"If an enemy spy has infiltrated the Roman camp, the soldiers should all be ordered back to their tents in the middle of the day - the spy will be detected immediately!" (Vegetius, Military Matters, 3.26) #roman#army#espionage
Currently working on this fiddly commissioned oil painting "Swansea From The Beach, Revisited" - commission me to paint your favourite place or scene - https://t.co/iGtgxKxjyl #commissions#Swansea#Wales#EmmaCownie
When Rome defeated the Seleucid king Antiochus the Great in 188 BC, the peace treaty entitled the Roman general Quintus Fabius Labeo to half of the king’s warships. Instead, he literally cut all the ships in half, depriving Antiochus of his entire fleet. #roman#history
an impression (half remembered) that is somewhat related to the post Industrial landscape of Dundee in east Scotland...
'It must have been raining the day I imagined being there'
framing options are available
#art#painting#kunst