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1 year

the upcoming TOS changes for this site are. uh. bad! apropos of nothing, here are other places you can find me: tumblr: katabay / sforzesco bsky, pillowfort, cohost: bonifacios

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THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS but specifically it's the scene between ares and paris in the excidium troie

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Francesco Filelfo & F. Masi Bruni, 1433

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ascanio sforza, the aperitio oris debate, and the giuliano della rovere rivalry

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LOOK ALIVE, SUNSHINE

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DO NOT BE AFRAID this is combining Ovid's Heroides and the Excidium Troie because I can't stop thinking of Hermes telling him not to be afraid. what the fuck!! also Ares is wearing the crown that Paris gave him.

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romans, countrymen, lovers, and tyrant killers: this year we have cassius holding caesar in place so brutus can go in for the final blow. beware the fucking ides of march 💕

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PERSEUS like. man. I get really emotional thinking about Perseus and Danae

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WILL NO ONE RID ME OF THIS TROUBLESOME ROMAN? "When Caesar arrived in pursuit on the third day, Theodotus showed him Pompey’s head and ring, but Caesar was offended and wept." -Liv. Per. 112.4

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francesco filelfo and cosimo de’ medici, around 1433 probably

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octavian, mark antony, a scene set some time after philippi

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THE MURDER OF CLODIUS

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unserious scribbling with licinia eudoxia, valentinian III, & theodosius II

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geta & caracalla :) it’s like. so it’s a shared dream, right. that’s the general idea here. the house-palace is a maze. no one is going to wake up feeling well rested from this lmao

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TYRTAIOS (nervous laughing) let’s uhhhhh hear it for the spartan poets!

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AKHILLEUS MURDERS TROILOS ON TEMPLE STEPS, A STATUE OF APOLLO WATCHES [1/2]

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@_dinadam Something fruity is going on here

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Sulla and Crassus, in the aftermath of the battle of Colline Gate, surrounded by bodies that can act as a witness.

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you know that part of plutarch, crassus 7 where caesar's like, 'I bet crassus is going to be thrilled when he hears I got kidnapped by pirates.'

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Spartacus and Crassus :)

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galeazzo maria sforza & lorenzo de’ medici, checking out the medici art collection

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sforza siblings :) galeazzo and ascanio, during one of ascanio’s visits home. somewhere between 1473-1475, probably

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some guys! maybe even some kind of conspiracy

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Crassus, Caelius, Cicero, Catiline, Conspiracy boy howdy these four sure are something

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THE BROTHERS PAOLO AND VITELLOZZO VITELLI

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(lunch date) lover boy it's caligula and lepidus (again!)

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valentinian & valens thinking about themistius’ brotherly love oration (as always lmao) (brother-emperors ruling the fratricide empire! wow!) (and as per usual, my valens takes after subleyras’ rendition of him)

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"—at the next meeting Publius Cornificius announced that Milo had a weapon inside his tunic strapped to his leg. He demanded that the thigh be bared, and Milo lifted his tunic without delay." -Asconius, on Cicero's Pro Milone (trans. John Paul Adams)

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ngl if antony had gotten a hold of cassius' body at philippi, he would've made out with cassius' corpse a bit. maybe even ate him.

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THE BROTHER EMPERORS, VALENTINIAN AND VALENS (with a lot of heavy inspiration coming from Subleyras’ paintings featuring Valens and Theodosius)

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'Do not fear,' said [Hermes]. 'You are the final judge of beauty, end the contentions of these three goddesses; decide which of them has such beauty that will conquer the other two.' He called on the name of great Jove, that I might know there was no escape-- Ovid, Heroides 16

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LADIES OF THE CONSPIRACY but specifically, porcia and tertulla :)

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26 April 1478 The first who spoke of any attempt against the Medici, was Francesco, who, being more sensitive and resolute than the others, determined either to obtain what was withheld from him, or lose what he still possessed. -Machiavelli happy pazzi conspiracy day!!

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THE BROTHERS SFORZA it's been a minute since I've drawn ascanio and ludvico

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revisiting crassus and clodius (and the bona dea scandal) but with a ✨ new composition ✨

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clodius and crassus, around the time of the bona dea scandal! it's about the. well. it's about something for sure!! debts, bribes, alliances, subtext and themes. all the stuff that makes the wheels of politics spin.

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CAESAR AUGUSTUS AND MARCUS LICINIUS CRASSUS this is about the spolia opima that crassus was robbed of lmao. like, yeah okay octavian could've asked him not to claim it, but nevertheless. a kind of theft happened there.

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Cassius & Caesar “But others say that this rivalry was the work of Caesar, who secretly favoured the hopes of [Brutus & Cassius] until, thus induced and incited, they entered into competition with one another.” Plutarch, Brutus

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octavian and crassus (the grandson), some soldiers celebrating crassus' success, and the threat of the spolia opima between them because I'm always a few thoughts away from going back to the spolia opima incident

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do you have enough love in your heart to go and get your hands dirty? it isn't that much, but it's a good start so go and get your hands dirty-- happy ides of march! lyrics from @grandson 's dirty

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—Cassius goes still as Brutus turns his palm up and kisses the cut: gentle, always gentle."

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xenophon and socrates, sometime early on

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caligula :)

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ascanio and louis xii, after the fall of milan to the french

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CAIUS TREBONIUS AND MARK ANTONY, MARCH 15th ides of march conspiracies all the way down, babyyy

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caligula falls ill and is visited by his dead brothers in a dream

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ambassadors, diplomats, and couriers are the wheel on which the political intrigue of the renaissance turns! this one is angelo di iacopo acciaioli :)

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giovanni colonna (the 15th century cardinal), in the midst of trying to figure out how to get out of this fucking mess* *his family siding against the pope

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AKHILLEUS MURDERS TROILOS ON TEMPLE STEPS, A STATUE OF APOLLO WATCHES [2/2]

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Agrippa, Antony, Actium

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in the gritty, edgy, overly dramatic, and unrepentantly horny HBO show of the late republic that exists in my head, the bona dea scandal is a crassus conspiracy to undermine caesar a bit.

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revisiting crassus and clodius (and the bona dea scandal) but with a ✨ new composition ✨

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OCTAVIA AND KLEOPATRA listen it's like. cleopatra had gifts put aside for octavia. and livia, but that's not as interesting to me. there's an implication, and outline, of some kind of relationship, and that not all hope was lost there. yet.

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And while they were dining together they naturally, [...] Antony asked Cassius: "Have you perchance a dagger under your arm even now?" To which he answered: "Yes, and a big one, if you too should desire to make yourself tyrant." Cassius Dio 44.34

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Crassus, although he had hopes of becoming his colleague, did not hesitate to ask Pompey's assistance. Pompey received his request gladly (for he was desirous of having Crassus, in some way or other, always in debt to him for some favour) Plutarch, Crassus 12

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a dream, years later: pelops once again is disassembled for easy consumption. the gods put your body back together, sure, but it doesn’t change the fact that you were once in pieces.

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TYDEA CONSUMPSI mars, polynices, tydeus, and the head of melanippus statius' thebaid, book VIII, IX

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—even love or an atmospheric comic about niccolo machiavelli and biagio buonaccorsi because sometimes you read books and two words in the middle of a sentence really get to you

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crassus & pompey (sometime during sulla's civil war, in spoletium) it's uhhhhh about pompey and alexander the great and the cynic epistles bit about hephaestion's thighs altho in this case the thighs are how crassus could bring pompey to a political standstill when he wanted to

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some comic loosely inspired from Xenophon's Hellenika 6.4.19-21

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lucullus and sulla :)

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Octavian and Agrippa :)

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TRY AGAIN LATER or: Pompey and Crassus have a conversation

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If I'm not safe, no one is safe. -Caligula, Alison Stone something about the gens julia doing the sacrificing and then becoming the sacrifice. the cyclical nature of tyrannicide too, probably, since caligula was 🔪🔪 by a cassius

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Cassius & Brutus

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the Pompey-Caesar divorce has layers to it, but this is the funniest one for me

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Amphiaraus Sees The End or NO COMMENT ON WHAT THE GODS INTEND (Statius' Thebaid, Book III)

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HAPUNAN MO ANG AKING KATAWAN lucullus and sulla bc I cannot stop thinking abt how sulla dedicated his memoirs to him………what the fuck……………..

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a rejected idea from the Second Triumvirate novel I keep writing lmao at one point, I wanted Antony’s rescue of Octavian to mirror the execution of Antyllus but the event that inspired the whole idea (as recorded by Appian) is too fun for that kind of wholesale reinvention

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WHAT DOOM FOR YOU? aka I adapted the ending of Statius' Thebaid Book VII into a comic because I think about the Thebaid daily [1/2]

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this time, Geta and Caracalla :)

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THE BROTHER EMPERORS, VALENTINIAN AND VALENS (with a lot of heavy inspiration coming from Subleyras’ paintings featuring Valens and Theodosius)

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sulla and crassus sure are something

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ngl sextus pompey was really fucking funny for this (cassius dio 49.18, but also. many things)

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CALIGULA: I dream that my brothers are gnawing on my flesh, whispering their final thoughts into my rib cage, and when I wake up, I can still feel the press of their teeth on my skin.

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Valentinian II was like, 4 yrs old, & ngl if I was Valens, I’d be annoyed as hell about it (Historia Ecclesiastica, Soc. 4.31)

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AND SUDDENLY, A NAKED MARK ANTONY— it's that one scene from Nicolaus' The Life of Augustus, 72

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publius crassus pulling a 90s/early 2000s rom com plot where the kid gets their divorced parents back together, except the divorced parents are crassus and cicero and they WILL break up again

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some kind of. addition? not quite a sequel. I was reading the timeline debates on dating fulvia's marriage to clodius! mostly, I think it's fun if she gets to watch whatever....this is.

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in the gritty, edgy, overly dramatic, and unrepentantly horny HBO show of the late republic that exists in my head, the bona dea scandal is a crassus conspiracy to undermine caesar a bit.

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Le zèle que d'Artagnan mettait à servir le cardinal explique ces récompenses, malgré tout un peu tardives. Il le suit dans la bonne corme dans la mauvaise fortune. -D'Artagnan, Capitaine des mousquetaires du roi, histoire véridique d'un héros de roman, Charles Samaran

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Mazarin and d'Artagnan like. listen. I'm reading Charles Samaran's book on d'Artagnan, and 'Colbert a dit que d'Artagnan fut une créature de Mazarin; rien n'est plus vrai,' sure was a sentence to read.

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komik re draw since Caligula now has his very own design :)

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octavian: this will be fine-- caligula: not for much longer!!

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ngl it is funny that crassus and cicero ended up in a co-parenting adjacent situation more than once

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Valentinian II :(

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comic redraw of the same scene :) Lupercalia, babyyy

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AND SUDDENLY, A NAKED MARK ANTONY— it's that one scene from Nicolaus' The Life of Augustus, 72

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caesar, crassus, & the beginning of a conversation that has been forcibly scrubbed from the page to give the conspiratorial flirtation some privacy! or maybe they're just talking about the state of current events in rome!! who knows :) it's a secret :))

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cornelia metella enters the conspiracy

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tahol, cassius! tahol!! etc or something. let him off that leash you have him on, brutus, you're not good at this. an unfinished scene out of the conspiracy comic that was fun to play around with

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teamwork!

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also the prologue chapter is up

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the thing I was working on btw! I just really liked working on these clouds

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livia, agrippa, and augustus :)

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I wanted to adapt one of my favorite scenes from the Iliad into a comic! the dialogue borrows and takes direction/inspiration from various translations, although pacing, general flow of the words, and page space got the final say in what I ultimately ended up deciding to letter

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sulla's fight with caesar is extremely funny to me ngl. like. what are you doing, man

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a little menelaus painting based on that one bust

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—A good seduction, Mark Anthony always says, has the other person thinking that they started it. In Trebonius’ opinion, this is bullshit. It is, however, pretty good groundwork for starting a conspiracy.”

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lmao this is a redraw of a sketch I posted back in december anyway, @ Cassius: Antony's not obsessed with you because of Caesar and tyranny, he's trying to (redacted) you

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pompey, caesar, crassus aka world's worst threesome

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Crassus and Sulla I have some half formed thought about how Crassus is repeatedly used as a scapegoat/sacrifice by Rome (the body, the narrative, etc) but I’m going to think on that more, so: whatever the hell that’s going on between Sulla and Crassus sure is interesting!!