Posted on 02/27/2019 10:29:44 AM PST by ETL
Much like HOC EGO CACAVI found outside a politician’s house in Pompeii.
A stick figure of Cory Booker captioned, “I am Fartacus!”?
Romani ite domum!
(Repeat 100x)
That movie just makes me grin every time I see a reference of any kind to it!
“Romanus Eunt Domus!”
Was the member leaning left????
***Yeah, riiiiiight..................... ***
Actually it was in those days. The art of Pompeii has quite a few of them all over the place. From what I’ve read, they were to attract the first glance and absorb any “evil” from the evil eye.
The book EROS IN POMPEII shows quite a few of them.
-PJ
As men relieved themselves at the public toilets in the coastal city of Antiochia ad Cragum some 1,800 years ago, they probably would have been amused by dirty scenes crafted into floor mosaics, archaeologists have found.
"We were stunned at what we were looking at," said Michael Hoff, an archaeologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
"You have to understand the myths to make it really come alive, but bathroom humor is kind of universal as it turns out."
The two mosaic scenes twist common tropes in Greek and Roman art. Narcissus is typically shown falling in love with his own reflection in water. In the mosaic at Antiochia ad Cragum, which was likely created in the second century, only half of the scene is preserved —but, Hoff told Live Science, "it's the good half."
Narcissus is shown with an uncharacteristically long nose, which would have been considered ugly by the beauty standards of the time. He looks down, presumably admiring the reflection of his conspicuous p____ instead of his face.
In myth, Zeus disguised himself as an eagle to kidnap the Trojan adolescent Ganymede and make him a cupbearer to the gods. (The myth offered a model for relationships between men and adolescent boys in ancient Greece.) In art depicting that abduction, Ganymede is often shown holding a stick and rolling hoop as a toy.
In the image in the latrine, Ganymede instead holds tongs with a sponge, a reference to the sponges that would have been used for wiping the toilet. And Zeus is not an eagle but a heron, with a long beak grasping a sponge and dabbing Ganymede's p____.
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Joseph Fiennes does it all with his face. In the opening scene, we meet Clavius in a pitched battle with the Jewish sicarii, aka the zealots. The expression on his face is -- boredom. It's as though he's thinking, "These Jews think they're competition? They're exercise!"
When he meets his new subaltern, a young, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed officer fresh out of OCS, the look on his face is, "Oh, f*** me!"
When the subaltern questions how they are going to find Mary Magdalene, Clavius doesn't even say, "Watch and learn," he simply motions the boy to the barracks and asks the question as to who "knew" her. Everybody raises his hand.
The dialog is clever. When Clavius apprehends Mary Magdalene because he's been waiting for her to attempt to escape by the back door of the inn, he grabs her and says, "Shalom, Mary."
The scene with Bartholomew is a taste of British humor. Clavius' response to Bartholomew's claim that he doesn't fear death because he will meet his master in the afterlife is a classic. "See those nails? That's the reality of crucifixion. You try to breathe -- oh wait, you can't breathe. We took your master down after a few hours because of your religious holiday, but we'll leave you up there for a couple of days."
Pontius Pilate comes across as a British bureaucrat, s Roman version of Sir Humphrey Appleby of "Yes, Minister." I'm not a religious believer, but I thoroughly enjoyed the film.
So basically soldiers haven’t changed much since the first day there was soldiers.
Not really surprised. Boys will be boys.
lol
And a line from fairly recent times>>>>
“All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”
FVCK YOV
There is one that always gets me as very funny. An over sexed Satyr with a pig shaped penis is pulling the clothes off a girl with her back to he viewer.
Instead of being a happy satyr, we see a look of disgust or horror on his face.
The look of disgust is because the girl is a hermaphrodite.
Even the Romans had their limits to perversion.
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