Lindsay Powell FRHistS

Was Hadrian's Wall an expensive folly? - Professor David Breeze YouTube video by Current Archaeology

Expert David Breeze explains what is known and unknown about #HadriansWall: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xglC...

Thought-proving idea for how #HadriansWall looked: the Wall as a barrier without crenels and merlons or walkway, with multi-storey roofed turrets like the watchtowers on the 'limes' in Germania and Raetia. Illustration by Rocío Espín Piñar. #RomanFortThursday

Thought-proving idea for how #HadriansWall looked: the Wall as a barrier without crenels and merlons or walkway, and with multi-storey roofed turrets like the watchtowers on the 'limes' in Germania and Raetia.
Illustration by Rocío Espín Piñar.
#RomanFortThursday

'Vitellius traîné dans les rues de Rome par la populace (Vitellius Dragged Through The Streets By The People Of Rome)', a painting by Georges Rochegrosse in 1883. Image: Public Domain.

'Vitellius traîné dans les rues de Rome par la populace (Vitellius Dragged Through The Streets By The People Of Rome)', a painting by Georges Rochegrosse in 1883.
Image: Public Domain.

"The cold case of the mosaic portraying two lovers given back to #Pompeii, once a gift made by a captain of the Wehrmacht to a German citizen, has been shown to come from a Roman villa in Le Marche."
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"While history is what happened, it is also, just as important, how we think about what happened and what we unearth and choose to remember about what happened."
— Nikole Hannah-Jones, Journalist, Macarthur Fellow, Recipient Of The Pulitzer Prize For Commentary.

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Just submitted the news articles for @ancienthistory.bsky.social issue 59. Exciting stories from Egypt, Germany, Scotland, Tajikistan, Turkey and Wales.
#AncientHistory #AncientBluesky
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‘Thucydides across Athenian and Spartan Contexts' is a new collection of free-access research from Cambridge Uni Press, offering new insights into #Thucydides, Athenian power, democracy, and #Sparta.
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#classics #classicalstudies

Episode 267: Augustus: Rise Of An Emperor Part 1. With Lindsay Powell

Listen to the podcast here on Spotify:
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Just wrapped up Part 2 of a two-part podcast with
@wellthatagedwell.bsky.social. I discuss the life and times of Caesar Augustus with host Erlend Hedegart. #Romans #AncientBluesky upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

#OnThisDay in 12 BC, when M. Aemilius Lepidus died, Caesar Augustus became 'pontifex maximus', the most important position in ancient Roman religion.

🤷 'Pileus' is what was written on the label at @mfahouston.bsky.social.

The panel is deep in the weeds discussing what came first: the 'hoplite' equipment (bronze body armour, 'aspis') or the tactic ('phalanx')?

The panel is deep in the weeds discussing what came first: the 'hoplite' equipment (bronze body armour, 'aspis') or the tactic ('phalanx')?

Ancient Warfare 106 Bronze helmets, greaves, armour, and bronze-faced shields make for an impressive army, but who fought in all that kit, next to whom, and how?

Just about to record the Ancient Warfare podcast. This episode the panel discusses Greece in the Late Archaic period. Produced for Karwansaray Publishers by The History Network.
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Just wrapped up Part 1 of a two-part podcast with @wellthatagedwell.bsky.social. I discuss the life and times of Caesar Augustus with host Erlend Hedegart. #Romans #AncientBluesky
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Paris depicted in a wallpainting from #Pompeii, Italy, C1st. In a medallion, the young shepherd is depicted in his characteristic pointed felt cap, known as a 'pileus', which was associated with Troy. In the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, inv. 8981. Photo is my own. #FrescoFriday

Paris depicted in a wallpainting from #Pompeii, Italy, C1st. In a medallion, the young shepherd is depicted in his characteristic pointed felt cap, known as a 'pileus', which was associated with Troy. In the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, inv. 8981.
Photo is my own. #FrescoFriday

For #FindsFriday one more chance to enjoy the extraordinary newly-discovered Roman lead pig from Llangynfelyn, Ceredigion; one of a pair seemingly abandoned 🤔

Emperor Domitian's name is cast on the top, declaring it to be Imperial property 🧐

👉 @rcahmwales.bsky.social 3D model here: skfb.ly/pG6DJ

Mysterious men-only Mithras cult site found by German archaeologists German archaeologists have discovered new insights into Bavaria's Roman past from an ancient buried temple where Roman legionaries once worshipped the sun god Mithras.

"During recent excavations in Regensburg’s old town, German archaeologists uncovered a temple dedicated to the god Mithras ... Coins ... make it possible to date the temple to between AD 80 and 171." #RomanFortThursday www.euronews.com/culture/2026...

Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers (LIMES XXV volume 1) @ Sidestone Press This publication – Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers – is the first volume of the LIMES XXV’s congress proceedings arranged around the original sessions, in order to form coherent thematical colle...

The new _Current Approaches to Roman Frontiers –thr first volume of the LIMES XXV’s Congress_is out now open access. So many great articles on women & the Roman army; digital mapping of the limes; and a lot of articles on walls from Britain to China. www.sidestone.com/books/curren...

#OnThisDay - 4 March - AD 51: thought to be the date Nero received the title 'Princeps Iuventutis' - 'Leader of the Next Generation'. Tacitus (Annals 12.41) calls this a 'sycophancy of the Senate'. #History 🏺

Image: RIC Claudius 76; British Museum (BNK,R.9). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

"Curiam, in qua occisus est, obstrui placuit Idusque Martias Parricidium nominari, ac ne umquam eo die senatus ageretur."
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Rome re-enacts the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March Rome remembers the Ides of March, the date when Julius Caesar was assassinated by 60 conspirators including senators Brutus and Cassius, on 15 March 44 BC.

Augustus would not have approved. "It was voted that the hall in which he [Caesar] was slain be walled up, that the Ides of March be called the 'Day of Parricide', and that a meeting of the Senate should never be called on that day" (Suet. Div. Iul. 88). www.wantedinrome.com/news/ides-of...

You can buy or download a free ebook/PDF copy of 'Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome' by Timothy C. Hart, published by @uofmpress.bsky.social, here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

Matthew Rhys has a message for America from Wales YouTube video by Cymru Wales

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus | Happy St David’s Day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
#Wales
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Great news! The exhibition, 'The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy', will be at San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas from October 31, 2026–March 14, 2027. www.samuseum.org/artwork/exhi...

The lecture anticipates the special exhibition at Legion of Honor - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, May 2, 2026 - September 20, 2026.
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Watching 'Foreign Faces in Etruscan Art: Ethnicity and Representation in Ancient Italy' presented by Sinclair Bell for Ancient Art Council Lecture. #AncientBluesky

A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire Amazon.com: A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire eBook : Southon, Emma: Kindle Store

'A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire' (Kindle Edition) by Emma Southon is just 99 cents today! Save 94% off the Digital List Price of $16.20.
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When in Rome: Budapest pizzeria offers time-travel twist with ancient Rome-inspired pie A Budapest pizzeria is serving a limited pizza that uses only ingredients ancient Romans could have eaten.

"The finished [Roman pizza] pie is topped with ingredients associated with Roman aristocratic cuisine, including epityrum, an olive paste, garum, a fermented fish sauce ubiquitous in Roman cooking, confit duck leg, toasted pine nuts, ricotta and a grape reduction."
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3D tour by Lost in Time reconstructs Pompeii in its final days, moving through its marketplaces and domestic spaces, its gladiatorial arena, and even its remarkably sophisticated water system. #RomanSiteSaturday
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Matthew Rhys has a message for America from Wales YouTube video by Cymru Wales

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus | Happy St David’s Day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
#Wales
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYed...