I mean, under Augustan marriage legislation with three you're able to inherit from anyone not just people who are cognates to the seventh degree, so that's a plus?
October 5, 2026 at 2:44 PM
I mean, under Augustan marriage legislation with three you're able to inherit from anyone not just people who are cognates to the seventh degree, so that's a plus?
Hell, if you buy Augustan era propaganda, Romans are descended from Turkish immigrants anyway
August 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Hell, if you buy Augustan era propaganda, Romans are descended from Turkish immigrants anyway
#ArtefactSunday - The Minerva Bowl, a silver cup from the Hildesheim Treasure, the largest collection of Roman silver found outside the Roman provinces, 1st century BC - 1st century AD (Augustan period).
Altes Museum, Berlin.
Altes Museum, Berlin.
August 23, 2026 at 5:07 PM
#ArtefactSunday - The Minerva Bowl, a silver cup from the Hildesheim Treasure, the largest collection of Roman silver found outside the Roman provinces, 1st century BC - 1st century AD (Augustan period).
Altes Museum, Berlin.
Altes Museum, Berlin.
For those of us who use the Augustan calendar, there's still time.
January 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
For those of us who use the Augustan calendar, there's still time.
#RomanSiteSaturday
Remains of the Pons Aemilius (179 BC), known as the Ponte Rotto (the 'Broken Bridge'). The stone facing belongs to a reconstruction of the Augustan age.
#Architecture #History
Remains of the Pons Aemilius (179 BC), known as the Ponte Rotto (the 'Broken Bridge'). The stone facing belongs to a reconstruction of the Augustan age.
#Architecture #History
August 1, 2026 at 2:47 PM
#RomanSiteSaturday
Remains of the Pons Aemilius (179 BC), known as the Ponte Rotto (the 'Broken Bridge'). The stone facing belongs to a reconstruction of the Augustan age.
#Architecture #History
Remains of the Pons Aemilius (179 BC), known as the Ponte Rotto (the 'Broken Bridge'). The stone facing belongs to a reconstruction of the Augustan age.
#Architecture #History
#ReliefWednesday
The armed Curites beat their shields to prevent Cronus from hearing the cries of the infant Zeus. Central #Zeus feeding on the milk of Amaltheia. Who in one version of the #myth was a Nymph.
(Roman Augustan era relief, Louvre)
#Art #History
The armed Curites beat their shields to prevent Cronus from hearing the cries of the infant Zeus. Central #Zeus feeding on the milk of Amaltheia. Who in one version of the #myth was a Nymph.
(Roman Augustan era relief, Louvre)
#Art #History
August 19, 2026 at 9:36 PM
#ReliefWednesday
The armed Curites beat their shields to prevent Cronus from hearing the cries of the infant Zeus. Central #Zeus feeding on the milk of Amaltheia. Who in one version of the #myth was a Nymph.
(Roman Augustan era relief, Louvre)
#Art #History
The armed Curites beat their shields to prevent Cronus from hearing the cries of the infant Zeus. Central #Zeus feeding on the milk of Amaltheia. Who in one version of the #myth was a Nymph.
(Roman Augustan era relief, Louvre)
#Art #History
Mediterranean Sea: Augustan Rome :: The Great Lakes : The Midwest
October 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Mediterranean Sea: Augustan Rome :: The Great Lakes : The Midwest
Ok, Aeneid discourse time because the statement below is correct, but also, I think, significantly incomplete in ways that understate how good Vergil is as an author (he is very good).
Aeneas is supposed to be a self-righteous prig because Vergil is deeply ambivalent about the Augustan project.
Aeneas is supposed to be a self-righteous prig because Vergil is deeply ambivalent about the Augustan project.
Virgil wrote FanFic.
And while parts of his epic are very good, Aeneas himself comes across as a self-righteous prig.
#ISaidWhatISaid
And while parts of his epic are very good, Aeneas himself comes across as a self-righteous prig.
#ISaidWhatISaid
September 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Ok, Aeneid discourse time because the statement below is correct, but also, I think, significantly incomplete in ways that understate how good Vergil is as an author (he is very good).
Aeneas is supposed to be a self-righteous prig because Vergil is deeply ambivalent about the Augustan project.
Aeneas is supposed to be a self-righteous prig because Vergil is deeply ambivalent about the Augustan project.
Kicked off this year's teaching with the first lecture of my new course on heritage in Rome, plus seminars featuring this fabulous interactive map of the Augustan city: www.digitalaugustanrome.org
Digital Augustan Rome
Digital Augustan Rome is a long term mapping project that is prepared to provide a worthy digital successor to the published book and maps of Mapping Augustan Rome created in 2002.
www.digitalaugustanrome.org
October 1, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Kicked off this year's teaching with the first lecture of my new course on heritage in Rome, plus seminars featuring this fabulous interactive map of the Augustan city: www.digitalaugustanrome.org
Trajan, Marcus Aurelius. Augustan propaganda was all about how Augustus was a pater patriae, princeps and primus inter pares.
October 5, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Trajan, Marcus Aurelius. Augustan propaganda was all about how Augustus was a pater patriae, princeps and primus inter pares.
Virgil stopping each book of the Aeneid for some sudden Augustan propaganda was just his ancient version of ad breaks
November 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Virgil stopping each book of the Aeneid for some sudden Augustan propaganda was just his ancient version of ad breaks
1st C. BCE. Female Winged Victory holding a helmet. Delicate stucco niche relief unearthed in 1879 inside a Roman Augustan Period noble’s villa. Museo Nazionale Romano.
September 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
1st C. BCE. Female Winged Victory holding a helmet. Delicate stucco niche relief unearthed in 1879 inside a Roman Augustan Period noble’s villa. Museo Nazionale Romano.
Living in Augustan Rome except without an Augustus.
Conservatives can't devise a policy that only helps married White people, so they never actually do it. It was the same problem with marriage promotion since the 1990s (same think tanks, same speeches, same lack of real policy.) If you want policy ideas, check Germany circa 1937.
The Quest to ‘Make America Fertile Again’ Stalls Under Trump
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Living in Augustan Rome except without an Augustus.
Today's love from the Roman world...the caves of Sejanus! An access tunnel built through a mountain to an Augustan villa near Naples! Built by hand!!!
January 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Today's love from the Roman world...the caves of Sejanus! An access tunnel built through a mountain to an Augustan villa near Naples! Built by hand!!!
'Emperor Caesar Nerva #Trajan Augustus.
Conqueror of #Germany, son of the #God #Nerva, high priest, with tribunician power, father of his country, consul for the third time the 2nd Augustan #Legion dedicates this.'
#RomanBritain #Isca #Caerleon #Archaeology #EpigraphyTuesday
Conqueror of #Germany, son of the #God #Nerva, high priest, with tribunician power, father of his country, consul for the third time the 2nd Augustan #Legion dedicates this.'
#RomanBritain #Isca #Caerleon #Archaeology #EpigraphyTuesday
December 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
'Emperor Caesar Nerva #Trajan Augustus.
Conqueror of #Germany, son of the #God #Nerva, high priest, with tribunician power, father of his country, consul for the third time the 2nd Augustan #Legion dedicates this.'
#RomanBritain #Isca #Caerleon #Archaeology #EpigraphyTuesday
Conqueror of #Germany, son of the #God #Nerva, high priest, with tribunician power, father of his country, consul for the third time the 2nd Augustan #Legion dedicates this.'
#RomanBritain #Isca #Caerleon #Archaeology #EpigraphyTuesday
And Vergil produces a poem that is brilliantly ambiguous: it lays on Augustan propaganda thick - at points so thick as to verge on satire - while presenting a deeply ambivalent view of the protagonist and even of Rome's destiny.
This is a poem where the Carthaginian has the right of it!
This is a poem where the Carthaginian has the right of it!
September 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
And Vergil produces a poem that is brilliantly ambiguous: it lays on Augustan propaganda thick - at points so thick as to verge on satire - while presenting a deeply ambivalent view of the protagonist and even of Rome's destiny.
This is a poem where the Carthaginian has the right of it!
This is a poem where the Carthaginian has the right of it!
And he's writing that ambiguous, conflicted self-reflection in a vehicle that *also* has to double as Augustan propaganda if Vergil wants to remain, y'know, alive.
(Livy seems to have a similar problem; lot of fratricide and rape in Livy bk 1, huh? I wonder why, what he's saying about Rome...)
(Livy seems to have a similar problem; lot of fratricide and rape in Livy bk 1, huh? I wonder why, what he's saying about Rome...)
September 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
And he's writing that ambiguous, conflicted self-reflection in a vehicle that *also* has to double as Augustan propaganda if Vergil wants to remain, y'know, alive.
(Livy seems to have a similar problem; lot of fratricide and rape in Livy bk 1, huh? I wonder why, what he's saying about Rome...)
(Livy seems to have a similar problem; lot of fratricide and rape in Livy bk 1, huh? I wonder why, what he's saying about Rome...)
An altar to Diana and Apollo which was dedicated by Marcus Cocceius Firmus - a Centurion of the Second Augustan Legion. It was found at Auchendavy Roman Fort in East Dunbartonshire. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanScotland #HunterianMuseum
February 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM
An altar to Diana and Apollo which was dedicated by Marcus Cocceius Firmus - a Centurion of the Second Augustan Legion. It was found at Auchendavy Roman Fort in East Dunbartonshire. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanScotland #HunterianMuseum
Agrippa, the Luigi of Augustan Rome
July 12, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Agrippa, the Luigi of Augustan Rome
Burlesquing the Augustan era’s fixation on classical tradition, John Gay's Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716) renders practical advice for perambulating the capital into oftentimes absurd, hexametric verse: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/gay-trivia
September 24, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Burlesquing the Augustan era’s fixation on classical tradition, John Gay's Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716) renders practical advice for perambulating the capital into oftentimes absurd, hexametric verse: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/gay-trivia
The numbers 1-16 may be significant: Augustan currency was partially binary, and the "as" (the common "spending" coin you'd use to e.g. buy a drink or a bite to eat) was 1/16th of a denarius. The numbers on the tokens may just represent a redemption rate in ases.
November 27, 2024 at 3:36 PM
The numbers 1-16 may be significant: Augustan currency was partially binary, and the "as" (the common "spending" coin you'd use to e.g. buy a drink or a bite to eat) was 1/16th of a denarius. The numbers on the tokens may just represent a redemption rate in ases.
Burlesquing the Augustan era’s fixation on classical tradition, John Gay's Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716) renders practical advice for perambulating the capital into oftentimes absurd, hexametric verse: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/gay-trivia
November 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Burlesquing the Augustan era’s fixation on classical tradition, John Gay's Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716) renders practical advice for perambulating the capital into oftentimes absurd, hexametric verse: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/gay-trivia
Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy; Roman; Augustan period; 27 B.C.-A.D. 14. In the background, wall paintings from a cubiculum nocturnum (bedroom); Roman; Late Republican; ca 50-40 A.D. At the Met tonight.
July 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Bronze statue of an aristocratic boy; Roman; Augustan period; 27 B.C.-A.D. 14. In the background, wall paintings from a cubiculum nocturnum (bedroom); Roman; Late Republican; ca 50-40 A.D. At the Met tonight.
#RomanSiteSaturday
1st C Augustan theatre in Orange, Vaucluse, may be best preserved example in Europe: vast stage wall + external façade survived as reused in situ in later buildings.
20th C excavations exposed further adjacent structures.
World Heritage Site
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1st C Augustan theatre in Orange, Vaucluse, may be best preserved example in Europe: vast stage wall + external façade survived as reused in situ in later buildings.
20th C excavations exposed further adjacent structures.
World Heritage Site
click/tap for scale
January 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
#RomanSiteSaturday
1st C Augustan theatre in Orange, Vaucluse, may be best preserved example in Europe: vast stage wall + external façade survived as reused in situ in later buildings.
20th C excavations exposed further adjacent structures.
World Heritage Site
click/tap for scale
1st C Augustan theatre in Orange, Vaucluse, may be best preserved example in Europe: vast stage wall + external façade survived as reused in situ in later buildings.
20th C excavations exposed further adjacent structures.
World Heritage Site
click/tap for scale