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The Partial Historians
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🏛🏛️The so-called Tellus panel of the Ara Pacis🏛🏛️

The Ara Pacis Augustae was one of the significant structures that emerged under Augustus’ rule and the highly allegorical ‘Tellus’ panel is a testament to the artistry that went into the construction.

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Here we see the panel as it appears today housed in the purpose-built museum in Rome, the central figure, identified variously as Roma, Tellus, Ceres amongst others who holds two infants. She is accompanied by lesser divinities as well as variety of real and imagined animals as well as a range of flowering and fruiting plants. The sense of abundance is palpable. The second version of the panel is a posited reconstruction of how it might have looked like when originally completed, painted to bring the scene to life. Other reconstructions use much more saturated colours which may also be plausible.
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While we’ve been podcasting about ancient Rome since 2013 (!) our love for history goes much further back in time. From a love of the ancient world on film from the epics of Hollywood, to the adventures of Indiana Jones, Hercules, and Xena. If there was a taste of the ancient world, we were there to savour it.

No one becomes a historian overnight, it’s long years of training in refining your critical thinking skills, parsing sources, comparing accounts, and learning how to draw out plausible conclusions from the fragments that remain. There’s a real pleasure in reading and thinking through the problems of the ancient world and of course we’re influenced by our context today. That awareness is part of what makes us the kind of scholars and teachers we are. Thanks for joining on our journey as we trace Rome’s history from the founding of the City!

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Dr Rad and Dr G smiling and making funny faces while wearing headphones. Text above and below photo reads, “The Partial Historians, loving ancient history since well before MMXIII’.
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🍇🍇Dionysus on a panther🍇🍇

May your #MosaicMonday be as exciting as the god Dionysus’ who is enjoying a casual saunter on a panther, who - if not tame - is resisting the urge to bite at this moment.

This mosaic can be found in the Archaeological Museum of Delos and was found in the House of Masks on Delos island. The mosaic is thought to date from c. 120–80 BCE.

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Image description: Dionysus rides side-saddle on the back of a panther with a ribboned thyrsus (a pine-cone tipped staff) in one hand and a tambourine in the other. Dionysus wears flowing robes and a crown of foliage and flowers.
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🏛🏛️ Fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief🏛🏛️

This #ReliefWednesday we travel to the sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis via Rome. These Augustan era fragments come together to a scene thought to include Demeter to the left; Persephone to the right; between them is Triptolemos, who was sent by Demeter to teach men how to cultivate grain.

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Description from the Met: “Demeter, the goddess of agricultural abundance, stands at the left, clad in a peplos and himation (cloak) and holding a scepter. At the right is Persephone, her daughter and the wife of Hades, the god of the underworld. She is dressed in a chiton and himation. Each goddess extends her right hand toward a nude youth, but it is no longer possible to determine what they held. The boy is thought to be Triptolemos, who was sent by Demeter to teach men how to cultivate grain. The original marble relief was found at the sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis. The original Greek work and a number of Roman copies survive. Here the ten Roman fragments are embedded in a cast of the Greek relief.“