Column of Trajan, Scene by Scene

The passing mention of an old post on Trajan’s Column being colorized reminded me that I owed a tip o’ the pileus to Ellen Bauerle who sent in this Italian site which has a very nice treatment of Trajan’s column, scene by scene. Despite being an Italian site, rolling over the red dots for commentary reveals such are in French … I (and Ellen) don’t get that, but it’s interesting to follow the narrative as a sort of strip cartoon (hmmm … someone should make a graphic novel sort of treatment of Trajan’s column):

Colorizing the Medici Venus

Another one from back in March that I missed … they’ve detected traces of red paint on the Medici Venus’ lips:

Of course, we have long commented on colorizing of ancient statuary:

… etc. … I’m sure there are more …

Blues, Greens, Chariot Racing

I’m wading through backlogs of email and things that I meant to post, but didn’t, and then they got lost because the stupid iPad gmail app didn’t mark them properly, yadda yadda yadda, so here’s one from last March (!) in Smithsonian Magazine:

A Taste of Boris’ Oration

I’ve been anxiously checking in on Youtube in the hopes of seeing a video of Boris’ performance of Armand D’Angour’s Olympian ode and while we still don’t have the full thing, Susannah Davis (on Twitter; naturally we direct a tip o’ the pileus to her) did point us to this glimpse from a Greek source:

cf: <a href=”https://rogueclassicism.com/page/2/”>London 2012 Olympic Ode!</a>

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem viii kalendas sextilias

ante diem viii kalendas sextilias

¶  Furrinalia — a festival in honour of an obscure Roman deity named Furrina, who appears to have been associated with a grove and/or spring

¶ ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 6)

¶ 44 A.D. — marytrdom of James the Greater

¶ 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome (day 8)

¶ 306 A.D. — death of the emperor Constantius I; dies imperii of Constantine I

¶ 325 A.D. — Council of Nicaea closes