Tiberius: Video

Posted on April 2, 2011 by

Adrian Murdoch‘s Emperors of Rome video entry on Tiberius.

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Tiberius

Posted on April 2, 2011 by

Tiberius by MrJennings

Portrait bust of Tiberius, from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

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The Elogium of Romulus

Posted on April 1, 2011 by

The Elogium of Romulus by MrJennings

Romulus Martis | filius urbem Romam | condidit et regnavit annos | duodequadraginta isque | primus dux duce hostium | Acrone rege Caeninensium | interfecto spolia opima | Iovi Feretrio consecravit | receptusque in deorum | numerum Quirinus | appellatus est.

The Elogium of Romulus
“Romulus, son of Mars, founded the city Rome and ruled for 38 years. He was the first leader to dedicate the spolia opima to Jupiter Feretrius, having killed the general of the enemy, Acro king of the Caeninenses, and having been received in the number of the gods, was called Quirinus.”

This inscription, which would have been underneath a statue of Romulus, was found in the building of Eumachia in the forum of Pompeii. This reproduction is in the Museo della Civilta Romana in Rome.

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Suovetaurilia

Posted on April 1, 2011 by
Suovetaurilia by MrJennings

A relief from Rome’s Museo della Civilta Romana, showing a Roman ritual known as a suovetaurilia: the sacrifice of a pig (sus), sheep (ovis) and a bull (taurus).

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Theater Mask

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(original photo by me)

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Rinse The Blood Off My Toga

Posted on March 27, 2011 by

Rinse The Blood Off My Toga is Wayne and Shuster’s classic parody of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar by way of Dragnet.

You can listen to (and download) the original 13 minute version from 1959 at this archive.org page.

And here’s an 8 minute version, produced for television sometime in the 1970s (if I’m not mistaken).

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Classical Culture for Vulgar Times

Posted on March 27, 2011 by

Latin Nerd Magazine

An old magazine cover that I made in 2005.

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