Marble clad toilet seats in an ancient #Roman latrina in Ostia Antica - Toilets were shared spaces.
Nobody worried about sitting side by side and doing their business more publicly than we are comfortable with today.
#RomanSiteSaturday #AncientRome #Archaeology
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
Nobody worried about sitting side by side and doing their business more publicly than we are comfortable with today.
#RomanSiteSaturday #AncientRome #Archaeology
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
November 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Marble clad toilet seats in an ancient #Roman latrina in Ostia Antica - Toilets were shared spaces.
Nobody worried about sitting side by side and doing their business more publicly than we are comfortable with today.
#RomanSiteSaturday #AncientRome #Archaeology
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
Nobody worried about sitting side by side and doing their business more publicly than we are comfortable with today.
#RomanSiteSaturday #AncientRome #Archaeology
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
A young woman is seeing red often these days, and it’s not because of her favorite color —she’s been chosen by the goddesses of ancient Rome to be the last keeper of the eternal flame. #YA #paranormal #thriller #Supernatural #VestalVirgins #ancientrome #BookSky #historical amzn.to/1VGburS
November 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A young woman is seeing red often these days, and it’s not because of her favorite color —she’s been chosen by the goddesses of ancient Rome to be the last keeper of the eternal flame. #YA #paranormal #thriller #Supernatural #VestalVirgins #ancientrome #BookSky #historical amzn.to/1VGburS
Bellerophon was a Corinthian hero, the son of Poseidon and Eurynome, a Megarian princess who became a queen of Corinth. Bellerophon was known as one of the greatest hero and slayer of monsters, before the days of Heracles.
#AncientRome #AncientGreece
#AncientRome #AncientGreece
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Bellerophon was a Corinthian hero, the son of Poseidon and Eurynome, a Megarian princess who became a queen of Corinth. Bellerophon was known as one of the greatest hero and slayer of monsters, before the days of Heracles.
#AncientRome #AncientGreece
#AncientRome #AncientGreece
At the AD 3rd C Baths of Caracalla scraps of floor mosaics lean casually against the ancient walls.
#AncientRome #MosaicMonday #Archaeology
📸 my own, Rome.
#AncientRome #MosaicMonday #Archaeology
📸 my own, Rome.
November 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
At the AD 3rd C Baths of Caracalla scraps of floor mosaics lean casually against the ancient walls.
#AncientRome #MosaicMonday #Archaeology
📸 my own, Rome.
#AncientRome #MosaicMonday #Archaeology
📸 my own, Rome.
From Denver to D.C. to ancient Rome, workers rise up, walk out, and win respect. Three stories of strikes and solidarity on this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour. Listen at 1p on WPFW 89.3FM
#LaborHeritagePowerHour #WPFW #LaborHistory #AncientRome #CollectiveAction #SolidarityForever #WorkersUnite
#LaborHeritagePowerHour #WPFW #LaborHistory #AncientRome #CollectiveAction #SolidarityForever #WorkersUnite
November 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
From Denver to D.C. to ancient Rome, workers rise up, walk out, and win respect. Three stories of strikes and solidarity on this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour. Listen at 1p on WPFW 89.3FM
#LaborHeritagePowerHour #WPFW #LaborHistory #AncientRome #CollectiveAction #SolidarityForever #WorkersUnite
#LaborHeritagePowerHour #WPFW #LaborHistory #AncientRome #CollectiveAction #SolidarityForever #WorkersUnite
✨New Episode - The Gallic Sack of Rome - Part 1✨
We’re about to embark on a stunning period of Rome’s history in the middle Republic. We begin with some of the important details from the latter part of 391 BCE which will have flow on effects for 390 BCE!
#AncientRome #Podcast
We’re about to embark on a stunning period of Rome’s history in the middle Republic. We begin with some of the important details from the latter part of 391 BCE which will have flow on effects for 390 BCE!
#AncientRome #Podcast
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
✨New Episode - The Gallic Sack of Rome - Part 1✨
We’re about to embark on a stunning period of Rome’s history in the middle Republic. We begin with some of the important details from the latter part of 391 BCE which will have flow on effects for 390 BCE!
#AncientRome #Podcast
We’re about to embark on a stunning period of Rome’s history in the middle Republic. We begin with some of the important details from the latter part of 391 BCE which will have flow on effects for 390 BCE!
#AncientRome #Podcast
Today, Erryn Lee is sharing an excerpt from her novel, What Remains.
thewhisperingbookworm.blogspot.com/2025/11/on-t...
#WhatRemains #ErrynLee #HistoricalFiction #Timeslip #DualTimeline #HistoricalThriller #WomenInHistory #AncientRome #Vesuvius #blogtour
@cathiedunn.bsky.social
thewhisperingbookworm.blogspot.com/2025/11/on-t...
#WhatRemains #ErrynLee #HistoricalFiction #Timeslip #DualTimeline #HistoricalThriller #WomenInHistory #AncientRome #Vesuvius #blogtour
@cathiedunn.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Today, Erryn Lee is sharing an excerpt from her novel, What Remains.
thewhisperingbookworm.blogspot.com/2025/11/on-t...
#WhatRemains #ErrynLee #HistoricalFiction #Timeslip #DualTimeline #HistoricalThriller #WomenInHistory #AncientRome #Vesuvius #blogtour
@cathiedunn.bsky.social
thewhisperingbookworm.blogspot.com/2025/11/on-t...
#WhatRemains #ErrynLee #HistoricalFiction #Timeslip #DualTimeline #HistoricalThriller #WomenInHistory #AncientRome #Vesuvius #blogtour
@cathiedunn.bsky.social
Watch this space! There’s a brand new episode coming your way later this week. Could the Romans be anymore entangled with the Gauls? Of course they could!
#AncientRome
#AncientRome
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Watch this space! There’s a brand new episode coming your way later this week. Could the Romans be anymore entangled with the Gauls? Of course they could!
#AncientRome
#AncientRome
Welcome to Day 2 of our blog tour for
༻*·What Remains·*༺
by Erryn Lee!
Check out today's fab tour stops, all sharing intriguing excerpts from this gripping tale!
thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2025/10/blog...
#HistoricalFiction #dualtimeline #AncientRome #BookSky
@histficcompany.bsky.social
༻*·What Remains·*༺
by Erryn Lee!
Check out today's fab tour stops, all sharing intriguing excerpts from this gripping tale!
thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2025/10/blog...
#HistoricalFiction #dualtimeline #AncientRome #BookSky
@histficcompany.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Welcome to Day 2 of our blog tour for
༻*·What Remains·*༺
by Erryn Lee!
Check out today's fab tour stops, all sharing intriguing excerpts from this gripping tale!
thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2025/10/blog...
#HistoricalFiction #dualtimeline #AncientRome #BookSky
@histficcompany.bsky.social
༻*·What Remains·*༺
by Erryn Lee!
Check out today's fab tour stops, all sharing intriguing excerpts from this gripping tale!
thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2025/10/blog...
#HistoricalFiction #dualtimeline #AncientRome #BookSky
@histficcompany.bsky.social
3/
Palmyrene Text continued:
…in the month of Sebat (February) in the year 547 (of the Seleucid epoch, 235-236 AD).
#EpigraphyTuesday #AncientRome #Archaeology
Palmyrene Text continued:
…in the month of Sebat (February) in the year 547 (of the Seleucid epoch, 235-236 AD).
#EpigraphyTuesday #AncientRome #Archaeology
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
3/
Palmyrene Text continued:
…in the month of Sebat (February) in the year 547 (of the Seleucid epoch, 235-236 AD).
#EpigraphyTuesday #AncientRome #Archaeology
Palmyrene Text continued:
…in the month of Sebat (February) in the year 547 (of the Seleucid epoch, 235-236 AD).
#EpigraphyTuesday #AncientRome #Archaeology
How far would you go for ambition, power, honor, and love?
SON OF ROME: mybook.to/0HMl
SECOND IN COMMAND: mybook.to/FQ9CeKf
SOLDIER OF FATE: mybook.to/5bIc
brookallenauthor.com
#BlueSkyAuthors #Rome #RomanHistory #Roman #AncientWorld #AncientHistory #AncientRome #Classics
SON OF ROME: mybook.to/0HMl
SECOND IN COMMAND: mybook.to/FQ9CeKf
SOLDIER OF FATE: mybook.to/5bIc
brookallenauthor.com
#BlueSkyAuthors #Rome #RomanHistory #Roman #AncientWorld #AncientHistory #AncientRome #Classics
November 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
How far would you go for ambition, power, honor, and love?
SON OF ROME: mybook.to/0HMl
SECOND IN COMMAND: mybook.to/FQ9CeKf
SOLDIER OF FATE: mybook.to/5bIc
brookallenauthor.com
#BlueSkyAuthors #Rome #RomanHistory #Roman #AncientWorld #AncientHistory #AncientRome #Classics
SON OF ROME: mybook.to/0HMl
SECOND IN COMMAND: mybook.to/FQ9CeKf
SOLDIER OF FATE: mybook.to/5bIc
brookallenauthor.com
#BlueSkyAuthors #Rome #RomanHistory #Roman #AncientWorld #AncientHistory #AncientRome #Classics
The Spinario is a bronze statue of a boy examining a thorn embedded in the sole of his foot.
Dated 50-1 BC.
His first hint that he is mortal? A lesson that youth and beauty are temporary? Or that life involves pain?
inv. S 1186, Capitoline Museums.
📸 my own.
#AncientRome #Archaeology
#Sculpture
Dated 50-1 BC.
His first hint that he is mortal? A lesson that youth and beauty are temporary? Or that life involves pain?
inv. S 1186, Capitoline Museums.
📸 my own.
#AncientRome #Archaeology
#Sculpture
November 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The Spinario is a bronze statue of a boy examining a thorn embedded in the sole of his foot.
Dated 50-1 BC.
His first hint that he is mortal? A lesson that youth and beauty are temporary? Or that life involves pain?
inv. S 1186, Capitoline Museums.
📸 my own.
#AncientRome #Archaeology
#Sculpture
Dated 50-1 BC.
His first hint that he is mortal? A lesson that youth and beauty are temporary? Or that life involves pain?
inv. S 1186, Capitoline Museums.
📸 my own.
#AncientRome #Archaeology
#Sculpture
Kim Bowes' Surviving Rome is a radical revision—and worker’s-eye view—of everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economy.
Now available (6 Jan UK pub). Order your copy today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#Rome #AncientRome #AncientHistory #History #Archaeology
Now available (6 Jan UK pub). Order your copy today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#Rome #AncientRome #AncientHistory #History #Archaeology
November 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Kim Bowes' Surviving Rome is a radical revision—and worker’s-eye view—of everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economy.
Now available (6 Jan UK pub). Order your copy today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#Rome #AncientRome #AncientHistory #History #Archaeology
Now available (6 Jan UK pub). Order your copy today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#Rome #AncientRome #AncientHistory #History #Archaeology
The Imperator by Jonathan Lacher
A ruthless ruler recounts his rise and fall.
theonesbehindthebookshelves.substack.com/p/imperator-...
#poetry #writingcommunity #poems #ancientrome #juliuscaesar #history #indieauthor
A ruthless ruler recounts his rise and fall.
theonesbehindthebookshelves.substack.com/p/imperator-...
#poetry #writingcommunity #poems #ancientrome #juliuscaesar #history #indieauthor
Imperator. Comfort of surreality
POETRY November 2025
theonesbehindthebookshelves.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The Imperator by Jonathan Lacher
A ruthless ruler recounts his rise and fall.
theonesbehindthebookshelves.substack.com/p/imperator-...
#poetry #writingcommunity #poems #ancientrome #juliuscaesar #history #indieauthor
A ruthless ruler recounts his rise and fall.
theonesbehindthebookshelves.substack.com/p/imperator-...
#poetry #writingcommunity #poems #ancientrome #juliuscaesar #history #indieauthor
These frescoes decorate a room in the house of Vigna Guidi, c. AD 130s. It was partly destroyed & buried, like the whole neighborhood adjacent to Porta Capena, to make way for the great complex of the Baths of Caracalla, built above it from 212 AD on.
#FrescoFriday #FindsFriday #AncientRome
📸 my own
#FrescoFriday #FindsFriday #AncientRome
📸 my own
October 31, 2025 at 9:45 AM
These frescoes decorate a room in the house of Vigna Guidi, c. AD 130s. It was partly destroyed & buried, like the whole neighborhood adjacent to Porta Capena, to make way for the great complex of the Baths of Caracalla, built above it from 212 AD on.
#FrescoFriday #FindsFriday #AncientRome
📸 my own
#FrescoFriday #FindsFriday #AncientRome
📸 my own
Is it even podcasting about ancient Rome if there hasn’t been any swordplay or silly shenanigans?
#AncientRome #History
#AncientRome #History
October 30, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Is it even podcasting about ancient Rome if there hasn’t been any swordplay or silly shenanigans?
#AncientRome #History
#AncientRome #History
This afternoon I’m listening to ghost stories from the ancient world.
#AncientRome combines well with #Halloween spooky stories.
#AncientRome combines well with #Halloween spooky stories.
What better for halloween than a good old Roman ghost story? Listen here! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
Roman Ghostbusters
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 30/10/2025 · 38m
podcasts.apple.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This afternoon I’m listening to ghost stories from the ancient world.
#AncientRome combines well with #Halloween spooky stories.
#AncientRome combines well with #Halloween spooky stories.
October 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A marble monumental Roman Sarcophagus, AD 200-250.
Found in 1582 in the mausoleum, Monte del Grano on the Via Tuscolana. The deceased recline on a couch (the lid). Sarcophagus shows scenes from the life of Achilles.
#TombTuesday
#AncientRome
#Archaeology
📸 my own, Capitoline Museums, #Rome.
Found in 1582 in the mausoleum, Monte del Grano on the Via Tuscolana. The deceased recline on a couch (the lid). Sarcophagus shows scenes from the life of Achilles.
#TombTuesday
#AncientRome
#Archaeology
📸 my own, Capitoline Museums, #Rome.
October 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A marble monumental Roman Sarcophagus, AD 200-250.
Found in 1582 in the mausoleum, Monte del Grano on the Via Tuscolana. The deceased recline on a couch (the lid). Sarcophagus shows scenes from the life of Achilles.
#TombTuesday
#AncientRome
#Archaeology
📸 my own, Capitoline Museums, #Rome.
Found in 1582 in the mausoleum, Monte del Grano on the Via Tuscolana. The deceased recline on a couch (the lid). Sarcophagus shows scenes from the life of Achilles.
#TombTuesday
#AncientRome
#Archaeology
📸 my own, Capitoline Museums, #Rome.
A statue base dedicated to Emperor Hadrian in AD 136.
This monument is significant because it lists on the sides 5 of the 14 Augustan districts and names the magistrates.
In the 15th C it was displayed on the Capitoline Hill showing the Renaissance interest in #AncientRome.
#EpigraphyTuesday
My 📸
This monument is significant because it lists on the sides 5 of the 14 Augustan districts and names the magistrates.
In the 15th C it was displayed on the Capitoline Hill showing the Renaissance interest in #AncientRome.
#EpigraphyTuesday
My 📸
October 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
A statue base dedicated to Emperor Hadrian in AD 136.
This monument is significant because it lists on the sides 5 of the 14 Augustan districts and names the magistrates.
In the 15th C it was displayed on the Capitoline Hill showing the Renaissance interest in #AncientRome.
#EpigraphyTuesday
My 📸
This monument is significant because it lists on the sides 5 of the 14 Augustan districts and names the magistrates.
In the 15th C it was displayed on the Capitoline Hill showing the Renaissance interest in #AncientRome.
#EpigraphyTuesday
My 📸
Either taking a killing blow or losing the favour of the crowd, to be a gladiator was not a career many chose.
The detail from this mosaic shows two figures listed as θ - a reference to Thanatos meaning they were dead.
#AncientRome
The detail from this mosaic shows two figures listed as θ - a reference to Thanatos meaning they were dead.
#AncientRome
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Either taking a killing blow or losing the favour of the crowd, to be a gladiator was not a career many chose.
The detail from this mosaic shows two figures listed as θ - a reference to Thanatos meaning they were dead.
#AncientRome
The detail from this mosaic shows two figures listed as θ - a reference to Thanatos meaning they were dead.
#AncientRome
✨We are in a documentary - and
it's out now! ✨
We’re part of the National Geographic documentary, “Gladiators: Warriors of the Ancient World”! Each episode explores the world of the arena by focusing on the story of a particular gladiator, like SPARTACUS! Catch it if you can 🥳
#AncientRome
it's out now! ✨
We’re part of the National Geographic documentary, “Gladiators: Warriors of the Ancient World”! Each episode explores the world of the arena by focusing on the story of a particular gladiator, like SPARTACUS! Catch it if you can 🥳
#AncientRome
October 26, 2025 at 6:53 AM
✨We are in a documentary - and
it's out now! ✨
We’re part of the National Geographic documentary, “Gladiators: Warriors of the Ancient World”! Each episode explores the world of the arena by focusing on the story of a particular gladiator, like SPARTACUS! Catch it if you can 🥳
#AncientRome
it's out now! ✨
We’re part of the National Geographic documentary, “Gladiators: Warriors of the Ancient World”! Each episode explores the world of the arena by focusing on the story of a particular gladiator, like SPARTACUS! Catch it if you can 🥳
#AncientRome
I could not stand here without thinking about those who stood here long ago.
Human terror still leaches from the underworld beneath the #Colosseum floor.
We tourists stand on solid ground that was once sand to soak up blood.
📸 my own
#Colosseum #AncientRome #RomanSiteSaturday
Human terror still leaches from the underworld beneath the #Colosseum floor.
We tourists stand on solid ground that was once sand to soak up blood.
📸 my own
#Colosseum #AncientRome #RomanSiteSaturday
October 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I could not stand here without thinking about those who stood here long ago.
Human terror still leaches from the underworld beneath the #Colosseum floor.
We tourists stand on solid ground that was once sand to soak up blood.
📸 my own
#Colosseum #AncientRome #RomanSiteSaturday
Human terror still leaches from the underworld beneath the #Colosseum floor.
We tourists stand on solid ground that was once sand to soak up blood.
📸 my own
#Colosseum #AncientRome #RomanSiteSaturday
For #RomanSiteSaturday here is the Flavian amphitheatre, aka the #Colosseum, #Rome. Emperor Vespasian initiated the project. His son and heir, Titus, finished the building and oversaw the opening.
Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant (Suetonius)
📸 my own.
#AncientRome #Archaeology #RomanEmpire
Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant (Suetonius)
📸 my own.
#AncientRome #Archaeology #RomanEmpire
October 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
For #RomanSiteSaturday here is the Flavian amphitheatre, aka the #Colosseum, #Rome. Emperor Vespasian initiated the project. His son and heir, Titus, finished the building and oversaw the opening.
Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant (Suetonius)
📸 my own.
#AncientRome #Archaeology #RomanEmpire
Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant (Suetonius)
📸 my own.
#AncientRome #Archaeology #RomanEmpire