#latium

Antefixes from an archaic sanctuary in Latium

These date back to 6th-5th century BCE. The sanctuary was located in Antemnae, Lanuvium or Satricum (=poorly taken "info photo")

TTRPG Mapmakers might find this interesting! I am working on a D&D campaign set during the tail end of the Greek mythological/Hellenic world, and after combing through all sorts of wikipedia maps and articles I made these maps for my setting! I spent hours in pixlr over the long weekend making these maps of the world! Next is the eastern sea/Troy/Anatolia map for the setting.

I spent so much time using historic references and went down several research spirals to give this setting a mythological-meet-historical foundation. Things obviously aren't accurate to real life, but I think they're neat for the narrative I want to tell.

[Had to delete the previous iteration of this post because I forgot to include a layer of the Greece map, my b! lol]

Here's another preview of another track I'm working on! If you like my music and want to help me publish the new album, please donate at this link. Thanks for your help!

The Aeneid; but its commentary on western colonization.

The Latium being indigenous peoples of the land, Aeneas/troy being the colonizer who are convinced that they have a divine right to conquer the land and force integration with the peoples of that land.

Turnus is just defending his territory not foolishly defying the will of fate.

A City of Brick, a City of Marble (2023)

A few screenshots of a personal project I made in the Sims 3. Called Latium, it an artistic and significantly scaled down reproduction of Ancient Rome during the First Century CE. Featured are various artistic depictions of real-world structures that have been constructed in the Roman Forum and the foot of the Capitoline Hill as they might’ve appeared toward the end of Emperor Augustus’ rule.

Other buildings are reconstructions of commoner structures that would’ve filled in the space between the monuments of the real city. I drew inspiration from various reconstructions of the era (both historical and artistic), most notably Digitalis Forum Romanum and the sets of HBO’s Rome and the BBC’s Ancient Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire.

Progress report:

I finally built the shell of the Mamertine Prison. I moved and embellished two of the insulae and moved them to the foot of the Capitoline hill.  Also, I built a smaller version of the Porticus Deorum Consentium.

This basically begins the first of the actual street scenes leading into the city center and creates a very big contrast between the Augustan Forum in its splendor and the blighted lives of the Empire’s working classes. My next task is to sculpt and landscape the Capitoline hill then work my way outward to the other geographic features.

You can view the rest of this project on my dedicated Sims 3 build blog.

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Program: The Sims 3, The Sims 3 Create-A-World

Date:  27 January 2023