My lords, the present occasion is too serious to allow me to follow the convention that a woman should not speak in a man's council.

— Empress Theodora

When the earth quakes in Nisan, the king's land will revolt from him. When the earth quakes during the night, harm will come to the land.

— omen from Nineveh cuneiform tablet, likely 7th c BC

A tribune of the plebs assaulted on the steps of the senate house. Can you imagine a more terrible sacrilege? — Julius Caesar

A series of short videos from my second trip to Rome.

Semper paratus. (Always ready)

-motto from Julius Caesar’s army

The outcome of every fight is death, and the means are fire and sword.

-Seneca, on the execution of criminals in the Colosseum

A brief and somewhat lazily written post about the tenuous connections Lemuria has with Mother’s Day and Halloween.