Category: Everything Latin
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Ovid: The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) Book I Part I: His Task
Illustration by Frederico Righi Publius Ovidius Naso 43 BC – c. 17 AD Should anyone here not know the art of love, read this, and learn by reading how to love. By art the boat’s set gliding, with oar and sail, by art the chariot’s swift: love’s ruled by art. Automedon was skilled with Achilles’s chariot…
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Roman-Era Cemetery unearthed in UK
By Lianne Kolirin, CNN, March 13th 2023 The remains of a Roman aristocrat have been unearthed by archaeologists in northern England. The skeleton of the unidentified woman, believed to be more than 1,000 years old, was found in a lead coffin in a hidden cemetery in the city of Leeds last year. The remains of 62 people were dug up…
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How the Romans kept poisonous, narcotic seeds concealed in bone vials
The hollowed-out animal bone was used to store poisonous seeds during the Roman era. (Image credit: BIAX Consult) By Jennifer Nalewicki, published in Live Science February 8, 2024 Nearly 2,000 years ago, someone used a hollowed-out piece of bone as a container for storing hundreds of poisonous seeds. Archaeologists found the carved-out animal femur, or thigh bone, which…
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Octavian
”Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one” When Julius Caesar and his his legions had finished their conquest of Gaul, a million Gauls and Germans were dead, and a million more were enslaved. In his decade-long conquest of what is today France, Belguim, North-West Italy and a small part of the Rhineland, Caesar…
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The Dramatic Funeral Procession of Julius Caesar
This article was posted on June 18, 2021 by Ron Current stillcurrent.blog/2021/06/18/the-roman-forum-searching-for-caesar I thought it was really interesting read and it is something that isn’t common knowledge for a lot of people. Peter Stothard’s book The Last Assassin details a part of the story behind Current’s article, it’s a great read and was published by Weidenfeld &…
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The Death of Cygnus
Praise for Tales from Ovid: ‘A breathtaking book…To compare his versions with the Latin is to be awestruck again and again by the range and ingenuity of his poetic intelligence…He rescues the old gods and goddesses from the classical dictionaries and gives them back their terror. There should be a copy of his book in…
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Mass grave discovered from forgotten Roman defeat
By Jordan Joseph Earth.com staff writer 8th August 2025 Workers leveling a worn soccer field in Vienna’s Simmering district paused when their backhoe claw scraped Roman bones instead of gravel. By the time the dust settled, archaeologists counted the mixed remains of about 150 young men, each scarred by combat and hurriedly covered by soil…
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Hesiod & The Five Ages of Mankind
Marble bust of Hesiod The Five Ages of Man is a creation story written by a Greek shepherd named Hesiod, who lived somewhere between 776 BC and 650 BC, who along with Homer was one of the epic writers of Greek poetry. It is likely that Hesiod ‘borrowed’ some of his poem from an unidentified…
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Pontius Pilate
A stone with a circa 30 CE Latin dedicatory inscription of Pontius Pilate was discovered in Israel’s Caesarea port in the early 1960s. (Collection of Israel Antiquities Authority/ © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem) The Pilate Stone is an engraved stone bearing the name of Pontius Pilate, the Perfectus of Judaea in 26-36 AD. The stone was found…
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Ancient mosaic returns to Pompeii: Cultural treasure repatriated after Nazi theft
As reported by Giada Zampano & Andrea Rosa in The Independent online on Tuesday 15 July 2025 An erotic-themed mosaic from the Roman era was returned to Pompeii on Tuesday after being stolen by a Nazi during the Second World War. The mosaic panel, on travertine slabs, depicting an erotic theme from the Roman era, was returned to the archaeological park of…
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