image: Berlin Altes Museum, Antikensammlung (Misc. 3779, 1). Link - id.smb.museum/object/69384...

#OnThisDay - 29 October - in AD 437 Valentinian III, the Western Roman Emperor, married Licinia Eudoxia. Eudoxia was the daughter of the Eastern Roman Emperor, Theodosius II. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC X Valentinian III 2023; ANS 1970.201.1. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

#OnThisDay - 29 October - in AD 312 Constantine undertook his formal entry to the city of Rome, following his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge the previous day. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: RIC VII Nicomedia 170; Münzkabinett Wien (RÖ 37353). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

#EpigraphyTuesday – Hopefully an appropriate choice as we approach the heights of 'Spooky Season', with this triple statuette of Diana-Hecate: ca. Late 2nd Century – 3rd Century AD. #Halloween #Latin 🧵🏺 Image: British Museum (1805,0703.14); CIL VI, 9089. Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

#OnThisDay - 28 October - fall two notable anniversaries of the Emperor Maxentius. In AD 306 he was recognised as emperor; in AD 312, defeated by Constantine, he died at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. #Rome 🏺 Image: RIC VI Ostia 6; BM (1864,1128.186). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Why do I never find this kind of stuff? Ok, the easy answer is I tend to dig at Castleshaw, but even so

#OnThisDay - 28 October - in AD 97 the Roman emperor Nerva adopted Marcus Ulpius Traianus (Trajan) as his heir, likely as a means of appeasing the army with whom Nerva was unpopular. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: Münzkabinett Wien (RÖ 88277); Type = RIC II Trajan 726. Link - khm.at/objektdb/det...

In 2023, I was a Visiting Fellow at @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social. Got to experience the department as a world class center for our discipline (especially Late Antiquity). University management now wants to axe their honours programme. Please consider signing and sharing this petition for support:

#EpigraphyTuesday – Hopefully an appropriate choice as we approach the heights of 'Spooky Season', with this triple statuette of Diana-Hecate: ca. Late 2nd Century – 3rd Century AD. #Halloween #Latin 🧵🏺 Image: British Museum (1805,0703.14); CIL VI, 9089. Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

#OnThisDay - 28 October - fall two notable anniversaries of the Emperor Maxentius. In AD 306 he was recognised as emperor; in AD 312, defeated by Constantine, he died at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. #Rome 🏺 Image: RIC VI Ostia 6; BM (1864,1128.186). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....