Same! You’re a name I recognize and appreciate the contributions of!

The folks protesting in LA are likely not the majority of any given election, especially considering LA’s recent elections putting ‘tough on crime’ ghouls into positions of local power.

Eta: excuse my lack of manners, please. Thank you for looking it up, for me. 🙂

Oh, any time! I love when a little interest in the subject is sparked, and I’m happy to help in whatever small way I can!

Cops are not punished for cowardice in the face of school shootings, because when local elections come 'round liberal voters are too meek to oppose them and conservative voters don’t care.

Cops are punished for failure to brutalize protesters, because when local elections come 'round liberal voters are too meek to support de-escalation and conservative voters care.

… amongst many other reasons.

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This particular scene would fall under the Augustan section of the article, as it takes place during the reign of Nero according to the caption!

I know Pliny the Elder wrote a bit about it, so I checked and grabbed the relevant section from his Natural History:

All these plans, however, are new-fangled and troublesome; for this substance may be prepared, in numerous ways, from the soot that is yielded by the combustion of resin or pitch; so much so, indeed, that manufactories have been built on the principle of not allowing an escape for the smoke evolved by the process. The most esteemed black [paint], however, that is made in this way, is prepared from the wood of the torch-pine.

It is adulterated by mixing it with the ordinary soot from furnaces and baths, a substance which is also employed for the purpose of writing. Others, again, calcine dried wine-lees, and assure us that if the wine was originally of good quality from which the colour is made, it will bear comparison with that of indicum. Polygnotus and Micon, the most celebrated painters of Athens, made their black from grape-husks, and called it “tryginon.” Apelles invented a method of preparing it from burnt ivory, the name given to it being “elephantinon.”

Same basic concept! Wax tablets with wood backing were common because the wax could be scraped ‘clear’ and reused, but some tablets were just wood for single-use, and letters either scratched in with a stylus, or written with ink.

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O16237/bust-of-a-young-man-bust-unknown/

Good. They should be troubled. This is utterly fucked.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Römermuseum_Osterburken_(DerHexer)_2012-09-30_035.jpg

Ignore this comment, I’m putting my reaction pics here for easy reference

I support Newsom right now insofar as putting up any sort of pushback against this fascist shitwittery is good and necessary, especially from elected officials.

If the Dem primary for 2028 means anything, I sure as shit will not be supporting Newsom, because I have a memory more substantial than a walnut.

While the Romans themselves believed that ‘salary’ was derived from salt being paid to soldiers in lieu of wages at some point in their history, there’s no hard proof of this (other than the similarity of the words).

Roman troops at this point (~60 AD) would only receive land once their 20+ year term of service was done and their fighting days were behind them - though just as often they’d receive their discharge bonus in cold, hard cash, since that was often logistically easier.

The regular pay given to legionaries at this time was in coin - though with deductions for equipment and supplies!

Based

Timeless military tradition of “Hurry up and wait”

More seriously, those boys will probably be the ones building the bridge once the brass are done talking with the locals. The Roman legions spent at least as much time doing construction and engineering work as fighting!

“Curious. These gods look similar to the ones we have in Epirus.”

“Oh no, patented Italic divinities! Old familial recipe.”

Mandatory note that Roman religion was different from Greek religion, despite many similarities and Roman [ahem] ‘borrowing’ of various Greek theological aspects.

That’s a gorgeous drawing! You should put it as its own post too, it deserves to be seen!

It wasn’t a permanent bridge and the Romans would usually destroy their bridge after they no longer needed it.

Minor note: on campaigns in permanently hostile territory, yes, to deny the enemy a means of retaliation, but many wooden bridges served for hundreds of years in conquered territory after being constructed. Bridges were a great way of controlling and monitoring civilian traffic, after all!