Roman Times

An online magazine about current archaeology and classical research into the lives of inhabitants of the Roman Empire and Byzantium and the civilizations around them.

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Monday, May 18, 2020

Those who desire not to rule but to dominate

Those who desire... not to rule but to dominate—words which are thought to have the same meaning, although between them there is the utmost...

Saturday, May 16, 2020

A physician as "lower middle class" in the Roman world

Galen blood letting by Robert Thom (before 1958) A history resource article by Mary Harrsch © 2020 I'm working on my article abou...

Owls: Symbols of Wisdom or Harbingers of Death

Those of us who study the ancient world are familiar with Athena's owl and its association with wisdom and vigilance but even in the an...

Nero: Hating those who denounce your mistakes

You are wont to hate not so much those who are responsible for your mistakes as those who undertake to denounce them. Isocrates. On The P...

Friday, May 15, 2020

Terracotta sarcophagi of the Ionian Greeks at Clazomenae

Clazomenae was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia and a member of the Ionian League. It was one of the first cities to issue silve...

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