Tag: Roman Empire
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Ancient Greek Miracle Plant Rediscovered
This post was written by Giovanni Prete writing for the Greek Reporter GreekReporter.com – Ancient Greek Miracle Plant Used in Ancient Greece Rediscovered After 2,000 Years – December 2024 The “miracle” plant Silphium consumed by Ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians, which was thought to have become extinct two thousand years ago, has recently been rediscovered…
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A Happy Roman New Year
The Romans celebrated the New Year as a time of new beginnings and fresh starts, and New Year celebrations in ancient Rome were full of symbolism and held huge significance. Janus, the god who the month of January is named after, was often depicted with one face looking backward and another face looking forward, representing…
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Statius – An Ode to Sleep
An Ode To Sleep by Publius Papinius Statius, a Latin poet of the 1st century CE. Gentle divinity, how have I merited?Whither, unfortunate wretch, have I strayed,Thus of thy bounty to lie disenherited –I alone whilst every other is paid?Sleeping are cattle and birds without number,Beasts of the wilderness rest in their lair;Even the hills,…
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Saturnalia: The Roman festival that influenced Christmas
Antoine-François Callet’s Saturnalia 1783 “For a day and a night the cry of the Saturnalia resounded through the City, and the people were ordered to make that day a festival and observe it as such for ever” (Livy, History of Rome, XXII.1.19) Matt Salusbury wrote the following article and it was published in History Today, Volume 59, Issue…
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Unearthing the first ever Roman Funerary Bed discovered in London
Excavations at the site in central London The following article was written in 2024 by Vladimir Vulic for Roman Empire which can be found at roman-empire.net The discovery was made by a team from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) near Holborn Viaduct, situated in the heart of central London, approximately six meters (20 feet)…
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Echo and Narcissus
Narcissus and Echo (45–79 AD), wall painting from Pompeii 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…
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Cleopatra VII – Power, Romance & Rome
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Bust of Cleopatra VII in the Altes Museum, Berlin Her full name was Kleopatra VII Thea Philopator, the title Kleopatra, is Greek for ‘Glory of her Father’, and she was the seventh female in the royal dynasty of Egypt to be called a Kleopatra. Although she was born in Egypt, she could trace her family…
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Hercules and Dejanira.
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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Roman Road built by Agricola discovered in Scotland
The following is an article printed in The Independent newpaper in November 2023 by Laura Paterson An ancient Roman Road said to be used by key historical figures including William the Conqueror, Oliver Cromwell and every King and Queen of Scotland, has been found in a garden near Stirling. The road dates back almost 2,000…
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Volcanic Ash Concrete: The Marvel of Roman Engineering
Herod the Great’s Roman-built harbour at Caesarea Maritima, present-day Israel We’ve known about it for centuries, but now it seeems we are willing to study the properties and chemical mixture of Roman concrete in a little more depth, because it is particularly well suited to marine structures, and could help us out of what is now a global…
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