#ahenobarbus

Hey. So I got art block even though I do not lack time or ideas. I think that the Christmas stress and other holiday plans it giving me lack of motivation. And that sucks because I really wanted to draw some of the ideas I had.

I will draw them soon, just probably after Christmas. I still have three or so weeks until classes start again, after all. I hope I can use it wisely to make something.

So here's a picture that I should have posted long ago. My art final. It was a free draw and we had to make a narritve drawing. I chose cursed creepypasta images cause I just think finding the origins to these things are so cool.

We have Smile Dog, Jeff The Killer, Momo, Mereana Moregard Glesgorv, Dollthing, MARIO.1 image, and This man.

All of them are so cool and I hope I captured them well in Charcoal. So yeah. I hope you enjoy this while I work on other projects.

Octavian/Augustus - he has a reputation associated with peace but you will get a little ill once you look at all the collateral damage around him and that reputation ie. It's easy to institute a regime of peace when you've murdered everyone who might oppose you

Tiberius - when a chronic people pleaser finally get into a position of power and still no one thinks they're good enough and they finally reach burnout and fuck off to their vacation home indefinitely

Caligula - the first emperor in the long litany of reasons why people whose brain has not fully developed should NOT be given access to unlimited power. Little Boots is either insane or the absolute champion at taking the piss out of the elite and there isn't really a third option

Claudius - an icon for overcoming disability and bullying and knowing how to delegate administration appropriately. Also this man gave his wives a lot of mobility (for the time) so we stan in spite of the sources trying to smear him for that very thing. Also this man was SUCH a nerd and I wish they hadn't destroyed his history of the Civil Wars but that's the Augustan propaganda machine for ya even near kin isn't safe from censorship

Said Nero the quotation from Iliad and stubbed himself with a knife on the 9th of June in 68.

There was a mutiny in Gallia. Senator Galba and his legions was moving to the Rome. Nero was going to go to Egypt to have ships and army. Then he recognised that Nimfidius Sabin and his part of Praetorian guard left him. Nero's satellites began to ignore his orders. When emperor was in Servilla's Gardens, he was informed that Tigellinus betrayed him to (we don't know exactly about him) Then caesar came back to his palace, there weren't any bodyguards. Nero went to sleep. He slept until midnight. After getting up, emperor saw there were only slaves in the palace, all his friends left him.

Freedman Faon offered him to hide in his villa, Nero agreed. Freedmen Epaphroditus, Phaon, Neophyte and Sporus stayed with him.

When they were riding horses, thunder was roaring. Escapers heard how soldiers shouted delighted phrases to Galba, when they went past their camp.

At the villa Nero got a letter from senate. Senators called him enemy of people. It meant, that Nero's way to executed would be whipping.

When Nero heard knocks of hooves, he killed himself with a dagger. Epaphroditus helped him. Nero was still alive, when soldiers came in. One of them tried to stop the emperor's blood and Nero said him "Is this your loyalty?!"

And died. He was 30. The last emperor from Julius–Claudius dynasty. The last, but not the worst.

Sporus

Nero

Neophyte and Epaphroditus

Phaon

Joseph Lusher as Enobarbus (left) and Nick Baldasare as Mark Antony (right) from Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra, Actors Theatre Columbus 1997

Antony's base camp at Actium. Inside Domitius Ahenobarbus' tent:

Ahenobarbus: (looking up to Antony from his bed) How is your book coming along?

Antony: (thoughtful) Almost finished. I just need to edit the last chapter.

Ahenobarbus: (tries to sit up) Maybe I should write something in your support too while I still can. That will go nicely with your piece. Besides, your followers will be much elated by it.

Antony: (looking sternly at him) Stop talking Ahenobarbus. Only focus on your health. I am not running a cult. I want you jumping and lifting weights before we confront Octavian's ships.

Ahenobarbus: Mark, what if we all die of hunger following your cult!

Antony: (smiling) Then I will join you all before long! Now, throw these thoughts out of your head and rest. That's an order.

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