You could argue with him, sure, but there's no point. He doesn't have considered, consistent beliefs. He'll bluster and fight on Twitter until, like all fascist pseudo-intellectuals, he wears out his welcome with the right wing crowd
You cannot take "Roman helmet guy" seriously because he simply isn't serious. He's just another ephemeral personality churned out by fascist anti-intellectualism. The pretence is freeing history from the ivory tower, but fascist thinking is inescapably incoherent, contradictory, and unproductive
It's honestly very strange to engagement bait with fake facts considering there's no shortage of accessible interesting facts and media about the ancient world. Plagiarism is clearly not a concern, so why not plagiarise something factual?
Cover of the book featuring feescoes from the Villa of Mysteries
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Digital facsimile of the "Green Man" mosaic in the Great Palace of Constantinople Mosaic Museum
Sometimes it's nice to take a break from programming and system design to make some art assets
The photo was taken underwater. It shows a partially uncovered mosaic on the ground of the sea and a fish swimming above it.
For #MosaicMonday this fantastic photo of a mosaic (and a lovely fish π) that was discovered in the submerged ruins of #Roman Baiae.
Photo: Parco Archeologico Campi Flegrei
Detail of the mosaic: the boarβs head looking down with its mouth open just enough to see the red tongue.
The mosaic boar against a white background propped up on its front legs.
View through the house from the entrance hallway across the atrium and onto the terrace which had a majestic view of the Lattari mountain range.
What a privilege to see the wild boar mosaic up close. The blood spot in the eye, the redness in the mouth and the blueish tesserae making up the diffused shadows.
Quite the welcome in the entrance hall of the recently conserved House of the Boar, #Pompeii
> XML is obviously a format created for machines to read, not for people.
This part is absolutely not true. Xml was designed from the outset to be both human and machine readable.
Post on twitter falsely identifying a modern sculpture as ancient, and from Hadrian's villa
Post on Facebook falsely identifying a modern sculpture as ancient, and from Hadrian's villa
Post on Instagram falsely identifying a modern sculpture as ancient, and from Hadrian's villa
Fun facts about antiquity make easy & popular content on social media, even when they're not true. This "Medusa from Hadrian's villa at Tivoli"? Hadrian definitely never saw it, because it isn't ancient. Sadly, there is almost no info online about this sculpture that isn't repeated clickbait lies
Lots of applications won't accept dates going back this far. Excel's date fields only work with dates from 1900 onwards. MySQL's minimum is 1000CE. Java though will let you work with dates going back (or forward) a billion years though, using a proleptic Gregorian calendar.
Well, looks like Apple uses Julian Day Numbers to store their datetimes. A value of zero in the JDN epoch system is 12pm on 1 January 4713BCE, using a proleptic Julian calendar. Pretty useful if you want to record Ea-nΔαΉ£ir's birthday in your calendar.
This is the exact opposite of what lecturers and universities need
They shouldn't have hired the lazy budget contractor
The pyramid of C. Cestius, incorporated as part of Rome's Aurelian Walls
The Arch of Severus at Ammaedara (modern HaΓ―dra in Tunisia), partially encased in blocks
Throughout Late Antiquity Roman cities became increasingly vulnerable to attack. As a result many cities built walls and defences, and often hastily reused existing structures in their new defensive works, such as C. Cestius' pyramid tomb in Rome, or (ironically) Severus' victory arch at Ammaedara.
oh no, you'll be able to unlock their phone π±
Like many of his enemies, Justinian couldn't defeat the whale. Instead, Porphyrios brought its own reign of terror to an end. The whale beached itself, and a mob of locals struck the killing blows.
Justinian daydreaming about the dreaded whale
During his long reign, Justinian fought many enemies: insurgent mobs, Vandals, Goths, Lombards, Franks, Persians, Slavs, his own paranoia, pandemic plague, and so on. Perhaps his most unusual enemy was a whale, named Porphyrios, who terrorised the waters around Constantinople for decades.
A section of damaged mosaic in the Basilica of San Lorenzo, showing the ancient artists' original underdrawings
The Basilica of San Lorenzo in Milan was built in Late Antiquity, and like many churches of the era it was richly decorated with mosaics. San Lorenzo's mosaics stand out for an unusual reason though - damage and neglect have exposed the ancient artists' original underdrawings
A mosaic from the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, showing disembodied hands
A closeup of a mosaic from the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, showing a disembodied hand
Theodoric, Gothic king of Italy, built Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna & decorated it with mosaics, incl. one showing the king and court in front of the palace. After Emperor Justinian's conquest of Italy, the Gothic king & court were erased from the mosaics, all except for a few disembodied hands
In the coming months Open Antiquities - a new library and research resource for the ancient and medieval Mediterranean - will launch. Updates and further information to follow.
