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inEgypt, where the pharaohs had long been worshiped, and to peoples in theMiddle East, for similar reasons of religious custom. Even the Greeks were quite used to the idea that beings who lived a human life of extraordinary accomplishment, as “heroes” in the full sense of the Greek ...
Though later in life, Augustus adopted and encouraged a strict imperial strategy of maintaining the status quo of the borders ('Pax Romana'), war and conquest was a necessary strategy from the onset of his reign. Modern-day Germany (Germania) Switzerland (Raetia), Austria (Noricum), and the...
Caesar in Asia After Sulla pardoned Caesar, he still thought it a wise idea to avoid potentially falling back into disfavor. Caesar, at 20 years old, left Rome for Asia in 80 BC. He next joined the staff of the Asian governor, Praetor Marcus Minucius Thermus, and got an advance start ...
La Romana, located in the southeastern province of the Dominican Republic, serves as a prominent municipality and capital, situated directly across from Catalina Island. La Romana ranks among the ten… Las Terrenas Las Terrenas, an idyllic village located on the northeast coast of the Dominican Rep...
To the east, the Franks extended their domain in southern Germany, subjugatingThuringia(about 531 Chlotar I carried offRadegunda, a niece of the Thuringian king), the part of Alemannia between theNeckar Riverand the upper Danube (after 536), andBavaria. The latter was created as a dependent...
Happy New Year, and welcome back to The World of An Altar of Indignities, the blog series in which we look at some of the research that went into our latest novel set in the Roman Empire. If you missed Part V on the Roman Agora of Athens, you can read that by CLICKING HERE. In ...
The idea of the element of Spirit is very difficult to grasp. The letter Shin, which is the letter of Fire, has to do double duty by representing Spirit as well. Generally speaking, the attributions of Spirit are not clear and simple like those of the other elements. It is very remarkab...
The baths were commissioned by the Emperor Caracalla in the early 3rd century. They were enormous, and although much of the structure was pilfered and/or used to decorate and build other things in Rome and afar, you can still get an excellent idea of the quality of the architecture and eng...
There must be a word for the way a fleeting thought of pizza for dinner creeps in and quickly sprouts into a full, blinding desire—the single-minded resolution that pizza is the only option, the only thing that will satisfy. I sometimes wake with the idea of pizza for dinner firmly root...