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.
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?
An image of Rome’s most solemn sacrifice, an altar dedicated by an Augustan Sevir, and a buried lightning bolt, found in the city of Juvenal www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/10/a...
An image of Rome's most solemn sacrifice, an altar dedicated by an Augustan Sevir, and a buried lightning bolt, found in the city of Juvenal
An ox, a ram and a pig, surrounded by garlands, festoons and carved ox skulls, share a single block of stone. At some point in antiquity it ended up as paving at one of the main crossroads of Aquinum,...
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October 5, 2026 at 8:00 AM
An image of Rome’s most solemn sacrifice, an altar dedicated by an Augustan Sevir, and a buried lightning bolt, found in the city of Juvenal www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/10/a...
There will be a restoration. There will come a flowering of dignified, stately, grown-up English prose that will make the Augustan Age look like a joss whedon script. I hope my daughter lives to see it
October 4, 2026 at 7:51 PM
There will be a restoration. There will come a flowering of dignified, stately, grown-up English prose that will make the Augustan Age look like a joss whedon script. I hope my daughter lives to see it
For this #MosaicMonday we look up into the spectacular presbytery vault of San Vitale in #Ravenna. To me, the Ravenna #mosaics are an astonishing collection, the last magnificent product of late antiquity. But whose empire does this shimmering C6 CE ceiling actually represent? #AncientBluesky 🏺
September 28, 2026 at 4:35 PM
For this #MosaicMonday we look up into the spectacular presbytery vault of San Vitale in #Ravenna. To me, the Ravenna #mosaics are an astonishing collection, the last magnificent product of late antiquity. But whose empire does this shimmering C6 CE ceiling actually represent? #AncientBluesky 🏺
Wait wait wait. So Augustus launches this campaign to suppress the cult of Isis, the "queen of heaven," a mother deity, while the main villain in Virgil's Augustan epic is Juno, the "queen of the gods," *the* mother deity.
September 26, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Wait wait wait. So Augustus launches this campaign to suppress the cult of Isis, the "queen of heaven," a mother deity, while the main villain in Virgil's Augustan epic is Juno, the "queen of the gods," *the* mother deity.
Thinking about how the guy they cast as Agrippa looks like Samwise Gamgee, and how this is honestly not a terrible analogy for his role in the Augustan regime
September 25, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Thinking about how the guy they cast as Agrippa looks like Samwise Gamgee, and how this is honestly not a terrible analogy for his role in the Augustan regime
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
For Augustus’ birthday 🐐 today, a reminder that anything is possible —when you have too much confidence and power. This man was born a Libra and changed his sign to Capricorn because that’s what he preferred. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
September 23, 2026 at 8:57 PM
For Augustus’ birthday 🐐 today, a reminder that anything is possible —when you have too much confidence and power. This man was born a Libra and changed his sign to Capricorn because that’s what he preferred. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
This extended quest into Augustan culture is convincing me even more that figural interpretation was a deeply Hellenistic, historically contingent cultural artifact adopted by the early church. It was not *the* way to read scripture, but a thoroughly culturally contextual enterprise.
September 23, 2026 at 12:40 PM
This extended quest into Augustan culture is convincing me even more that figural interpretation was a deeply Hellenistic, historically contingent cultural artifact adopted by the early church. It was not *the* way to read scripture, but a thoroughly culturally contextual enterprise.
It’s taken 220 pages to get to this moment. And yet, having this much background on all the values of the Augustan regime *before* he tackles the poetry of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid is powerful.
September 23, 2026 at 12:25 PM
It’s taken 220 pages to get to this moment. And yet, having this much background on all the values of the Augustan regime *before* he tackles the poetry of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid is powerful.
The ‘Tellus’ panel from the Ara Pacis is one of the most striking pieces of relief work from the Augustan era. The central divine figure has a layered iconography that has led to a variety of theories as to her identity including Ceres and Roma.
September 23, 2026 at 9:13 AM
The ‘Tellus’ panel from the Ara Pacis is one of the most striking pieces of relief work from the Augustan era. The central divine figure has a layered iconography that has led to a variety of theories as to her identity including Ceres and Roma.
21 September 19 BC
Virgil died at Brindisi, Italy.
An ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid
#History #HistoryMatters
Virgil died at Brindisi, Italy.
An ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid
#History #HistoryMatters
September 21, 2026 at 9:38 PM
21 September 19 BC
Virgil died at Brindisi, Italy.
An ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid
#History #HistoryMatters
Virgil died at Brindisi, Italy.
An ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid
#History #HistoryMatters
“Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?” (The Aeneid)
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/virgil
✒️ #Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro], Roman poet of the Augustan period, #DOTD 21 September 19 BC. #AncientRome #Poetry #Literature
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/virgil
✒️ #Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro], Roman poet of the Augustan period, #DOTD 21 September 19 BC. #AncientRome #Poetry #Literature
September 21, 2026 at 4:42 AM
“Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?” (The Aeneid)
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/virgil
✒️ #Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro], Roman poet of the Augustan period, #DOTD 21 September 19 BC. #AncientRome #Poetry #Literature
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/virgil
✒️ #Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro], Roman poet of the Augustan period, #DOTD 21 September 19 BC. #AncientRome #Poetry #Literature
Uploaded a short video yesterday on the political symbolism of The Temple of Dendur - an Augustan era Egyptian temple that has been reconstructed in NYC
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The Roman Temple in NYC
YouTube video by Tribunate
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September 18, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Uploaded a short video yesterday on the political symbolism of The Temple of Dendur - an Augustan era Egyptian temple that has been reconstructed in NYC
youtube.com/shorts/iUWSp...
youtube.com/shorts/iUWSp...
For everyone teaching Augustan Portraiture. YOU'RE WELCOME
September 16, 2026 at 2:56 PM
For everyone teaching Augustan Portraiture. YOU'RE WELCOME
armor lorica hamata and carries a caetra shield. The pattern on the shield is based off early Augustan period examples depicted on coinage (likely depicting a shield pattern from the region of Cantabria, but there isn't much I can work with from this period unfortunately), along
September 16, 2026 at 12:39 AM
armor lorica hamata and carries a caetra shield. The pattern on the shield is based off early Augustan period examples depicted on coinage (likely depicting a shield pattern from the region of Cantabria, but there isn't much I can work with from this period unfortunately), along
“Pax comes from pangere, ‘to make firm,’ and pacisi, ‘to make a pact’; it is the ‘pact’ one imposes on a conquered enemy.”
—Galinsky, Augustan Culture
—Galinsky, Augustan Culture
September 15, 2026 at 11:38 AM
“Pax comes from pangere, ‘to make firm,’ and pacisi, ‘to make a pact’; it is the ‘pact’ one imposes on a conquered enemy.”
—Galinsky, Augustan Culture
—Galinsky, Augustan Culture
Although it is Augustan in origin, the Piazzale delle Corporazioni in #OstiaAntica was enlarged and the buildings subdivided to house local and foreign shipowner’s and merchant’s collegia or guilds. The black and white mosaics date from the mid 2nd C AD.
📷 my own.
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #Rome
📷 my own.
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #Rome
September 14, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Although it is Augustan in origin, the Piazzale delle Corporazioni in #OstiaAntica was enlarged and the buildings subdivided to house local and foreign shipowner’s and merchant’s collegia or guilds. The black and white mosaics date from the mid 2nd C AD.
📷 my own.
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #Rome
📷 my own.
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #Rome
Maybe she’s into Alexander Pope. Start a podcast about Augustan poetry, meet her quite by accident but she recognises your voice and she ends up guesting on your show.
September 11, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Maybe she’s into Alexander Pope. Start a podcast about Augustan poetry, meet her quite by accident but she recognises your voice and she ends up guesting on your show.
I've learned that Heaney's poem is based on Horace's Ode 1.34, Fortune's Changes.
www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/...
www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/...
Horace (65 BC–8 BC) - The Odes: Book I
Horace’s Odes, a collection of 103 poems, remain his most celebrated achievement, exploring love, friendship, mortality, and Augustan politics. Book I.
www.poetryintranslation.com
September 11, 2026 at 1:43 PM
I've learned that Heaney's poem is based on Horace's Ode 1.34, Fortune's Changes.
www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/...
www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/...
We have added the ironwork and non-ferrous catalogues for the excavations at the Augustan legionary fortress of Haltern to our Downloads page. romanmilitaryequipment.co.uk/downloads#Re...
September 10, 2026 at 2:12 PM
We have added the ironwork and non-ferrous catalogues for the excavations at the Augustan legionary fortress of Haltern to our Downloads page. romanmilitaryequipment.co.uk/downloads#Re...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
Stop the A. GRU Name Change: Students and Augustan Residents Against a Name Change
Reasons why you should care about GRU’s name change:
1) Students, the ones funding and getting a degree from the institution, had no say in the matter
2) The purpose behind GRU’s name was to signify t...
sign.moveon.org
September 8, 2026 at 7:03 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
In 2005 in Spello, it was accidentally unearthed a huge Roman Villa of 500 mq. The whole Villa was built in two phases: the first in the Augustan Era, and the second in the high-Imperial Era. The 20 rooms are the core of the villa. Each room floor has got a mosaic showing different subjects.
September 7, 2026 at 7:30 AM
In 2005 in Spello, it was accidentally unearthed a huge Roman Villa of 500 mq. The whole Villa was built in two phases: the first in the Augustan Era, and the second in the high-Imperial Era. The 20 rooms are the core of the villa. Each room floor has got a mosaic showing different subjects.