"Favor of the Caesar"
Roman emperor Domitian and Flavius Earinus - his favorite eunuch lover.
#Domitian #Earinus #AncientRome #HistoryArt
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In Domitian’s Rome, elite criticism had consequences. 🏛️
Senators and philosophers who challenged imperial authority faced exile or worse.
Power doesn’t always ignore dissent. Sometimes it eliminates it.
#AncientRome #Domitian #History #Brewminate
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my ugly babies (affectionately)
#thoseabouttodie #titus #titusflaviusvespasianus #domitian #myart #digitalart #titusflaviusdomitianus
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DYK Emperor #Domitian outlawed self-castration, popular w/#pagans & #Christians? Like #Hadrian, he cluttered the empire w/statues of the delicates (pet boys) & deliciae (pet girls) w/whom he was enthralled. They served him as servants & #SexToys. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex
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Saturday Art History: The Art of Un-Making.
In Rome, when a high official or emperor was declared an enemy of state, their statues, engravings were deliberately defaced in a practice called 'damnatio memoriae' -state sanctioned process of erasing a person from history.
#arthistory #rome #domitian
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#Newyears #ancientbluesky #romanhistory #tyrants #domitian
Tyrants don’t have power. You have power. Tyrants use your power to stay alive. They’re like the evil equivalent of fairies, and once you stop believing in them, they disappear with a puff of air.
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💀 DOMITIAN: THE TYRANT WITH MIRROR WALLS.
The emperor was so paranoid he polished his palace walls like mirrors to watch for assassins. He demanded to be called "Master and God".
Own his silver coin: [https://kinzercoins.com/]
#KinzerCoins #Domitian
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Historical image of Titus
In 81 AD, Domitian became Roman emperor, beginning a 15-year reign that remains intensely debated by historians. His rule marked the end of the Flavian dynasty. #RomanHistory #FlavianDynasty #Domitian
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Arrius Piso And The Emperor Domitian
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🤯 THE EMPEROR WHO RULED LIKE A GOD.
This certified Domitian Denarius (AD 81–96) is the relic of the tyrant who demanded divine worship (Dominus et Deus). His paranoia ended the Flavian line in blood.
Hold what the gods once ruled: [https://www.kinzercoins.com/]
#KinzerCoins #Domitian
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DYK 1stC Emperor #Domitian had to outlaw self-castration among pagans & Christians? Too many men wanted to become Galli of or brides of Christ. In 3rd C, #ClementofAlexandria worried that the church might die of it. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
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#Domitian #EmperorDomitian #AncientRome #RomanEmperors #Emperors #AncientHistory #AncientBlueSky #Discover #FlaviusJosephus #Josephus
Arrius Piso (aka 'Flavius Josephus') And The Emperor Domitian
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#Domitianus was born #OnThisDay in 51, ruling the expanding #RomanEmpire from 81 until his assassination in 96. #Domitian was tyrannical & curtailed freedom of speech as well as persecuting Christians & Jews; he was a ruthless but capable & efficient autocrat...
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“How pleasant it is to be elegant, yet how quickly that stage passes!”
👑⚔️ #Domitian, Roman Emperor (81-96), was #BOTD 24 October 51 AD. #AncientRome
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#ancientbluesky #history #skystorians #archaeology #domitian
Here, in all its finger-shredding, eye-gouging, blood-soaked, assassin-screaming, enraged-emperor glory, is the final day of the emperor Domitian!
No terrified slave boys were terrified in the making of this terror
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96 AD — Emperor Domitian is assassinated, ending the Flavian dynasty.
Nerva (an old senator) walks in like:
“Surprise bitch, bet you thought you’d seen the last of the Senate.”
#Rome #History #ThisDayInHistory #Domitian #Nerva #Trajan
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"He used to say that the lot of Emperors was most unfortunate, since when they discovered a conspiracy, no one believed them unless they had been murdered." (Suetonius)
👑 #Domitian, Roman Emperor, was assassinated #OTD 18 September 96 AD. #AncientRome
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👑⚔️#OTD in the #History of #AncientRome 14 September 81 AD, #Domitian succeeded his brother #Titus, who had died the previous day, as Emperor of #Rome. He would reign until his assassination on 18 September 96 AD.
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VAULTED STUCCO CEILING, C. 90-100 CE. DOMUS OF SAN CLEMENTE We are in a wealthy domus of the late Flavian or early Antonine era which was built on the site of a house destroyed in the Great Fire of 64 CE after this land was returned to private use following its incorporation in the grounds of the Domus Aurea. Only part of the domus has been excavated, including a summer triclinium, semi-buried and decorated with coral to simulate a cave, which was transformed along with the rest of the house into a Mithraic cult centre in the C3. This room, directly in front of the triclinium/Mithraic banqueting hall, still has its delicate C1 stucco ceiling, once richly painted. It is a series of framed squares around a rectangle, at back, with a stucco bird or flower in each square. The rectangle seems to have a candelabrum at its centre. Further toward us, a large square is framed with hexagons, each with a flower at the centre. This must have been a magnificent ceiling in its time.
For #ReliefWednesday we've gone down, down, deep under the C12 basilica of #SanClemente in #Rome, to find a little taste of post- #DomusAurea luxury in a #ceiling of low #relief #stucco from the end of the reign of #Domitian or perhaps the brief interval of #Nerva. #AncientBluesky 🏺
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Why Did Rome Fear This Emperor?
Step back in time to ancient Rome and discover the shocking story of Emperor Domitian! 🤯
#RomanHistory #AncientRome #EmperorDomitian #Domitian #HistoryFacts #RomanEmpire #Tyrant #GodEmperor #ImperialRome #Shorts #HistoricalFigures #AncientHistory #RomanEmperors
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DYK Emperor #Domitian outlawed self-castration, popular w/#pagans & #Christians? Like #Hadrian, he cluttered the empire w/statues of the delicates (pet boys) & deliciae (pet girls) w/whom he was enthralled. They served him as servants & #SexToys. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex
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Look UP! New Book on OLD Topic! #WargameResearch #RomanSoldierVersusDacianWarrior #DacianWarsAD85to106 #MurrayDahm #CombatSeries80 #OspreyPublishing #Domitian #Trajan #Danube #SwordAndSpear #WRG #AncientWargaming
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Roman Empire #Nerva Harmony With The #Army
Following the murder of #Domitian in #September AD 96, the new emperor #Nerva made calculated efforts to distance himself from the last Flavian ruler [Cassius Dio, 68.2].
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🤓 Roman-era battlefield mass grave unearthed beneath #Vienna soccer field | Archaeology News Online Magazine
#Roman #Domitian
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CAMEO OF DOMITIAN, C. 85 CE. MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE DI FIRENZE This two-level sardonyx cameo has a portrait of Domitian in profile facing right, all carved from the upper white layer, while the background is a brown layer. The emperor is shown with the obligatory laurel crown and is wearing the ægis of Minerva, his tutelary goddess, even including an entirely non-monstrous Gorgoneion, which is just a woman's smiling face. He is carrying a sceptre which cuts across the background in front of his nose. The sceptre has a little carved eagle atop an orb at the end of it. Due to some mild striations on the emperor's neck, Domitian seems to have a worrying blue-ish tumour on his neck. Have that seen to! Unlike last week's cameo, this one survived Domitian's damnatio memoriae without being given Nerva's nose.
#ReliefWednesday offers us a comparison to last week's #cameo of #Domitian with one from the grand-ducal collection of the #Medici in #Florence. This is a less fancy piece of gem cutting, and less skilled, but at least it didn't get the nose of #Nerva cut into it. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺
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CAMEO WITH IMPERIAL HEAD, 80-100 CE. MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE DI NAPOLI Temporarily at the Capitoline Museums for the Farnese exhibition. This beautiful bust of an emperor is in three-level sardonyx, the top level being a caramel-coloured brown over a middle layer of white and a bottom layer of iridescent grey. The emperor is facing towards the right, and his laurel crown and part of the chlamys on his shoulder are both in the top level brown colour, whereas the majority of the head and shoulders are in the white layer. This cameo was acquired by Fulvio Orsini, the agent and collector for Cardinal Alessandro II Farnese. There are two curious things about this piece. First, it has the shape of the head of Domitian, but the beaky nose of his successor Nerva. Second, it shows no signs of being recarved to look like Nerva (no narrowing of the head, for instance), leading some scholars to suspect it is a C16 fake. But I think it was recarved well in antiquity. Really the only part to be reworked was Nerva's nose: the round chin looks like Domitian's, as does the brow.
The Mystery of Nerva's Nose is on our minds for #ReliefWednesday. From the back of this #cameo's head, with its little curls at the nape of its neck, all the way to the profile, this #emperor is clearly #Domitian. But then wham, that beak! It surely belongs to #Nerva. So...? #ClassicsBluesky 🏺
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A casual search worst Roman emperor, one has to decide is the bloodiest the worst? The pettiest the worst? The most incompetent the worst? I wonder why this is in my head…?
#tiberious
#Caligula
#nero
#domitian
And so on. MOST died by murder; and of the murders, some by family members.
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Domitian
Roman Empire in 125
#Domitianus was born #OnThisDay in 51, ruling the expanding Roman Emperor from 81 until his assassination in 96. #Domitian was tyrannical & curtailed freedom of speech as well as persecuting Christians & Jews; he was a ruthless but capable & efficient autocrat:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domitian
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An old house in the old city of Split in Croatia. It is night, the last glimpses of the day can be seen in the sky (at least with a bit of imagination). The square outside the house is paved with marble so old, you can imagine roman horse carriages rolling over them.
An old house in the old part of the city of Split in Croatia. If you don't look too closely, this picture could have been taken at any moment in the last 300 years. The marble on the square is as old as emperor Dmoitian who built this town. #photo #photography #split #croatia #domitian #romans
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