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!
Serious #Downfall vibes in the series finale of #Rome. I’m not an educated classicist and I know they had to change things for the show and its collapsing budget by this point, but I’m a bit skeptical that the real story was like this.
No wonder people see this show as a precursor to Game of Thrones - I may get round to watching that. I’ll have to rewatch season 1 later.
I also just bought Ten Caesars and will read it soon.
Battle of Actium (www.trustpast.net)
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