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mistressaspyce.bsky.social
Me: You named the Not-Aspyce in your novel "Eumachia?!"

Crystal: After Eumachia Pompeiia who...

Me: I sound like Uzumaki! I don't want to be some Junji Ito's cosmic horror bullshit.

Crystal: You could be the Uzumaki who is going to br Hokage.

Me: Really? 🤦‍♀️

Crystal: Believe it!!
September 16, 2026 at 2:23 AM
helenmcveigh.bsky.social
Eumachia, patron of fullers and priestess of Venus Pompeiana.

#classicstober24
October 2, 2024 at 9:33 PM
minimuslatin.bsky.social
ClassicsTober 2
ecce Eumachia, negotiatrix felix et patrona fullonum (Here's Eumachia, successful businesswoman and patron of laundry workers). Silvius operarios curiose spectat (Silvius watches the workers inquisitively)
#Classicstober2024 #fabulamurina
More info in the alt text!
Eumachia was a wealthy businesswoman and public priestess of Pompeii, who constructed a large building for the fullers' guild (wool industry - dyers, cleaners, manufacturers). In this photo, Silvius the little Latin mouse is watching the (playmobil) laundry workers who are hanging up washing and treading dirty clothes in urine to remove grease. Silvius is helpfully offering his own chamberpot as a donation to the cause. Eumachia, as a statue, is watching over the business from her pedestal. https://www.minimuslatin.co.uk/classicstober-2024.html
October 2, 2024 at 9:02 PM
vickyausten.bsky.social
So glad I suggested Eumachia just to see Matilda’s entry 😍
badancient.bsky.social Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · Oct 2
It seems #ClassicsTober was not a flash in the pan for Matilda*. Here is her second contribution, she had to tell me who Eumachia was!

*if the aim of this was to get people to engage more with ancient history, it is certainly working for her!
A piece of digital art depicting a young priestess in Ancient Pompeii. She wears a light green robe and stands in front of an erupting volcano.
October 2, 2024 at 6:49 PM
emhotep.bsky.social
Una donna imprenditrice nella #Pompei del I secolo d.C.: #Eumachia. Curiosità di un mondo troppo spesso declinato al maschile.
www.storicang.it/a/eumaquia-d...
Eumachia, la donna più potente di Pompei
Imprenditrice, sacerdotessa e benefattrice, questa influente donna lasciò la sua impronta in un grande edificio del foro
www.storicang.it
January 2, 2026 at 9:57 AM
ullamr.bsky.social
Unbelievable. Women were contributing. Sometimes directly as Eumachia in Pompeii. They should know at least the basics...
April 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
partialhistorians.bsky.social
#ClassicsTober24

Eumachia had enviable influence in C1st CE Pompeii. Daughter of a manufacturing merchant, she married into an illustrious Pompeiian family and held a position as priestess to Venus Pompeiana. Her influence extended to buildings and euergetism!

#AncientRome #Pompeii
Statue of Eumachia on display in the remains of one of her buildings in Pompeii. The inscription reads ‘EVMACHIAE L F SACERD PVBL FVLLONES’: "to Eumachia, daughter of Lucius, public priestess of Pompeian Venus, from the fullers”. Image credit: Isaac Harjo of ProWalk Tours; Screen capture and additional editing by Mary Harrsch via Wikimedia Commons.
October 2, 2024 at 8:19 AM
annaleen.bsky.social
I also included Julia Felix as a pretty major character, and Eumachia makes an appearance. But I fell in love with Murtis after reading about her in an essay by Sarah Levin-Richardson.
October 2, 2026 at 11:00 PM
corabeth.bsky.social
For #ClassicsTober Day 2: Eumachia, my little cat has decided she deserves a plinth too...
A cartoon of a black cat with green eyes on a plinth.
October 2, 2024 at 7:07 PM
heliconide.bsky.social
Day #2 of #ClassicsTober24
Eumachia
See feminaeromanae.org/Eumachia.html
🧵 Despite her humble origins, Eumachia became one of Pompeii’s most prominent citizens. She inherited a fortune from her father, a wealthy brickmaker, and married into the prestigious Numistrii Frontones family.
Marble statue of Eumachia, Building of Eumachia, Pompeii.
October 2, 2024 at 5:50 AM
pgonz8.bsky.social
Solo el buscar y preguntar ha empezado a sacar a la luz fenómenos "en femenino", más allá del rescate de los nombres. El evergetismo femenino en Roma era muy habitual y era una forma de adquirir poder por parte de las mujeres, pero se había obviado
hornito de santa eulalia, en Mérida, construido con los restos de un templo a marte, financiado por una mujer, vetilla macellum de pompeya, pagado por eumachia epígrafe de Junia Rustica, en Cartima, que pagó banquetes, obras públicas, estatuas y los impuestos atrasados de la ciudad. Teatro de Calama, pagado por Aelia Restituta
August 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
nightowlhils.bsky.social
#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober24
My first two days...
Regina of South Shields and Eumachia...as they travel through time and space...
October 2, 2024 at 11:23 AM
greekmythcomix.bsky.social
#ClassicsTober24 Day 2: EUMACHIA

Picked by Dr Victoria Austen, Classicist and Art Historian) @vickyausten.bsky.social

#ClassicsTober #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientHistoryBluesky
Picked by Dr Victoria Austen, Classicist and Art Historian) (c. 1st Century AD) Roman priestess and business entrepreneur of Pompeii. Daughter of Lucius Eumachius, a wealthy manufacturer of building supplies and amphorae. Eumachia married into the Numistrii family, one of Pompeii’s oldest and most powerful families. She became public priestess (the only political office able to be held by a woman) of the city’s patron goddess, Venus Pompeiana. She was a patron of the Guild of Fullers, giving her name to the Building of Eumachia in Pompeii’s Forum where they met; a statue and inscription labelling it as of Eumachia stand in front of the building.
October 2, 2024 at 8:15 AM
heliconide.bsky.social
I absolutely love the Online Companion to the Worlds of Roman Women! It’s such an amazing resource. Having all that valuable info in one place online makes it so accessible to everyone—truly fantastic!
feminaeromanae.org

#Eumachia #ClassicsBlueSky #Pompeii
October 2, 2024 at 5:56 AM
tonykeen58.bsky.social
#ClassicsTober24 Day 2. Eumachia. More people should know about Eumachia. When they say 'women in Rome had no agency', tell them about Eumachia, who had her name plastered all over a major building, had statues, and a grand tomb. Yes, she was rich, but she could decide what to do with her money.
A statue of a woman with her dress folded over her head, the symbol of a priestess. Her hair is coloured red. This is Eumachia, at the British Museum. Not my photo.
October 2, 2024 at 9:33 PM
badancient.bsky.social
It seems #ClassicsTober was not a flash in the pan for Matilda*. Here is her second contribution, she had to tell me who Eumachia was!

*if the aim of this was to get people to engage more with ancient history, it is certainly working for her!
A piece of digital art depicting a young priestess in Ancient Pompeii. She wears a light green robe and stands in front of an erupting volcano.
October 2, 2024 at 3:25 PM
heliconide.bsky.social
Eumachia funded a grand building in Pompeii’s Forum, dedicated to Concordia Augusta and Pietas, possibly to support her son’s political career. Its function is unclear, though it may have served as a wool warehouse or auction house, with an elegant marble entrance.
October 2, 2024 at 5:52 AM
partialhistorians.bsky.social
We’re excited for #ClassicsTober and especially thrilled for the 13th when our pick Zenobia will take centre stage!
Classics*-Tober4 ANCIENT HISTORY TAKEOVER! * Pick your favourite personages – no pressure to do them all – and make any kind of media about them – illustration, story, poetry, video, artefacts, translation, anything! – citing sources where possible! Share on the day with the # 1 Regina of South Shields 2 Eumachia 3 Thucydides 4 Cleopatra Selene 5 Pliny the Elder 6 Meleager of Gadara 7 Harmodius and Aristogeiton 8 Boudicca 9 Eritha 10 Vitruvius 11 Julia Felix 12 Homer 13 Zenobia 14 Kallistomache 15 Aesop 16 Elagabalus 17 Iphikrates 18 Tacfarinas 19 Vespasian 20 The Trung Sisters** 21 Marcus Aquilius Regulus 22 Martial 23 Corinna 24 Cleopatra Thea 25 Sappho 26 Vitellius 27 Menander I Soter 28 Crassus 29 Phryne 30 Flavius Cerialis 31 Sejanus #ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober24 *Ancient Greece and Rome and other near-Mediterranean Ancient cultures **wildcard!
October 1, 2024 at 8:04 AM
greekmythcomix.bsky.social
✨Welcome to #ClassicsTober24 ! ✨

📜ANCIENT HISTORY TAKEOVER🏛️

Read this first: greekmythcomix.com/classicstobe...

Details on each of the names chosen by our friendly Classicists, Archaeologists, Historians and Authors, to get your creativity going! greekmythcomix.com/classicstobe...
Classics*-Tober4 ANCIENT HISTORY TAKEOVER! * Pick your favourite personages – no pressure to do them all – and make any kind of media about them – illustration, story, poetry, video, artefacts, translation, anything! – citing sources where possible! Share on the day with the # 1 Regina of South Shields 2 Eumachia 3 Thucydides 4 Cleopatra Selene 5 Pliny the Elder 6 Meleager of Gadara 7 Harmodius and Aristogeiton 8 Boudicca 9 Eritha 10 Vitruvius 11 Julia Felix 12 Homer 13 Zenobia 14 Kallistomache 15 Aesop 16 Elagabalus 17 Iphikrates 18 Tacfarinas 19 Vespasian 20 The Trung Sisters** 21 Marcus Aquilius Regulus 22 Martial 23 Corinna 24 Cleopatra Thea 25 Sappho 26 Vitellius 27 Menander I Soter 28 Crassus 29 Phryne 30 Flavius Cerialis 31 Sejanus #ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober24 *Ancient Greece and Rome and other near-Mediterranean Ancient cultures **wildcard!
September 13, 2024 at 6:54 AM
ullamr.bsky.social
#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober24 Day 2: Eumachia, a woman who built a public building onto the Forum of #Pompeii. A tangible show of female agency in the Roman world!

www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpic...
Part 1      Part 2      Part 3      Part 4      Part 5      Part 6      Part 7      Plan
www.pompeiiinpictures.com
October 1, 2024 at 9:41 PM
classicalman.bsky.social
Day 2 Eumachia. A woman of humble beginnings who socially climbed to priestess, patron to the guild of fullers and civic benefactor. So her statue says, but is she just supporting her son to be elected to the office of duumvir? Don't underestimate a mother's love. #ClassicsTober24
October 3, 2024 at 1:04 PM
magisterconway.bsky.social
-que is used in 13 of them:
Camilla, Cloelia, Coronis, Eumachia, In Vineto, Iter Icari, Itinera Petri: Flammae Ducant, Legonium,* Piso Ille Poetulus, Romulus Rex, Sacri Pulli, Unguentum, Vox in Tenebris.

*not a sheltered-vocab novella, but still
May 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
racarneiro.bsky.social
Tá rolando o #ClassicsTober na gringa e hoje é dia de falar de Eumachia, uma sacerdotisa de Pompeia.
Tem um episódio no podcast Archai sobre ela. E em português. Ven conhecer um pouco a história dela:

open.spotify.com/episode/2WTh...
October 2, 2024 at 11:55 AM
melodyemcintyre.bsky.social
#ClassicsTober24

I just discovered this! So excited that Homer is on my birthday! I am a writer, not an artist, so I will be following more than posting.
Classics*-Tober4 ANCIENT HISTORY TAKEOVER! * Pick your favourite personages – no pressure to do them all – and make any kind of media about them – illustration, story, poetry, video, artefacts, translation, anything! – citing sources where possible! Share on the day with the # 1 Regina of South Shields 2 Eumachia 3 Thucydides 4 Cleopatra Selene 5 Pliny the Elder 6 Meleager of Gadara 7 Harmodius and Aristogeiton 8 Boudicca 9 Eritha 10 Vitruvius 11 Julia Felix 12 Homer 13 Zenobia 14 Kallistomache 15 Aesop 16 Elagabalus 17 Iphikrates 18 Tacfarinas 19 Vespasian 20 The Trung Sisters** 21 Marcus Aquilius Regulus 22 Martial 23 Corinna 24 Cleopatra Thea 25 Sappho 26 Vitellius 27 Menander I Soter 28 Crassus 29 Phryne 30 Flavius Cerialis 31 Sejanus #ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober24 *Ancient Greece and Rome and other near-Mediterranean Ancient cultures **wildcard
October 6, 2024 at 4:09 PM