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Ancient Coin of the Day: Like coins? Like puns? Then you’ll love the denarii of Quintus Pomponius Musa, beginning with this silver denarius of 66 BC. #ACOTD #Roman #Muses Image:

#LatinForTheDay - 10 MayPicking up after a break with Tacitus on Sejanus!"Corpus illi laborum tolerans, animus audax; sui obtegens, in alios criminator; iuxta adulatio et superbia; palam compositus pudor, intus

#LatinForTheDay"At Romae ruere in servitium consules, patres, eques. Quanto quis inlustrior, tanto magis falsi ac festinantes, vultuque composito, ne laeti excessu principis neu tristiores primordio, lacrimas, gaudium, questus, adulati

#LatinForTheDay - 26 April"inde consilium mihi pauca de Augusto et extrema tradere, mox Tiberii principatum et cetera, sine ira et studio, quorum causas procul habeo."Tacitus, Annals 1.1.3 'Hence my intention

#LatinForTheDay - 22 April"Non legiones, non classis proinde firma imperii munimenta quam numerum liberorum; nam amicos tempore, fortuna, cupidinibus aliquando aut erroribus imminui, transferri, desinere: suum cuique sanguinem indiscre

Ancient Coin of the Day: Today’s thread is for Rome’s birthday, and we’re taking a look at some of the coins of Philip the Arab, during whose reign Rome’s 1000th

#LatinForTheDay - 11 April"at tu finge elegos, pellax opus (haec tua castra!), scribat ut exemplo cetera turba tuo.militiam Veneris blandis patiere sub armis, et Veneris pueris utilis hostis

Ancient Artefact of the Day: The Seikilos ColumnAn exciting piece today with this tomb monument from the Mid to Late 2nd Century AD - one of the major pieces of

Ancient Coin of the Day: Back to the Fourth Century BC today, with the coinage of Paeonia, a region to the north of Macedonia, beginning with this silver tetradrachm of

Ancient Coin of the Day: A really classy aureus of Claudius, issued ca. AD 50-54, celebrating Nero's admission into the four great priestly colleges of Rome. #ACOTD #Claudius Image: RIC

Ancient Artefact of the Day: The Mycenaean Lion RhytonA stunning example of Bronze Age gold-working from Grave IV, Grave Circle A at Mycenae, in this hammered gold rhyton. #AAOTD #Mycenaean

Ancient Artefact of the Day: The Liver of PiacenzaAn Etruscan life-size model of a sheep's liver, ca. 100 BC, used in the practice of hepatoscopy (divination through the inspection of