@OptimoPrincipi
Gareth Harney
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Roman fresco panel showing Odysseus resisting the song of the sirens. The Homeric hero is tied to the mast of the ship while the sirens sing out from high rocks, surrounded by the bones of their previous victims! From Pompeii, c.50 AD
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@JRam8723
Joram Jante
24 days
@OptimoPrincipi So the sirens were birdmaids and not mermaids???
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@OptimoPrincipi
Gareth Harney
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@JRam8723 Exactly πŸ¦…
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@chapps
Chapps
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@OptimoPrincipi My favorite part of this are the little skeletons. Perfect touch. πŸ’€
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@RousBenjamin
Benjamin Rous
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@OptimoPrincipi And not only singing, but playing musical instruments! πŸ₯°
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@aniketos0
Andrew Michael Chugg
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@OptimoPrincipi Loving that they're showing him the instruments and Odysseus & the Sirens has been signedπŸ–‹οΈπŸ˜ƒ How rare is that for a Pompeii fresco? πŸ˜…
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@medullitus
Mert
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@OptimoPrincipi A very valuable post. But it would be better to read the abbreviation CE instead of AD from a researcher like you. Otherwise, you might become an instrument of the propaganda of those who destroyed that culture.
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@BiancoDavinci
DaVinci
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Beautiful Byzantine mosaics of the ceiling of the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna, Italy.
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@archeohistories
Archaeo - Histories
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Remains of a prehistoric house from bronze age settlement of Akrotiri in Santorini, Greece πŸ‡¬πŸ‡· Akrotiri, a 3600 year-old city on the island of Santorini buried by ash from a gigantic volcanic eruption in 1650 BC, frozen in its Bronze Age glory, serves as an exquisite time capsule
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@VeraCausa9
Michel Lara
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The Alexandrian Complex 'The Alexandrian Complex' could be defined as an unsatiated obsession of seeking knowledge by collecting an ever increasing number of books.
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@juliet_turner6
Juliet Turner
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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