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1) The best preserved Roman military diploma to survive from the ancient world: These highly prized bronze legal documents were issued to retiring non-citizen soldiers upon successful completion of their
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Happy Lupercalia! The origins of the ancient pastoral festival are shadowy even to Romans but on this day we observe ancient rites of fertility, health and purification. The goatskin whips
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1) Lucretius argues for the existence of atoms...in 60 BC:"Things cannot be created out of nothing or reduced to nothing. You may distrust my words since atoms cannot be seen
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The Basilica Ulpia towered over Trajan's Forum complex, the architectural culmination of all the imperial fora. Completed in 112 AD with construction overseen by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus, it
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1) After the ascendance of Christianity, which eventually became the Roman state religion in 380 AD, Augustine had some witty barbs on what he saw as the quaint ideas of
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1) The Temple of the Divine Claudius was a vast temple complex on Rome's Caelian Hill, overlooking the valley that would later be occupied by the Colosseum. Though almost nothing
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1/4) "His military training gives the Roman soldier a resilient physique but also a resolute spirit. Roman military law means the death penalty for any soldier who abandons his post
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6) Soon afterwards Tolkien would begin creating his legendarium of Middle-earth with both “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” revolving around the magical, golden and often-stolen One Ring
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1/6) It is important to remember that without modern medicine, many in the ancient world endured chronic conditions that today we could treat. Seneca suffered from asthma and described how
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1/7) A powerful plea to the Emperor asking for religious tolerance ..coming not from a Christian, but from a Pagan - the senator Symmachus, petitioning the Emperor in 384 AD
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1/5) Pliny the Younger had little time for spectator sports or the fickle fans, obsessive in their support for their favoured colour chariot-racing team:"I am not in the least bit
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1) In the early 3rd century a man named Lossio Veda came to Roman Camulodunum (modern Colchester), where he made a dedication to Mars Medocius and the Victory of the
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