Dok & Suu's Romanophilia Thread of Wonders

[Doktor Howl]

Damn... art talk is over then, hmm?

Whoops.  My bad.   

[Suu]

we could split the thread into Suu and Doc's Romanophilia Thread of Wonders?

[Doktor Howl]

Done.

[hooplala]

That's cool... sorry if I sounded like a douche, I was just enjoying the art talk, though I was enjoying the Middle Ages talk too... now both can breathe.   Thanks Dok.

[Doktor Howl]

That's cool... sorry if I sounded like a douche, I was just enjoying the art talk, though I was enjoying the Middle Ages talk too... now both can breathe.   Thanks Dok.

No sweat.

[Requia ☣]

Is there a list of the complete collection of original roman sources somewhere?

[Richter]

Anti-Graffiti crews sacked Rome in 455AD?

Have you SEEN the graffitti at Pompei?

Pompeii was buried in 79AD! The Vandals ran on top of it. Fuckers.

...and I haven't laughed so hard since.  At least until that crap in Pepperland.

[Doktor Howl]

Is there a list of the complete collection of original roman sources somewhere?

The bibliography of Gibbon's The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire is a good place to start.

[Doktor Howl]

Also:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient_Romans

[Suu]

Is there a list of the complete collection of original roman sources somewhere?

There are SO many. Unlike Greek works, a lot of Roman work was preserved by the churches.

[Suu]

Anti-Graffiti crews sacked Rome in 455AD?

Have you SEEN the graffitti at Pompei?

Yes. And here it is:



[House of the Mysteries in Pompeii. Contemporary caricature etched onto a wall, presumably of whichever Caesar was kicking around at the time. Resemblance to Mr McGoo entirely coincidental]

You wouldn't happen to have a bigger shot of that, would you?

[Mangrove]

Anti-Graffiti crews sacked Rome in 455AD?

Have you SEEN the graffitti at Pompei?

Yes. And here it is:



[House of the Mysteries in Pompeii. Contemporary caricature etched onto a wall, presumably of whichever Caesar was kicking around at the time. Resemblance to Mr McGoo entirely coincidental]

You wouldn't happen to have a bigger shot of that, would you?

Yes, I do. I downsized it as not to be a bandwidth eating douche. When I get back home I'll send it to you in original version.  (I'm at my office at the moment)

While I'm thinking of it, I took a LOT of pics in Italy and have many Roman & Renaissance goodies. Anything you'd be interested in?

[Suu]

Anything in and around Naples especially.

Also at the time that Vesuvius erupted, it could have been Vespasian or Titus on the throne as Emperor.

Compare and contrast:



to

Vespasian:


Titus:


I'm going to assume it's a copy of Vespasian from his Denarius, especially with the exaggerated nose and chin and fat rolls on his back, because Titus was on the throne a total of 2 months before the volcano went.

[Mangrove]

Suu,

Excellent stuff!

We were staying in Caserta nr Naples. Basically ground zero of the Commora crime family (like the Mafia only not Sicilian).

We went to the palace that was used in one of the Star Wars movies (isn't it criminal that is what I remember of the place rather than it's actual name?.....). Next day we hit Pompeii. That was followed by a wedding in a converted monastery.

[Suu]

Romans love satire and comedy and made fun of political heads much like we do today, so naturally an exaggerated form of an emperor as graffiti would be HYSTERICAL.

My SCA persona is based in the Kingdom of Naples, Sicilian by birth but moved to the mainland. There's unfortunately not a lot of in-your-face history about Naples because the late Renaissance was dominated by Florence and Venice, and Naples was controlled by Spain. So any pictures you have of architecture and stuff that I can use in my documentation would be great.