Image:Text: Ancient Roman Writing Kit: Poet, Mask, Muse: Ancient Roman Graffiti of Nero: Go Figure!
(found via McManus Images Index, VRoma .com, an online museum collection of ancient images)
on the one hand we have this genteel scene of writing:
on the other hand we have this image of poet with muse and theatre masks:
and on the third hand we have this graffiti caricature of the emperor, Nero, found on a palace basement wall, signed by Tullius Romanus, Soldier:
on the one hand we have this genteel scene of writing:
on the other hand we have this image of poet with muse and theatre masks:
and on the third hand we have this graffiti caricature of the emperor, Nero, found on a palace basement wall, signed by Tullius Romanus, Soldier:
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