; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" override - ride (a horse) too hard ride herd - driving animals such...
There were orreries in ancient times already. People have always been fascinated by planets and the sky (heavens). Orrery was used by the Greeks and Romans. But, it got its name much later, in 1704 when it was presented to Earl of Orrery, and the rest is history. You can check out ...
That changed in 597, when a group of monks arrived from Rome, bringing with them both the Latin language and the Latin alphabet. Why Latin gets a mention I’ll admit to a built-in bias toward the Latin alphabet–it’s the first one I learned and the only one I don’t have to so...
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What, we may ask, led Euripides to choose as a subject of tragedy the strange tale of the madness of Heracles? The Attic associations of the myth, which were his main concern in theHeracleidae, cannot have been his chief motive... EM Blaiklock - 《Greece & Rome》 被引量: 2发表: 19...
Use the following instructions to download the COCO-Stuff dataset and setup the folder structure. The instructions are for Ubuntu and require git, wget and unzip. On other operating systems the commands may differ: # Get this repo git clone https://github.com/nightrome/cocostuff.git cd coco...
Use the following instructions to download the COCO-Stuff dataset and setup the folder structure. The instructions are for Ubuntu and require git, wget and unzip. On other operating systems the commands may differ:# Get this repo git clone https://github.com/nightrome/cocostuff.git cd coco...
what does Caesar do at the Rubicon river? he leaves all but one legion of men behind and marches to Rome dude who helped assassinate Caesar (might have been his son) Marcus Brutus what was the school Aristotle created called? Lyceum what did Aristotle believe ethics meant? doing what was ...
This was Rome and thePax Romana. The “Peace of Rome” was frequently the peace of the grave, and those who idealize it are fools. However, it’s fascinating. Also, I guess the Roman Empire was better than squatting in some miserable mud hut and selecting an unpopular villager for the...
It is possible to trace at least part of the long way the cameo travelled from the Emperor's treasure house in Rome to the Rijksmueum Oudheden in Leiden, The Netherlands, mostly thanks to meticulous recordkeeping of the Dutch East India Company. Time line of events Date Place Events 31...