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Velite Aquila

@veliteaquila.bsky.social

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Artist and Roman Republic fan. Fresco lover. Commissions open. https://artistree.io/veliteaquila https://discord.gg/qW6PEARRup

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Velite Aquila @veliteaquila.bsky.social · Feb 10

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Velite Aquila @veliteaquila.bsky.social · 3m

The Hoplite Aristion

Velite Aquila @veliteaquila.bsky.social · 37m

Campanian so hard in WWII so maybe we'd have more Campanian fresco for me to obsess over.

Velite Aquila @veliteaquila.bsky.social · 37m

"Why don't you like the Lucanians?"
I get unreasonably annoyed anytime I look up the Samnites and get anything Lucanian because people either can't tell them apart or think the distinction doesn't matter. Not really the Lucanians fault though, they should not have bombed

Velite Aquila @veliteaquila.bsky.social · 37m

I may not like the Lucanians, but they without a doubt left the best evidence for ancient Italian martial culture behind

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Velite Aquila @veliteaquila.bsky.social · 1d

Two brothers serving as Centurions, 2nd Punic war

Velite Aquila @veliteaquila.bsky.social · 1d

"The king was much taken aback and said that he pardoned him for speaking so haughtily for three reasons, first because he was young and inexperienced in affairs, next because he was the handsomest man of his time — and this was a fact — and chiefly because he was a Roman"

-Polybius 16.34.8

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Velite Aquila @veliteaquila.bsky.social · 3d

We've got a ton of research channels and a number of projects going on!
discord.gg/qW6PEARRup

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Velite Aquila @veliteaquila.bsky.social · 3d

Ionian/Lycian hoplite and light infantryman based off Karaburum tomb II frescoes.

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Velite Aquila @veliteaquila.bsky.social · 4d

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Velite Aquila @veliteaquila.bsky.social · 4d

Lycian charioteer based off the Kizibel Elmali tomb frescoes, late 6th century B.C.

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Velite Aquila @veliteaquila.bsky.social · 5d

"Another such victory, and we are undone". King Pyrrhus in the aftermath of the Battle of Asculum, 279 B.C.

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Velite Aquila @veliteaquila.bsky.social · 5d

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Tomba Arieti

Velite Aquila @veliteaquila.bsky.social · 5d

Gaesatae warrior at the battle of Telamon, 225 B.C

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Velite Aquila @veliteaquila.bsky.social · 7d

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Eagle warrior statue found in the House of Eagles, Florentine codex.

Velite Aquila @veliteaquila.bsky.social · 20d

Mexica Cuāuhtli warrior

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Velite Aquila @veliteaquila.bsky.social · 20d

I had a brainfart typing this I'm so sorry

Velite Aquila @veliteaquila.bsky.social · 20d

I made a few sprite skirmishes using the allied and enemy sprites from tge Miniclip Commando games,overlayed on the extracted from the Miniclip Commando games