What do a.m. and p.m. mean? These abbreviations stand for ante meridiem, before midday, and post meridiem, after midday, and they are a Roman invention. According to Daniel Boorstin in his book The Discoverers, this simple division of the day into two parts was the Romans' first increm...
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In European Christian theology, hope is traditionally considered to be a virtue associated with the grace of God. Hope was “naturally" bestowed upon people rather than being earned by work or self-improvement. European artists followed the Greco-Roman tradition of representing hope in the ...
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Gaius Julius Caesar (100 BC –44 BC) was a Roman general, historian and statesman. He invaded Britain (55BC), crushed the army of his political enemy Pompey (48BC), pursued other enemies to Egypt, where he installed Cleopatra as queen (47BC), returned to Rome, and was given a mandate...
The Invention of Law in the West, trans. Jeremy Carden and Antony Shugaar, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Siliquini-Cinelli, Luca. 2024. Scientia Iuris: Knowledge and Experience in Legal Education and Practice from the Late Roman Republic to Artificial Intelligence. ...
It wasn't the world's first odometer; rudimentary mileage recorders had been appearing as far back as ancient Roman times. Franklin's design also wasn't the last odometer; inventors in Nova Scotia and the Midwest would independently conceive of similar devices in decades to come. However, none...
Even though the ancient Greco-Roman geographer Claudius Ptolemy (circa 100-170 AD) never travelled this far east, he must have been able to obtain information about the region through other travellers, because he produced a map where the Ganges Delta is depicted with a remarkable degree of acur...
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Hoag demonstrates similarly the way in which Grotius relied heavily in Augustine—not noting the latter’s reliance on Roman jurisprudence. Google Scholar Robert Hoag, “The Recourse to War as Punishment: A Historical Theme in Just War Theory,” Studies in the History of Ethics 2 (2006): 5...