I always felt bad about a quirky thing causing me to skip seeing the Vettii villa just before it closing for umpteen years of restoral. Now I can feel more at peace since I see I hate Roman painting aesthetic right to the core: lurid and cluttered. Same applies even to Nero's house where I just missed seeing it's opening; it's more tasteful colors don't redeem the childish scrawl. Architecture and sculpture is where ancient Rome excels for me.

The above aerial tour of Rome should not be seen as focused on the ugly typewriter monument, but views FROM it. I was too cheap to pay for entrance when it first opened, and now see it to be like the only skyscraper in Paris; when you are on top of it you see everything except the eyesore itself. This Roman site tour guy is doing more and more with drones and artful music. Of many roof gardens, one that goes by too fast is over the top. It may start up in lower res, but can run in 4k. Would make a nice loop to play continuously on an idle TV?

Circus Maximus in Rome 29m from Walks inside Rome

Rome's Aqueduct Park 26m from Walks inside Rome

Ostia Antica 64m from Walks inside Rome

Rome's Ancient Bridges 29m from Walks inside Rome

The Colosseum 40m from Walks inside Rome

Hadrian's Villa 48m from Walks inside Rome

Pompeii 28m from Walks inside Rome

Castel Sant Angelo 31m from Walks inside Rome

Via Appia Antica 30m from Walks inside Rome

Tomb of the Baker 10m from Walks inside Rome

Newest Discoveries at Pompeii 9m from Ancient Rome Live

Secret Sites Near Pompeii 9m from Ancient Rome Live

Discover Pompeii from Above 17m from Ancient Rome Live

Volterra (forum) (20m) from Prowalk Tours

Pompeii Walking Tour 91m from Italy Together

Circo di Massenzio e il Mausoleo di Cecilia Metella, Rome 4m from Andrea

Quintili Villa, Rome 3m from Viagga e Impara

Life and Death in Herculaneum BBC 59m from Cardo Maximus

Baths of Diocletian, Rome 8m from Ancient Rome Live

Ephesus Turkey 12m from Kara and Nate

Baths of Caracalla, Rome 7m from RomeWise

Tunisia Coliseum 9m from Alvaro Garnero - Alem das Fronteiras

Rome's Wall 25m from Daniele from Rome

Capua Amphitheater 39m from Prowalk Tours

Pozzuoli Amphitheater 23m from Prowalk Tours

Amphitheater Pula Croatia 16m from TWR Music

Baalbeck Lebanon 4m from Anthony Rahayel

Pont du Gard, France 4m from LiewerLine

Villa Jovis, Capri, Italy 2m from ProFlights

Diocletian's Palace, Split, Croatia 15m from Darius Arya Digs

Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily Italy 4m from Samuel Magal

Rome's Forum 51m from Prowalk Tours

Segovia Aqueduct 8m from moomoo away

Theater of Marcellus, Rome 7m from Darius Arya Digs

Nimes, the French Rome 12m from France 24 English

Beit Shean, Israel 12m from Sergio and Rhoda in Israel

Nero's Golden House, Rome 5m from RomeWise

Leptis Magna, Libya 5m from Drew Binsky

Djemila, Algeria 4m from Drew Binsky

Jerash, Jordan 4m from Votocek Art Company

Rome's Pantheon 15m from Italy4Real

Sagalassos Turkey 3m from  Dunyanin Renkleri / Polo / İnBinGez Seyahatleri

Villa Oplontis near Naples 3m from Samuel Magal

Trajan's Market, Rome 3m from Jacek Mroz

Hippodrome Constantinople 6m from The History of Byzantium Podcast

JERUSALEM - Roman authorities are investigating controversial religious leader Jesus of Nazareth for violating the Empire's clear "stay in tomb" order.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/screenrant.com/top-best-movies-set-ancient-rome-ranked-imdb/amp/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10937004/

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The Way of the Wind^[2] is an upcoming epic biblical drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick and produced by Josh Jeter. Starring Géza Röhrig as Jesus, the film retells his story. Alongside Rohrig, Mark Rylance stars as Satan, Matthias Schoenaerts as Saint Peter while Ben Kingsley, Joseph Fiennes, Tawfeek Barhom, Douglas Booth, and Aidan Turner star in supporting roles.

Looks like a good cast and an interesting biblical interpretation. Has anybody watched it yet? 

I can understand avoiding TV due to spewage of woke commercials, but use that fast forward button. They even revive having real expert commentators instead of the trend towards slangy pierced woke figureheads mouthing scripts they don't understand. I'm a little embarrassed about Romans love of such games and would prefer to follow their more popular horseracing,  but this series apparently redeems itself with wider context.

Baths of Diocletian Museum 8m Rome:

Palazzo Massimo 9m Rome:

Pio-Clementine Museum 10m Vatican:

Uffizi Roman Galleries 8m Florence:

Antalya Museum 44m Turkey:

Capitoline Museums 22m Rome:

Palazzo Altemps 5m Rome:

Gregorian Profane Museum 3m Vatican:

Profano Museum (misidentified?) 6m Vatican:

******Spoiler******
Predictably, Mary wins hands down!😂

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“The 1962 Rudolf Maté film depicts the three-day long Battle of Thermopylae, which was fought between an alliance of ancient Greek city-states and Persian invaders. “The 300 Spartans” was made with cooperation from the Greek government, and therefore was filmed in the Peloponnese, southern Greece. The comic book which inspired the aforementioned flick “300” (2006) would not have existed if it wasn’t for The 300 Spartans. The graphic novel was written by Frank Miller, who watched the 1962 movie as a child and felt compelled to make his own art based on it.“

 

I will have to check out a few of these movies:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/07/14/movies-based-on-greek-mythology/

Emperor, Imperator a film by Konrad Łęcki (in Latin and Teutonic :) - YouTube

I am looking forward to this series. Hopefully, it will be available on Netflix soon:

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“The story of Livia Drusilla, from her early life as a naive young girl in the wake of Julius Caesar's assassination, through her rise to become the emperor Augustus' wife, becoming Rome's most powerful and influential empress.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domina_(TV_series)