The #ClassicsTober24 is now over. In the end, I created 31 posts in Twitter and copied them to Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon and Facebook. My most popular toot on Mastodon was Day 31: Sejanus with 7 favorites (stars).

#ClassicsTober24 Day 31: Sejanus. The last figure of #ClassicsTober: Lucius Aelius Sejanus (c. 20 BC-AD 31), a soldier who remodelled the Pretorian Guard, went to govern Rome when Tiberius withdrew to Capri. He became a consul in AD 31, but was accused of conspiracy & executed.
Note: the still photo is from the TV series 'I, Claudius' with young Patrick Stewart as Sejanus 🤩

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Flavius Cerealis, prefect of the 9th cohort of Batavians, lived with his wife Lepidina and their three children in the praetorium at Vindolanda in about 100 AD. He's one of the main characters in the Minimus books, seen here with Rufus, Vibrissa the cat and Minimus the mouse.
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#ClassicsTober24 Day 30: Flavius Cerealis. This soldier is the best known person from Vindolanda. He was the prefect of the ninth cohort of Batavians who lived in the praetorium of the fort with his family around AD 100. His correspondence covers 80 letters. #ClassicsTober
Illustration: Tab. Vindol. 248

#ClassicsTober24 Day 28: Crassus. Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BC) was the wealthiest key political figure during the Late Republican times. He defeated the Spartacus slave revolt, was a consul with Pompey and in the first triumvirate with Caesar and Pompey. #ClassicsTober

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Marcus Aquillius Regulus was a rich and famous orator, legacy-hunter and informer. Pliny the Younger tells us that when his son died, Regulus ordered statues and a biography of him, and the wholesale slaughter of the boy's pets as funeral sacrifices.
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#ClassicsTober24 Day 27: Menander I Soter. This monarch reigned c. 165/155-130 BC first around modern Afghanistan and later as an Indo-Greek king. He was a patron of Buddhism and according to tradition he embraced the faith. His corpus of silver and bronze coins is vast. #ClassicsTober

#ClassicsTober24 Day 26: Vitellius. A Roman emperor for eight months during the year of four emperors in AD 69. In the power battles he defeated Otho. He lost a battle to Vespasian and in the battles in Rome he ended up being executed. Suetonius described him as an obese glutton. #ClassicsTober

ClassicsTober 22 & #fabulamurina (mouse story) 318
Martialis, poeta Hispanus, epigramma de caseo maximo scribit (Martial, the Spanish poet, is writing an epigram about an enormous cheese). Silvius gestit caseum gustare (Silvius is impatient to try the cheese)!
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