One of my favorite museums in the world is the Villa Giulia in Rome. It houses the National Etruscan Museum. It falls outside most quick tour routes, and it is a lovely, peaceful, elegant museum with a very rich collection.
See the pretty vases below, with various mythological scenes :) Recongize them?
19 May 1529: Eustache Chapuys given his credentials as Charles V's ambassador to Henry VIII #otd His letters are a key source for understanding of Henry’s reign & the break with #Rome
19 May 715: St. Gregory II is elected Pope #otd he repaired the walls of #Rome & commissioned St Boniface [Winifrid] the Anglo-Saxon to evangelise #Germany
Heading towards the Colosseum we passed a hole being dug in Via in Publicolis and beyond the hole a beautiful classical church. We asked a man standing beside the excavation how we could get to the church. It turns out that he was an archaeologist and every hole that gets dug in a street in Rome is accompanied by one because there is so much archeology everywhere!!! Instead of the Colosseum he suggested we should visit the 4thC Basilica of Saint Crisogono. #rome#archoeology#ancientrome
Shakespeare, you coward; Hollywood, you timorous poltroon. Keep your Julius Caesar, your Coriolanus, your Titus Andronicus, your Spartacus and Gladiators. I want to hear stories about TARQUIN SUPERBUS. What a name!
Battle of Actium (www.trustpast.net)
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