A remarkable Roman mosaic showing a children's choir or Schola Cantorum, who would have performed sacred choral music at religious ceremonies. Fifteen young singers are depicted – possibly thirteen girls and two boys – all dressed in vibrant blue tunics, as well as an older choirmaster at the back. From the Temple of Diana Tifatina near Capua, today the Basilica of Sant'Angelo in Formis, 2nd-3rd century AD, Capua Provincial Museum of Campania.
@OptimoPrincipi Very cool! But they dont look very happy to be singing…
@OptimoPrincipi Lovely. I don't, however, see anyone I would identify as a girl. We should work for equality today, not try to adjust history to justify ourselves. We are not doing ourselves any favours. Future historians will, at best, laugh at us. Condecendingly. Let's not burn books.
@OptimoPrincipi Did they sing this? youtube.com/watch?v=dVjRdv… Segments taken from Theodora, Slave Empress. 1954. Often overlooked by Hollywood, Constantinople Emperors can be also found in Sign of the Pagans & Kampf fur Rom (The Last Roman). Looking at @JemDuducu History forgotten nuggets.
@OptimoPrincipi I wonder how much of the original pagan style of singing & chanting did later Christians adopted. Would be nice to hear these choirs perform in the context of a Greco-Roman (non-christian) spiritual tradition.
@OptimoPrincipi Doesn't look much different than the Christmas program at my kid's school.
@OptimoPrincipi I'd really like to listen to that sound.
@OptimoPrincipi Not a pretty bunch, are they?