🪷 #AugustusCaesar born 23 Sept 63 BC, died 19 Aug 14 AD. Ruled 40 years. Found a city of brick, left a city of marble. Art by: #RaffaeleCaruso 🪷

🪷 On 11 Aug 117 AD the Legions proclaim #Hadrian Emperor of Rome. We celebrate it as a miracle without which #Antinous would never have been known. We recognize on this day that the beginning of Hadrian's era is the beginning of our own. Full details: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2022/08/legions-proclaim-hadrian-emperor.html Art by #RaffaeleCaruso 🪷

🪷 1 March 86 BC Sulla subjugates Athens and on 5 July 86 BC stages a military parade through streets lined with weeping Athenians, who forevermore despised Rome's undemocratic rule. Civilization has never recovered from the fall of Hellenistic ideals. Art: #RaffaeleCaruso​. 🪷