Ancient => Coins-n-statues (track 'em down and post 'em)

Otacilla Severa AE Sestertius & AR Antoninianus => "Concordia"

... oh, and a "Hippo"

 

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Herennia Etruscilla AR Antoninianus => "Pudicitia"

 

Sorry, but I need to post one more ...

Antoninus Pius Sestertius => "Tiber(inus)"

 

How fricken cool is that statue, eh? (oh, and that coin!!)

.... man, it is unbelievable that we get to collect these pieces of "history"

 

ALEXANDER II ZABINAS - cornucopia

 

L CENSORINUS ROMAN REPUBLIC - the satyr, Marsyas

 

JULIUS CAESAR AR Denarius - Aeneas carrying Anchises

 

Mithra (leaving the Altar)



Statues of a bull (symbol of Mithra/Mithras) being sacrificed are one of the few types of surviving things from the worship of Mithras.

 

Caligula AE As => "Vesta"

 

Cilicia Soloi AE25 => "Aphrodite"

... ummm, apparently riding the bull ...

 

sorry Windchild => I self-edited the porn-shot (my bad)

 

Lol...


Unlike most modern youth, I have studied the classics since I was 5 (!) years old.

I'm not prudish in the slightest.

 

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Ummm => I was merely lookin' out for myself (I'm playin' it pretty cool on this site)​

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All hail the Fly !!!! I know its a bee... ~ Ionia 280 BC

 

Uh......At what time in history was it common for youth of five to study the "classics"? I know of no time period which it was common to be studied at this age.

 

For Children of intellectuals or the well-off, during Roman times and the Renaissance they were taught of the Classics from a very early age.

 

I think you may find the same for children of the upper classes only a short time ago, perhaps even the beginning of the last century.

 

Well they certainly weren't reading the actual works of Aristotle at age five, though it may have formed the basis of their teachings. For early Roman times wouldn't they have considered these things to be modern theory rather than a "Classic".

 

Nope...

They studied the 'Classics'... Meaning Roman.


I wasn't reading Aristotle at five... I was seven when I did

 

Oh Roman.....so no Aristotle then.
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