#ancientbluesky #history What did you do in ancient Rome when your air-con failed, and it was unbearably hot? You went outside, of course! Subscribe to read more - shorturl.at/mgnTD

#ancientbluesky #romanhistory This week's FREE article is called OOGABOOGA, and it has a monkey on the front. That's reason enough to read it, right? It's also about ancient people and myths, but it has a monkey on it, so that should do the trick, I reckon. Here you go - shorturl.at/mpAsG

#ancientbluesky #Romanhistory is full of important questions, well asked. Today I tackle one of the most pressing - What did a Roman bloke do if he got a boner in public? Hey! You don't get this stuff from other historians, do you!? Subscribe to read! - shorturl.at/HZibz

#Romanhistory #ancientbluesky When #JuliusCaesar went a little, well, bonkers towards the end, was it just a case of megalomania or were other forces at work? Read more, for free, here - shorturl.at/J4oro

Gargoyles, Merlin and Nero, together at last! #romanhistory #ancientbluesky Read for free here - open.substack.com/pub/jamescov...

#Romans loved to dance as much as anyone else, as long as it was macho jumping about and bashing stuff and not that namby-pamby, sinewy, womanly sort of stuff people did nowadays. Nowadays being then, not now, of course. You can find out more here - shorturl.at/P0TiK

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Happy Birthday (yesterday, or maybe the day before) to #JuliusCaesar. But which one? The one the Romans knew? #Shakespeare's one? The one we know? Napoleon's one? Are they all the same person? Read more, for free, here - shorturl.at/wkAEE

Imagine a TV advert for the #Roman army - "Can you march 20 miles a day?" Me - "No." "Can you then build an entire camp before nightfall?" Me - "NO!" "Can you then fight off the enemy?" Me - "I already said NO!" But THEY could do all that - or could they? Find out - shorturl.at/Y3MM3

#ancientbluesky #history #thebible We all know what #Jesus looks like, right? He looks like.. well.. like THAT. But why does he look like THAT and not, for example, like..umm.. THAT? Read this, for free, and I'll tell you! - shorturl.at/3UkQt

#Ancientbluesky #history #Pertinax was named after the quality of being stubborn, which was ironic given that he wasn't around for very long Find out how long, here - shorturl.at/7QoQ7

#ancientbluesky #romanhistory The final part of the #HistoriaAugusta biography of #Commodus and things do NOT get any less madder. Click here to find out just how mad they get - shorturl.at/toxKZ

#ancientbluesky #history #MacrusAurelius was one of the 'good' emperors, so why did his son #Commodus turn out to be such an absolute bastard? Was it because he was, well, a bastard? The #HistoriaAugusta thinks so! Subscribe to read more - shorturl.at/8fa8I

#ancientbluesky #romanhistory This year is the 250th birthday of something really cool! No, not #USA - Gibbon's Decline and Fall. So, in honour of that, let's have a look at what, if anything, the Roman Empire's, well, Roman Empire was... Read more for free! - shorturl.at/CxSV3

#ancientbluesky #history #classics You want mad emperors behaving appallingly!? I'll give it to you! How about this man bugger, #Commodus? Preview edition free to read here - shorturl.at/BD9UJ

#ancientbluesky #history Those #Romans loved hacking a bloke to death - his sons, too. But sometimes they also chose to execute a man's daughters, too, and the question is, why? Subscribe to find out! - shorturl.at/qhtPq

#ancientbluesky #Romanhistory Last week we asked what would happen if a Roman man got a slave pregnant. The answer is, broadly, 'meh', because he's a man, right? But what if it was the other way round? You'll not be surprised to learn that the answer is not 'meh'. Read more - tinyurl.com/5yskezsb

#ancientbluesky #history On then to Book 6 of the #HistoriaAugusta, and we meet the short-lived rebellion of Avidius Cassius, who had an interesting, and very tall, way of killing people. Preview version here - shorturl.at/1FE6G

#romanhistory #ancientbluesky "Dad... I got a girl pregnant!" Dreaded words for any parent, but what about if the girl in question is one of the household slaves? Does that matter? What happens next? Subscribe to find out! - jamescoverley.substack.com/p/slavery-se...

#ancientbluesky #theBible #romanhistory During the Sermon on the Mount, #Jesus warned against babbling like the Gentiles during prayer. But which Gentiles is he referring to, and what was this babbling? Does history give us examples? Find out here, for free! - shorturl.at/k5hJf

#ancientbluesky #romanhistory It's party time! And if you were Marcus Aurelius' brother, it was ALWAYS party time! Never a man to reach the end of the day still thirsty, it's Lucius Verus! Historia Augusta, Book V, Free preview with a full guide to the text here - shorturl.at/YEBh8

#Romans had loads of gods. There was Jupiter, and Mars, and that other bloke, and Minerva, and wassername, and him... but how many, exactly, were there? The answer is I don't know, but I can explain why if you subscribe! Read this! - shorturl.at/K1xgM

Our old friend #MarcusAurelius is back for the second part of his biography from the #HistoriaAugusta, this time giving the Germans a good bashing and some characteristic beard stroking. Read it now, with an exclusive guide to the text! - shorturl.at/rLQNB

The ruins of the imperial palace on the Palatine Hill are some of the most important in #Rome. So why aren't they as famous as, say, the #Colosseum? For more #Romanhistory like this, subscribe today! Read here - shorturl.at/TibYR

#ancientbluesky #classics #history The #Romans had big ones. And they had small ones. Provinces, that is, you saucy-minded scamp! What did you think I meant? Read more, for free, here - shorturl.at/RzEik

#AncientBluesky One of the most commonly asked questions about #RomanHistory is whether #Nero was mad or just the victim of propaganda. Well, subscribe here to find out what the answer is - shorturl.at/GtAam

#ancientbluesky #roman #christianity Was #Jesus really a carpenter? What did he do before he was famous? Was he really a follower of John the Baptist? Here's what history says about it. Read now, for free! shorturl.at/16l0m

Epitaph of Sextus Lartidius Thelys. #Rome, Early 1st Century AD Sex(tus) Lartidius Sex(ti) l(ibertus) Thelys , mag(ister) q(uinquennalis) famil(iae) an(nis) XXX et Lesbiaii l(ibertus).

As a proud #Welshman, this will be my only comment on the marvellous result in the #Senedd elections. Congratulations to #PlaidCymru on a historic victory.