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The duotone treatments, the crops and the caption typography are this project's own work and add no restriction to the underlying images. Every cover plate was licence-checked against the Wikimedia Commons API before it was downloaded; anything that came back as other than public domain was rejected rather than used.

Image Credits, Scrolls & Trolls

Local file(s)	Subject	Source	Author / photographer	License	Source URL
`cicero-duo.jpg`, `cicero-verm.jpg`	Bust of Marcus Tullius Cicero (Capitoline-type)	Wikimedia Commons	Freud (uploader); marble bust photographed	Public domain	source
`masks-strip.jpg`, `masks-color.jpg`	Roman mosaic of theatrical masks of Tragedy and Comedy, Thermae Decianae (Capitoline Museums)	Wikimedia Commons	Carole Raddato (photo); ancient mosaic	Public domain (PD-Art)	source
`socrates-duo.jpg`	Portrait bust of Socrates, Roman copy after a Lysippan original (Louvre)	Wikimedia Commons	Eric Gaba (Sting)	Public domain	source
`marcus-duo.jpg`	Bust of Marcus Aurelius, Glyptothek, Munich	Wikimedia Commons	Bibi Saint-Pol	Public domain	source
`satirist-duo.jpg`	Bronze "Pseudo-Seneca" bust, MAN Napoli (long misidentified as a Roman satirist; here a stand-in for the satiric tradition)	Wikimedia Commons	Carole Raddato	Public domain	source

Meme cover plates (added 2026-08-14)

Local file	Source work	Source	Author / photographer	License	Source URL
`assets/memes/01.jpg`	Jean-Léon Gérôme - Diogenes - Walters 37131.jpg	Wikimedia Commons	Jean-Léon Gérôme	Public domain	source
`assets/memes/02.jpg`	Gaius Iulius Caesar (Vatican Museum).jpg	Wikimedia Commons	Unknown authorUnknown author	Public domain	source
`assets/memes/03.jpg`	Odysseus Sirens BM E440.jpg	Wikimedia Commons	Siren Painter (eponymous vase)	Public domain	source
`assets/memes/04.jpg`	Laozi.jpg	Wikimedia Commons	Laozi	Public domain	source
`assets/memes/05.jpg`	Circus Mosaic (Fourviere).jpg	Wikimedia Commons	Unknown authorUnknown author	Public domain	source
`assets/memes/06.jpg`	Lawrence Alma-Tadema 06.jpeg	Wikimedia Commons	Lawrence Alma-Tadema	Public domain	source
`assets/memes/07.jpg`	Sanzio 01.jpg	Wikimedia Commons	Raphael	Public domain	source
`assets/memes/08.jpg`	Trajan's Column - NMR - panel 057 A.jpg	Wikimedia Commons	Joe Mabel	Public domain	source
`assets/memes/09.jpg`	Bacchus-Caravaggio (1598).jpg	Wikimedia Commons	Caravaggio	Public domain	source
`assets/memes/10.jpg`	Titian - Sisyphus - Madrid - Prado.jpg	Wikimedia Commons	Titian	Public domain	source
`assets/memes/11.jpg`	Akhilleus Patroklos Antikensammlung Berlin F2278.jpg	Wikimedia Commons	Sosias (potter, signed). Painting attributed to	Public domain	source
`assets/memes/12.jpg`	Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Proserpine - Google Art Project.jpg	Wikimedia Commons	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Public domain	source
`assets/memes/13.jpg`	Cubiculum 42 mosaic depicting a labyrinth with Theseus and Minotaur em	Wikimedia Commons	Unknown 1st century CE Roman mosaicist; photogra	Public domain	source
`assets/memes/14.jpg`	Arnold Böcklin - Odysseus und Polyphemus (1896).jpg	Wikimedia Commons	Arnold Böcklin	Public domain	source
`assets/memes/15.jpg`	Nietzsche187a.jpg	Wikimedia Commons	Friedrich Hermann Hartmann	Public domain	source
`assets/memes/16.jpg`	Medusa by Carvaggio.jpg	Wikimedia Commons	Caravaggio	Public domain	source
`assets/memes/17.jpg`	Villa dei Misteri IX - 1.jpg	Wikimedia Commons	WolfgangRieger	Public domain	source