The position of the Roman woman after marriage was very different from that of the Greek. She presided over the whole household, educated her children, watched over and preserved the honor of the house, and shared the honors and respect shown to her husband. Funerals: When a Roman was at ...
when sherds of a rough clay urn, now lost, were recovered from one.Cairn I,the most westerly, is surrounded by a circle of 11 upright monoliths; four of the stones had fallen and were replaced last century, perhaps
"The Port of Monoikos (Solitary) [Monaco] affords a mooring-place for no large ships . . . and it has a temple of Herakles Monoikos, as he is called; and it is reasonable to conjecture from the name that the coastal voyages of the [Greek] Massiliotes reach even as far as the Po...
In full, the altar’s Greek inscription reads, “Atheneon son of Sosipatros of Antioch is dedicating the altar to the god Pan Heliopolitanus. He built the altar using his own personal money in fulfillment of a vow he made.” Heliopolitanus is a name typically linked not with Pan, but...
Just off the courtyard, in the church's narthex, or lobby area, there is "a fine mosaic floor decorated with colored geometric designs" as well as a "twelve-row dedicatory inscription in Greek containing the names 'Mary' and 'Jesus', and the name of the person who funded the mosaic's...
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The word M esopotamia is Greek for "the land between the rivers." Mesopotamia was the most fertile land in the Near East, and possibly in the world. It was here that agriculture, or land cultivation, first fully developed around 9000 b.c.e., Sometime around 6000 b.c.e., ...
1Not just Hebrew and Greek, but Latin and German and all other languages, each of which, according to Luther, is sanctified by its use in proclaiming God’s Word. 2Hebrew and Greek, but also, Latin and German and all other languages by which the Gospel is proclaimed. ...
Hylas and the Nymphs by Waterhouse (1896) Lastly, we come to perhaps one of the most well-known groups of numina in Greek and Roman religion: the Nymphs. The Nymphs were female nature spirits of objects or places such as trees, springs, rivers, mountains etc. They were everywhere and we...
The Digital Classicist wiki provides a clearing-house listing digital projects and tools of relevance to classicists.70 As a member partner, AGP contributed data, translations and controlled vocabularies to EAGLE (the Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy). EAGLE was a European ...