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Rethinking Rome’s “Most Reluctant” Emperor
Roman Grand Strategy Under Tiberius (Bokförlaget Stolpe, 2024) In AD 9, three Roman legions suffered a massacre in a ...
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Second Servile War: The Soothsayer’s Slave Rebellion That Shook Rome
Even though the revolt of the would-be slave-king Eunus ended in bloodshed and defeat for the slaves of Sicily, the dreams ...
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Which Roman emperor was the most like Donald Trump?
Something tells me US president Donald Trump would love to be a Roman emperor. The mythology of unrestrained power with ...
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Porta Collina, Sulla’s Nocturnal Victory That Caused the Etruscans and Samnites to Cease Existing as Independent Peoples
Porta Collina (Hill Gate) was one of the entrances to Ancient Rome, opened, according to tradition, by King Servius Tullius ...
Cardinals enter Sistine Chapel for papal conclave under total digital lockdown
The 133 cardinals will remain in total seclusion within the Sistine Chapel and its adjoining buildings until they choose from among themselves the next pope.
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Marcus Terentius Varro, the Roman scholar who conceived the existence of microorganisms sixteen centuries before their discovery
When looking for the origin of microbiology, it is typical to refer to the latter part of the 19th century, when it developed ...
Cardinals set to begin voting on a new pope. Here's what to know.
Every new pope is seen as a successor to St. Peter, the apostle believed by Catholics to have been appointed by Jesus as the head of the church. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells him, “You are ...