“Cave canem” (beware of the dog) mosaic. From Casa di Orfeo, Pompeii. Now on display at the National Archaeological Museum. Our t-shirt design inspired by this mosaic is available on Amazon and Redbubble (onelink) : https://geni.us/cavecanem2
Lararium of Pompeii, and Street shrine of Naples. The Ancient Rome legacy.
Notice: I made this set of photos because I find the resemblance between the home shrines in Pompeii and the catholic shrines on the streets in beautiful Naples, as old as Pompeii and so incredibly similar, to be very interesting and adorable.
I am not comparing the beliefs of the ancient Romans with the Catholic faith, but the resemblance in art related to the religious.
Roman fresco in the House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto, Pompeii.
Scene from the tragedyAndromache, by Euripides. Orestes kills Neoptolemos at the altar of Apollo in Delphi. Despairing Hermione, wife of Neoptolemos but previously promised to Orestes, kneels at the foot of the altar.
The Roman term for brothel, or lupanaria, is derived from lupa, the she-wolf who suckled Romulus and Remus.
Whores were associated with she-wolves because they often advertised their services with high-pitched, wolf-like cries. The tendency for she-wolves to lick their cubs also gave rise to the notion that lupae were proficient in oral sex.
Scientists say man shares similarities with modern Italians and others who lived in region during Roman empire
… The man was aged between 35 and 40 when he was killed in the violent eruption of Vesuvius in AD79. Comparisons of his DNA with genetic codes obtained from 1,030 ancient humans, as well as 471 modern western Eurasian individuals, suggested his DNA shared the most similarities with modern individuals from central Italy and those who lived during the ancient Roman period. Analysis of his mitochondrial and Y chromosome DNA also identified groups of genes commonly found in Sardinia, but not among those who lived in Italy during the empire, suggesting there may have been high levels of genetic diversity across the Italian peninsula at that time.
Further analysis of the man’s skeleton also identified lesions in one of the vertebrae and DNA sequences suggested he may have had tuberculosis before his death. …
