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Passienus

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Passienus

@passienus

Strange tales from Ancient Rome. 'These things never happened, but always are.' Sallust

Londinium

Joined November 2023

Passienus
@passienus
Oct 22, 2025
A real Roman would look at that and be like ‘where are the colours?’
Arthur MacWaters
@ArthurMacwaters
Oct 17, 2025
we could literally build this in every American city. buildings that inspire a long view of the future; a long and optimistic view of humanity we are a 250 year old country who should be dreaming for 2500 years
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Passienus
@passienus
Nov 14, 2025
Once Rome outgrew its ability to feed itself, its lack of a natural harbour became a big problem. Trajan’s hexagon was the eventual solution. Set inland to protect from storms and connected to the Tiber by canal, it served the city for 500 years.
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Passienus
@passienus
Nov 13, 2025
AD 305 Diocletian’s retirement palace
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Passienus
@passienus
Aug 28, 2025
People who love history love HBO Rome because it didn't patronise the audience. Rome wasn't all gleaming white marble 'because that's what people expect to see'. The clothes looked handmade, even senators' robes. For once, Romans seemed to actually believe in their gods.
Gareth Harney
@OptimoPrincipi
Aug 28, 2025
'I always knew if I had a time machine and visited ancient Rome I would be instantly struck by a hundred things that I’d never thought of before, and would have said ‘Of course that’s how it was!’ That imaginative leap is astonishingly difficult to make. But to toot our own horn,
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Passienus
@passienus
Nov 15, 2025
Replying to @his_valyrian
I feel like Saving Private Ryan was the start of all this. In that movie it was a way of signalling grittiness and moral seriousness, but then it got copied all over the place and it’s now just become a shorthand for ‘the past’.
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Passienus
@passienus
Nov 14, 2025
As with the men’s costuming it’s a shame we couldn’t have had at least a nod to the Late Bronze Age.
DiscussingFilm
@DiscussingFilm
Nov 14, 2025
First look at Anne Hathaway and Mia Goth in Christopher Nolan’s ‘THE ODYSSEY’ Hathaway will star as Odysseus’ wife and Goth will star as Melantho (Source: empireonline.com/movies/news/th…)
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Passienus
@passienus
Oct 24, 2025
The Temple of Vesta
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Passienus
@passienus
Apr 19, 2025
You’ve probably seen that meme about Hitler, Freud and Stalin all living in Vienna at the same time. Around AD64, the following people were in Rome: - Nero - St Paul - St Peter - Seneca - Josephus - Pliny the Elder - Martial - Vitellius - Domitian - Nerva - Trajan
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Passienus
@passienus
Nov 9, 2025
Tiber Island In 292 BC a serpent of Asclepius god of healing travelled to Rome by ship and swam ashore here (hence why it’s shaped to look like a trireme). The island’s largest building, a temple to the god, functioned as a sort of public hospital.
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Passienus
@passienus
Oct 22, 2025
Replying to @PrinceTeapot
Neoclassical can be colourful
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Passienus
@passienus
Nov 3, 2025
Trajan’s Basilica Ulpia. In this pic it looks like a particularly posh Apple Store. A Roman basilica combined the functions of shopping mall, courthouse, public library and centre of the imperial cult. A place to see and be seen.
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Passienus
@passienus
Oct 7, 2025
Octavius c********r Messages found on sling bullets from the siege of Perusia (41-40 BC). While Antony was in Egypt his wife Fulvia and brother Lucius tried to topple Octavian. The war devolved into a drawn out siege, hence all the bullets discovered by archaeologists.
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Passienus
@passienus
Mar 25, 2025
Marcus Tullius Cicero has been added to the Cataline supporters small group chat.
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Passienus
@passienus
Nov 5, 2025
43 AD Claudius parades a war elephant during the Roman conquest of Britannia.
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