Hercules Killing Cacus, woodcut by Hendrick Goltzius, 1588.
Goltzius Dutch printmaker, & painter died #OTD in 1617. pic.twitter.com/TOBZ9JbQ4d

— Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) January 1, 2016

@CarolineLawrenc Thank you again 🙂

— Daniel Pett (@DEJPett) January 2, 2016

2,400 year old Sitting Sphinx
Taman Peninsula #archaeology Pontic Greek colonies,
Russiahttps://t.co/dlpgU9qGmJ pic.twitter.com/QOcuWdmyGO

— Ticia Verveer (@ticiaverveer) January 2, 2016

#onthisday 69 AD, Vitellius is proclaimed Emperor of the armies of Germania Inferior and Superior at Cologne. pic.twitter.com/smcFAtRak6

— Following Hadrian (@carolemadge) January 2, 2016

Roman penis carving to go on display in Lincoln https://t.co/tA6XAm9Nzp

— Metal Detectives Group (@DetectingDigsUK) January 2, 2016

One can't help but wonder who breathed the very air… #Miletus #Caria #Turkey #travel #archaeology #Bestof2015 pic.twitter.com/s7ea7bznoL

— Sedef Piker (@SedefsCorner) January 1, 2016

2,560 year old Sphinx of Naxos
offered by inhabitants of Island of Naxos
to Apollo Temple,Delphi #archaeology Greece pic.twitter.com/f3usNiOMqW

— Ticia Verveer (@ticiaverveer) January 2, 2016

Read about Alexander the Great's romance with Queen Thalestris in our Best of 2015 special. https://t.co/azYWVGhk6b pic.twitter.com/Kit6q7CXE0

— History Today (@HistoryToday) January 2, 2016

Still no evidence for governor of #RomanBritain in the early 90s? https://t.co/19aFuPrAnw pic.twitter.com/F9fQxU30Kp

— Caroline Lawrence (@CarolineLawrenc) January 2, 2016

For those wondering when #Domitian makes an appearance in my books. It's in Otho's Regret. Here's a taster. https://t.co/mx525AxuCi

— LJ Trafford (@TraffordLj) January 2, 2016

In posa lungo l’Appia Antica davanti alla Tomba di Cecilia Metella – https://t.co/DfnXxYT0E2
Via Appia Antica, 1902 pic.twitter.com/Ndw0Cot5YK

— Roma Ieri Oggi (@romaierioggi) December 29, 2015

More Roman roads in Britain being discoveredhttps://t.co/AvoxQDwyGJ

— CANI (@ClassAssocNI) January 2, 2016

Roman roads discovered in aerial flood maps of the UK | Daily Mail Online – https://t.co/XvwbnoKk6M

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

APPEAR Project – Fayum Mummy Portraits | In the Artifact Lab – https://t.co/er3SGI7mki

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

: The Beginning of the End for Illicit Antiquities: Why the Israeli Ruling will Effect a Cleansing of the Market – https://t.co/dV33WHUOSZ

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

CANADIAN CLASSICAL BULLETIN – BULLETIN CANADIEN DES ÉTUDES ANCIENNES – https://t.co/2hLxHj4R1n

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

Translating the ‘Iliad’? Who Isn’t. – The Daily Beast – https://t.co/VXYvido7lf

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

Les vases corinthiens et leurs imitations antiques de l’Hermitage | Spartokos a lu – https://t.co/jAs2tA1zFk

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

Roman tyrants in all their brutal glory – The Washington Post – https://t.co/E3HDW2UHGj

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

First Things First | The Petrified Muse – https://t.co/42YOaIWd55

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

Roman Bioarchaeology Carnival LXXVIII ~ Powered By Osteons – https://t.co/K0W7bH9HB4

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

My Work at the Archaeological Institute of America’s Annual Meeting | The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World – https://t.co/jGSD2GlHlg

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

Cicero Was a Cut-Up: Tully’s Jokes | Sententiae Antiquae – https://t.co/IykfBjhsc7

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

A Holiday Season Update | Barry Strauss – https://t.co/lSLYLgEwon

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

January 2016 is “chariot” month. So let’s take you for a ride! | Linear B, Knossos & Mycenae – https://t.co/5qOGWdpKTT

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: January 1 – https://t.co/7EWVCGT3XA

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

Stoics vs. The Steam Engine | Sententiae Antiquae – https://t.co/9Czdm8JfNA

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

Some Advice on Starting the Year Anew from Macrobius | Sententiae Antiquae – https://t.co/PanEJr3Jz2

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

Laudator Temporis Acti: Intellectual Slaves – https://t.co/j1XXbUw9rn

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

New Year’s Resolution? Workout Like Socrates… | Sententiae Antiquae – https://t.co/VIJpFMuTWP

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

TRANSLATION AS MUSE: Poetic Translation in Catullus’s Rome | Classics for All Reviews – https://t.co/Y27tqocI36

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

ARTEMIS | Classics for All Reviews – https://t.co/cTWIc5ySHK

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

Manly Ancient Readings | Sententiae Antiquae – https://t.co/LJX5MYObLC

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

@Marco_Scolaro
Grazie a te!#CentraleMontemartini#ROMA pic.twitter.com/J7pXONwrNo

— Vania Delli (@VaniaDelli) December 14, 2015

Oedipus ponders the riddle of the Sphinx
to rescue the people of Thebes from the monster's terror
archaeology Greece pic.twitter.com/OPOgd49Ab2

— Ticia Verveer (@ticiaverveer) January 2, 2016

Repititiationes ~ 01/01/16 https://t.co/VFa9O13tug

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

This Day in Ancient History ~ ante diem iv nonas januarias https://t.co/rw0Vvc8tgD

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

Pompei. Scavi violati da turisti polacchi. Fermati e denunciati dalla polizia | Il Mattino
https://t.co/RPkVKwOlpv

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

CAAS: Call for Papers 2016 https://t.co/MbuwuUjlUt

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

pic.twitter.com/xeG0MXd19h

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

pic.twitter.com/SuyuDF9fYZ

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

Socrates' Trial and Subsequent Death Penalty Were Legally Just | https://t.co/eGiuSzZWBU
https://t.co/bBLGj6G1Yf

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

@tronchin you can also point out that the press often misses the point

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

Grazie @overjas @Papryka5 @tinockha1 @SusanScCastaldi @cat_harumi @BrindusaB1 @Amyperuana @APriviter @ipe_rosa1 Ciao pic.twitter.com/UKK8rWVGqC

— Rita Cóbix (@RitaCobix) January 2, 2016

OTD 45 BC The Julian calendar takes effect in Roman Empire -January 1 starts the new year.https://t.co/Y5Dgb5kf7T pic.twitter.com/hl1zOrNOBn

— Poltair History Dept (@HistoryPoltair) January 1, 2016

La critica di Orazio

al consumismo

(reale, coevo, non ad litteram)

è nell'Elogio alla sobrietà

Va letto

–
– pic.twitter.com/pfCdiAoRmn

— Biagio Angrisani (@Biagio960) January 2, 2016

In Memory of Helmut Koester | University Lutheran Church – https://t.co/LfEvkXoD3l

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 2, 2016

Beautiful Near Eastern mosaic of Greek hunting goddess Artemis in the Byzantine gallery @ROMtoronto @ROMAncient pic.twitter.com/2YUeXYoIK7

— Dr Margaret Maitland (@eloquentpeasant) January 2, 2016

Were #Amazons really super tall #giants? where does this myth come from? https://t.co/3Ey4012Jy4 pic.twitter.com/20SRm7wdGJ

— Adrienne Mayor (@amayor) January 2, 2016

A parrot in a scarf, definitely pining for the fjords: Khirbet Bureikut, east of Jerusalem.
Photo: Claudine Dauphin pic.twitter.com/WMz7DDHSjj

— Pythika (@Pythika) January 2, 2016

Heracles presenting Cerberus to a frightened Eurystheus hiding in a pot.
Etruscan hydria
530 B.C.#archaeology Italy pic.twitter.com/UGbK1TEXNk

— Ticia Verveer (@ticiaverveer) January 2, 2016

Ruin of the day: The monumental western wall of the Bath-Gymnasium complex at Tralles in #Lydia (Turkey). pic.twitter.com/GCQAB0HuSx

— Following Hadrian (@carolemadge) January 2, 2016

The Horses of St Mark, Venice – Ancient bronzes taken from the Hippodrome of Constantinople in the Sack of 1204. pic.twitter.com/oWj4QiokS2

— Gareth Harney (@OptimoPrincipi) January 2, 2016

The Horses of St Mark, originally part of a quadriga, celebrating the chariot races in Constantinople's Hippodrome. pic.twitter.com/tJssVrGsyu

— Gareth Harney (@OptimoPrincipi) January 2, 2016

Forse non tutti sanno che il nome gennaio deriva dal dio romano Giano (Ianuarius): https://t.co/9m7o6kdL7W pic.twitter.com/zR0RuD5qD8

— Musei in Comune Roma (@museiincomune) January 2, 2016

Get to Know Socrates, Camus & Other Great Philosophers with the BBC Show, In Our Time https://t.co/dWLsR0j1r8 pic.twitter.com/GOmoQn98L9

— Open Culture (@openculture) January 2, 2016

Roman banqueting floor mosaic (3-4thC) from Lod, Israel, on show @FondazioneGCini #Venice #Venezia #Italy #Italia pic.twitter.com/CBkOMX16qc

— Dr Selga Medenieks (@ArcheoBlonde) January 2, 2016

Pictorial Atlas to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey (1892): https://t.co/enbw0iR75w pic.twitter.com/P6fQdko417

— Gürkan Ergin (@gurkan_ergin) January 2, 2016

The Roman banqueting floor mosaic from Lod #Israel on display in #Venice – some still pics. pic.twitter.com/SHbHNUyw97

— Dr Selga Medenieks (@ArcheoBlonde) January 2, 2016

#Mithology
The farewell between Hector and Andromache
Luca Ferrari Da Reggio,17th c.
Sera 💙 @Asamsakti @Milutta pic.twitter.com/4tqJgKytyc

— Lucia Tassan Mangina (@LuciaTassan) January 2, 2016

The oath of Brutus
Gavin Hamilton,1767
Grazie e B'sera 💙@Asamsakti @N2312Neagoe @emanuelaneri14 @cobixreyes pic.twitter.com/khe0DvgRWN

— Lucia Tassan Mangina (@LuciaTassan) January 2, 2016

Leopard & Persian gazelle on the Roman floor mosaic from Lod #Israel on display @FondazioneGCini #Venice #Venezia pic.twitter.com/rSI2mLfAyY

— Dr Selga Medenieks (@ArcheoBlonde) January 2, 2016

Seeing if this works… Stolen west coast peoples mask https://t.co/jfm6sZ5fjt

— rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist) January 3, 2016

2015 Precollegiate Teaching Award https://t.co/Wt89EnbqSJ

— SCS (@scsclassics) January 3, 2016