Historian living in Rome. 🏳️🌈 Author of "The Families who Made Rome, a history and a guide" (Chatto, 2004). Currently writing a single-volume urban history of Rome for OUP.
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Anthony Majanlahti
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The lace-like marble of #Domitian’s #Alban theatre projected absolute majesty for a court of absolute terror. A late #ReliefWednesday look at the hyper-detailed "#Flavian #Baroque" gives us the architectural framework for the waking nightmare of proximity to the emperor. #AncientBluesky 🏺
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I'll meet you in the #Forum of #Sibidius. Where? This #EpigraphyTuesday gives us a statue base found in this otherwise mysterious forum near #palazzoAltemps in #Rome. Today in the #VaticanMuseums, it honors the forum's builder, Acilius Glabrio Sibidius himself. #AncientBluesky 🏺
For #SpoliaSunday, an ancient boundary #cippus set back up by #PaulIV #Carafa in 1557, tying his increasingly shaky rule over #Rome to the authority of the ancient #Republic: a strange act for a pope so hostile to #classical #antiquity that he closed the papal statue collection. #AncientBluesky 🏺
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While bathers stripped naked on this huge #Severan #mosaic floor of impudently thrusting leaves, they risked being seduced and robbed by a son and father. This #MosaicMonday I offer the #apodyteria of the #BathsofCaracalla in #Rome, transit points of licit and #illicit #pleasure. #AncientBluesky 🏺
