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3 days ago · Learn about the sexual attitudes and behaviors in ancient Rome, from legal and literary sources. Find out how stuprum, a term for sexual misconduct, was regulated and punished in Roman society.
4 days ago · The Roman empire developed a huge trade in olive oil, from Spain and North Africa, which went across the empire in giant earthen jars. ... with reports of pigs lard being used to adulterate ghee ...
2 days ago · “In Zeugma (Türkiye), near border with Syria. Zeugma served as one of most important trading centers of Eastern Roman Empire” “The Balcony House In Mesa Verde National Park In Colorado Is One Of The Park’s Best Preserved Rock Dwellings” “Built around 1200 AD, this site has 40 rooms and two chimneys, placed inside a natural playground.
1 day ago · “Another damn’d, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh, Mr Gibbon?” Thus spoke William Henry, Duke of Gloucester to the historian Edward Gibbon. Many aesthetes will still remember Gibbon and his monstrous work, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. A small band of fanatical genealogists may still remember the Duke ...
3 days ago · Learn how Roman sexuality differed from the contemporary West, and how it changed over time. Explore the literature, art, and history of same-sex relations in ancient Rome.
5 days ago · Definitely Roman activity is attested by a dozen inscribed pigs of lead, to be enumerated below, and by others which, though uninscribed, have been found among Roman remains, such as four discovered by Skinner, which vary in weight from eighty to one hundred pounds.
2 days ago · Learn about the polytheistic religion of the Romans, influenced by Greek, Etruscan, and local cults. Explore the practices, beliefs, deities, priesthoods, and imperial cult of ancient Rome.
