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While we’ve been podcasting about ancient Rome since 2013 (!) our love for history goes much further back in time. From a love of the ancient world on film from the epics of Hollywood, to the adventures of Indiana Jones, Hercules, and Xena. If there was a taste of the ancient world, we were there to savour it.

No one becomes a historian overnight, it’s long years of training in refining your critical thinking skills, parsing sources, comparing accounts, and learning how to draw out plausible conclusions from the fragments that remain. There’s a real pleasure in reading and thinking through the problems of the ancient world and of course we’re influenced by our context today. That awareness is part of what makes us the kind of scholars and teachers we are. Thanks for joining on our journey as we trace Rome’s history from the founding of the City!

🍇Dionysus on a panther🍇

May your #MosaicMonday be as exciting as the god Dionysus’ who is enjoying a casual saunter on a panther, who - if not tame - is resisting the urge to bite at this moment.

This mosaic can be found in the Archaeological Museum of Delos and was found in the House of Masks on Delos island. The mosaic is thought to date from c. 120–80 BCE.

⭐️The knucklebone players⭐

This #FrescoFriday we travel to Herculaneum. The scene has been labelled revealing Phoebe (the Titan) trying to pacify Leto (her daughter) and Niobe; on the ground two of the Niobids, Ileira and Aglaia play knucklebones.

The scene is thought to relate to the great wrath that fractured the friendship of Leto and Niobe. Niobe praised her own children and mocked Leto’s. Leto wasn’t having it and asked her children (Apollo and Artemis no less) to take revenge. Ileira and Aglaia play without seeming to realise the tragedy that is about to befall them.