Ides Of March Was Already An Important Day. Julius Caesar’s Assassination Just Made It More Important. 

And I have a good feeling about you Vetra. 

I have a good feeling about you, Ryder.

Apart from Cleopatra, who would probably be double majoring in linguistics and history, these are largely accurate. 

The Romans and Friends as College Majors

Caesar: Political Science

Cleopatra: Medicine

Brutus: English

Cassius: Philosophy

Antony: Kinesiology (he's a student athlete and got paid to be there)

Cicero: Law

Octavian: Psychology

Crassus: Business

Pompey: General Studies

This is cool!

In Athens, rare snow blankets Acropolis, halts vaccinations

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Heavy snowfall blanketed the Acropolis and other ancient monuments in Athens and halted COVID-19 vaccinations in the Greek capital Tuesday as the weather brought many brought many services across the country to a standstill. By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS | 16 February 2021

More details - and more photos: https://greekreporter.com/2021/02/16/winter-storms-provide-rare-glimpse-of-snow-athens/

sydney sage: im cold

adrian ivashkov: here take my jacket. actually take my soul and my heart and my lungs too and while you're at it want my skin as well? that help? love you

LOL.

*in the Tudor court*

Henry VIII: what’s going on guys

Thomas Cromwell: Henry

Thomas Cromwell: This is an intervention

Thomas Cromwell: you NEED to stop chopping peoples heads off

Henry VIII: *chopping off boleyns head* what are you talking about?

Thomas Cromwell: Henry!

Henry VIII, getting ready to chop off Cromwell’s head: what?

Thomas Cromwell: HENRY!

Fascinating insights about Floralia and Flora’s cult. 

The Floralia is a Roman festival honoring Flora, the goddess of spring, flower gardens, and crops. It was held each year from April 27th or 28th to May 3rd. She is married to Favonius, the God of the West Wind. Flora was one of the most important goddesses in the Roman pantheon, one of only 15 deities to have a cult administered by a state priesthood consisting of a married couple, who were appointed for life.

The celebration of the Floralia included theatrical performances, competitive games, and a sacrifice to Flora, presumably at her temple on the lower slope of the Aventine Hill near the Circus Maximus.

About the base image:

Flora, or the Primavera of Stabaie; 1st century CE fresco from Stabaie, Italy. Collection of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli via Wikimedia Commons (X). Image license: Public Domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer and in the United States - published anywhere (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before 1926.

Manipulation: I 'healed' some of the fresco's more obvious flaws and added the floral border.

Women’s History Month Book Recommendations

-Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter

-Radium Girls by Kate Moore

-The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

-All Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930 by Andrea Barnett

-Bessie Perri: Queen of the Bootleggers by Rose Keefe (Available as E-Book and on Absolute Crime’s website)

Historic Sit In

Just found out today that one of the first sit-ins in America happened at the Alexandria Library in 1939. This was started by a black lawyer named Samuel Wilbert Tucker, and while he lost the case, Tucker continued to fight back against segregation and was part of the NAACP.

The real tragedy. 

julius caesar has been dead for 2063 years and they still havent made a movie that depicts him as the bisexual disaster he was

I’m a bit disappointed I missed this festival. 

Antinous Festival of the Nile Inundation remix image by honorthegods.

Today, July 25, the modern cult of Antinous celebrates the festival of the Inundation of the Nile. The annual flooding of the Nile had failed in the two years preceding the death of Antinous. Famine was a threat to northern Europe, Africa, and the Near East, regions which relied on imports of grain from Egypt. The year following Antinous’ death, the inundation of the Nile was restored and even exceeded prior levels, an occurrence believed by some at the time to have been a miracle brought about by the recently deified Antinous.

Hail to you, O Nile! Hail, holy waters of life!  Mysterious is your issuing forth from the darkness, on this day whereon it is celebrated!

Hail to you, O Hapi! You bring water to the fields which Ra created! By your command, the land is fertile! Food is abundant, and the people are strong!

Hail, Antinous, deified by the Nile!  You hear the prayers of all those who call out to you, and relieve the afflictions of those in need!

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Remix elements: 

Statue of Osiris-Antinous 2nd century CE: adapted from Allan Gluck via Wikimedia Commons (X). Image license:  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Sunset on the Nile: https://www.pxfuel.com/en/free-photo-xtksu