Atticus, with its trendy Roman feel combined with the upstanding, noble image of Atticus Finch inTo Kill a Mockingbird, is a real winner amongboy names. Atticus entered the US Top 1000 in 2004 and is a firm Nameberry favorite. Jasper originated as a variation of the Latin Gaspar, which ul...
which in many ways can be related to the more ancient practice of ritual intercourse between king and priestess to ensure fertility of the land. There is little proof of this sort of practice in Rome, but at the Roman city of Paestum a brothel has been found annexed to a temple ofVenus...
The ancient Roman goddess Juno was an early Italic deity, associated with the cycles of the moon, of childbirth and of marriage. She is often portrayed breastfeeding a child. Her image slowly transformed from one of nurturing mother into one of a stern matron who was having to keep an eter...
Atticus, with its trendy Roman feel combined with the upstanding, noble image of Atticus Finch inTo Kill a Mockingbird, is a real winner amongboy names. Atticus entered the US Top 1000 in 2004 and is a firm Nameberry favorite. Origin: ...
Roman sources say that Romulus, the founder of Rome, chose 100 men to be the first members of the Senate and that he called these men patres, or fathers. This was the beginning of the patrician class, which ruled Rome for centuries. People in Roman society who were not patricians or sl...
. In the days of Shakespeare,antiquewas often used forancient; as, “anantiquesong,”“anantiqueRoman;” and hence, from singularity often attached to what is ancient, it was used in the sense of grotesque; as, “an oak whoseantiqueroot peeps out; ” and hence came our present wordantic...
The goddess of youth, cared for males who had passed the threshold from boys to men. Victoria She was the Roman goddess of triumph. Pax The Roman goddess of peace. Venus Her equivalent in Greek mythology would be Aphrodite. She is theGoddess of Beautyand her symbol is a shell. She was...
We do feel for that host. But what was all this ‘status seating’ about? In a relatively well-off Roman household, three couches in a triclinium were standard. These were arranged around a low table, or mensa, and these couches had specific names and purposes. The lectus medius, the ...
Ancient Roman inventions in ClothingAncient Roman clothing: The StolaSocks, especially men’s socks were an item of Roman clothing–long ones for the military in cold northern countries, but also for ancient Roman women or actors of comedy. The latter two were known as “soccus“. Soccus ...
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