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Showing posts with label Claudius. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Claudius. Show all posts
Friday, January 1, 2021

Roman emperor as pharaoh

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A block that originally formed part of a screen wall that connected the four front columns and the sidewalls of the temple of Harendotes (...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Did Claudius die accidentally of poison mushrooms or marital treachery?

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A history resource article by Mary Harrsch  © 2015 Bust of the Roman Emperor Claudius Photographed at the Museo Archaeologico Nazio...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Review: Claudius by Douglas Jackson

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" Claudius " by Douglas Jackson really isn't about the emperor Claudius but about his invasion of Britain as seen through...
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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Hail Caesar: The evolution of family name to imperial title

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"The princes who by their birth or their adoption belonged to the family of the Caesars, took the name of Caesar.    After the death o...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Could New MIT program use Pyrgi Tablets to Decipher Etruscan?

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The Pyrgi tablets contain a treatise inscribed in both Etruscan and Phoenician script.  Image courtesy of Wikimedia user Pufacz . Bein...
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Sunday, July 18, 2010

Don't miss my review of Steven Saylor's "Empire"!!

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I just finished an extensive review of Steven Saylor's new novel "Empire" and posted it to my Books and Novels of the Ancien...
Sunday, October 5, 2008

Roman cellars in Lisbon architectural mystery

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THEY OPEN but once a year and the queues to see them are so long they stretch the entire length of two blocks. They are Lisbon’s ancient Rom...
Saturday, June 16, 2007

Gallic-Romano mythology - Tarvos Trigaranus

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I uploaded some more images from the Met today and among them are several images of a bronze three-horned bull (unfortunately the center ho...
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