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Andy Fletcher
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Roman history nerd, especially the late Republic. Currently working on an audio drama about the second triumvirate. Most of the time I'm a musician.
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Been reading a lot about the Gracchi lately, so this is a welcome coincidence
lindsaypowell.bsky.social Lindsay Powell FRHistS @lindsaypowell.bsky.social · Apr 7
"Melvyn Bragg and @BBCInOurTime guests discuss the brothers Ti. and C. Gracchus. As tribunes, they brought popular reforms to the Roman Republic at the end of the C2nd BC. The elites saw the reforms as such a threat that they had the brothers killed."
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In Our Time - The Gracchi - BBC Sounds
Why two brothers became linked to the fall of the Roman Republic and rise of the emperors.
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April 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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#RomanSiteSaturday

#Roman Bathhouse - Prestatyn, Wales.

The bath-house was built in about AD 120 and extended in about AD 150. It had a cold plunge-bath at the far end which was fed by a local spring by means of a timber aqueduct. (See Alt.)

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Situated in what is now Melyd Avenue, on the edge of the small North Wales resort town of Prestatyn, about 20 miles west of Chester, these well-preserved remains of a Roman civilian bath house were discovered on March 30th 1934 by Mr F. Gilbert Smith, a local architect, surveyor and enthusiastic amateur archaeologist. Five miles north of the main east-west highway from the legionary fortress at Deva (Chester) into North Wales. It is very likely that a Roman branch-road linked the industrial settlement at Prestatyn- a government controlled centre of lead production- with the main highway near St. Asaph, and continued south through the territories of the Deceangi in the valley of the River Clwyd, to the fort at Ruthin and the Berwyn Mountains, the realm of the Ordovices. The bath-house was built in about AD 120 and extended in about AD 150. It had a cold plunge-bath at the far end which was fed by a local spring by means of a timber aqueduct. The floors and roof were made with tiles transported all the way from the workshops of the 20th Legion at Holt near Wrexham, over 40 miles to the south-east, and may have been built by legionary masons. Some of these tiles, stamped with the legend LEG XX VV and their symbol of a wild boar https://chesterwalls.info/baths.html
April 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Ancient Rome used high tariffs to raise money too – and created other economic problems along the way.
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Ancient Rome used high tariffs to raise money too – and created other economic problems along the way
Unfortunately for the Romans, high tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic woes.
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April 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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A delightful earthenware figurine of a cat playing a harp,
1st century AD, Roman Egypt.
(Via Museum August Kestner) ##AncientBlueSky
cat playing harp 1st cent AD image Museum August Kestner
April 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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For #AncientSiteSunday

The cliff-top ruins of the 5th-century BC Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, Attica, Greece. 📷 me

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My photo shows the ruins of the cliff-top Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion in Greece. The ruins are of a classical temple built 444-440 BC, which replaced an earlier archaic temple.
April 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Very hype for @jldraycott.bsky.social new book on Fulvia. Great read. Glad to learn more about the women of the Late Republic. And Fulvia is definitely one of the most intriguing figures of the time.
March 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM