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Shall Rome stand under one man's awe? What, Rome? My ancestors did from the streets of Rome the Tarquin drive, when he was call'd a king. Tarquin, under his first name Sextus, is present with the Etruscan army in Thomas Babington Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, when Lars Porsena, King of Clusium, attempts to restore the Tarquin dynasty to the ...
Julia from Apulia: A servant hired by Padway who has a one-night stand with him. Dorothea: Daughter of Cornelius Anicius and love interest for Padway. Leo Vekkos: Greek physician called in by Nevitta, against Padway's protests, to treat his cold. Count Honorius: City prefect/governor. Liuderis: Commander of the Goths' garrison in Rome.
In a cosmogony given by Aristophanes in his play The Birds (414 BC), which is often believed to be a parody of an Orphic theogony, [15] Erebus is one of the first deities to exist, alongside Chaos, Night, and Tartarus. At the beginning of creation, Night lays a "wind-egg" in the "boundless bosom of Erebus", from which springs golden-winged Eros ...
Hostilius was probably a historical figure, however, in the strict sense that a man bearing the name Tullus Hostilius likely reigned as king in Rome. The most compelling evidence is his name: "Tullus" is an unusual praenomen in Roman culture, and his gentile name is obscure and linguistically archaic enough to rule out the possibility that he ...
Perhaps a pet name for Nannium the Younger, or else a distinct hetaera with a similar name. [76] [77] Nannium (Νάννιον) early 5th century BC According to a later, doubtful story, one of four hetaerae whom Themistocles yoked to a chariot and paraded through the Ceramicus of Athens. [78] [77] Nannium (Νάννιον) the Elder
The king of Rome (Latin: rex Romae) was the ruler of the Roman Kingdom, a legendary period of Roman history that functioned as an elective monarchy. [1] According to legend, the first king of Rome was Romulus, who founded the city in 753 BC upon the Palatine Hill. Seven legendary kings are said to have ruled Rome until 509 BC, when the last ...
Luca Guadagnino’s new film “Queer” opens with a series of tableaux — little still-life images of glasses, trinkets and books. The objects are meant to evoke the lives of its two lead ...
Rome contains numerous ancient sites, including the Forum Romanum, Trajan's Market, Trajan's Forum, [167] the Colosseum, and the Pantheon, to name but a few. The Colosseum, arguably one of Rome's most iconic archaeological sites, is regarded as a wonder of the world. [168] [169]