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And now universal silence reigns: even the horn-footed steeds refuse to stand, even the fires are quenched in sudden ashes. But slumber woos not the anxious Greeks [the Argives attacked Thebes] to same repose, and the night-wandering, persuasive deity keeps his mists from the camp hard by...
. . says in the preface that the elder Mousai (Muses) are the daughters of Ouranos (Uranus, Heaven), and that there are other and younger Mousai, children of Zeus."Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "From Aether and Terra [were born various ...
Sons of Rome follows the childhood and the friendship of the two emperors, from the time when they are but the children of powerful men, through to the fall of the Tetrarchy and the seizure of power by both men, each claiming the same empire as their own. Buy the book here. The ...
This led to the Christians persecutions in the reigns of Decius and Diocletian. "Pagan Romans believed that society was protected by Pax Deorum meaning the peace or agreement with the gods. The gods protected the land and the people in return for sacrifice and worship. The Christians refused ...
The “freedman,” though a citizen, could not himself enter upon a public career; neither, in ordinary circumstances, could his children; but in the third generation the family stood on an entire equality with any other Roman family in that respect. For the present it may be added that ...
Drake had been very successful in defending Protestant England against their mortal foe, Roman Catholic Spain; so it is not hard to imagine that during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James, history would have been very kind to Drake. But, England eventually fell at the feet of the ...
Universal peace—the Pax Roma—reigns from Britannia to Egypt, from Gaul to Greece。 Marcus Aurelius, as much a philosopher as he is an emperor, oversees a golden age in the city of Rome。 The ancient Pinarius family and their workshop of artisans embellish the richest and greatest ci...
An interesting swing around in agriculture occurred between the reigns ofemperor ClaudiusandEmperor Domitian. Protracted periods of peace together with extension of Roman citizenship to other Italic peoples meant that the slave supply began to diminish and the cost of labour therefore increased. By thi...
(x. p. 471) he states that the Satyrs, Nymphs and Curetes were the children of the five daughters of Hecataeus and the daughter of Phoroneus. The more common statement is that the Satyrs were the sons of Hermes and Iphthima (Nonn.Dionys.xiv. 113), or of the Naiads (Xenoph....