He was the first Roman General to basically take over the empire at sword point. He didn’t lose a battle and basically kicked everyone’s buts that he met. This guy was awesome, Sulla was a highly original, gifted and skilful general, never losing a battle. He remains the only man in...
Pan/bow over arrow over ΠANTI Struck 340-325 BC. [One page with the most common AE types.] Dates: Third to First Centuries BC Roman Republican Coin Types and their Dating Republican coins are not explicitly dated, so how can we know their dates? A long timeline page of examples plus ...
Finley about the paucity of true documentation of Roman history, see “How Much Do We Really Know About Human History?” In discussing the documentary evidence from Roman history, Finley wrote: For the whole of antiquity, in sum, what we have at our disposal (apart from Athens) is a ...
Classical Myth: The Ancient SourcesThis site is designed to draw together the ancient texts and images available on the Web concerning the major figures of Greek and Roman mythology. Mythology Page. You can find an explanation of what Greek mythology is all about and how it started, you can ...
If you missed Part V on the Roman Agora of Athens, you can read that by CLICKING HERE. In Part VI, we’re going to be exploring two ancient sites that are not really known to the average tourist but which were important in the world of ancient Athens: the Hill of Ardittos, and the...
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Thus it was from India that the ancient Persians are said to have learnt this game, and from them it was transmitted to the Greco Roman world. The evidence of the Persians having borrowed this game from India is seen in the name the Persians gave to it. The Persian word for chess is ...
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Queen of Heaven and Earth,” (and you’ll see why I say eventual again, eventually) Inanna appears in the earliest god lists; she has been there since the beginning, as far back as 4000 BC, and pretty much set up the game for the Greek Aphrodite and Athena, as well as the Roman ...
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