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In Roman law blind people experienced the least number of troubles, as there was a higher cultural value placed on speech rather than sight, but many blind people were still not given any extraordinary legal consideration. Blind people in Rome were seen as capable to provide and care for themselves as any other Roman citizen.
The theme of blindness has been explored by many different cultures throughout history, with blind characters appearing in stories from ancient Greek mythology and Judeo-Christian religious texts. In the modern era, blindness has featured in numerous works of literature and poetry by authors such as William Shakespeare , William Blake , and H ...
The history of hospitals began in antiquity with hospitals in Greece, the Roman Empire and on the Indian subcontinent as well, starting with precursors in the Asclepian temples in ancient Greece and then the military hospitals in ancient Rome. The Greek temples were dedicated to the sick and infirm but did not look anything like modern hospitals.
Ancient doctors were aware of the addictiveness of opium, and how dangerous an overdose was. [16] Greek physicians believed that opium could cause blindness and death. Roman doctors such as Dioscorides believed that Greek doctors were excessively paranoid about opium's risks.
An oeil-de-boeuf (French: [œj.dÉ™.bœf]; English: "bull's eye"), also œil de bœuf and sometimes anglicized as ox-eye window, is a relatively small elliptical window, typically for an upper storey, and sometimes set in a roof slope as a dormer, or above a door to let in natural light.
Via Appia within the ancient Minturno. Appius Claudius Caecus (fl. c. 312–279 BC) was a statesman and writer from the Roman Republic. He is best known for two major building projects: the Appian Way (Latin: Via Appia), the first major Roman road, and the first aqueduct in Rome, the Aqua Appia.
Didymus the Blind (alternatively spelled Dedimus or Didymous) [2] (c. 313 – 398) was a Christian theologian in the Church of Alexandria, where he taught for about half a century. He was a student of Origen , and, after the Second Council of Constantinople condemned Origen, Didymus's works were not copied.
Gaius Cassius Longinus came from a very old Roman family, gens Cassia, which had been prominent in Rome since the 6th century BC. Little is known of his early life, apart from a story that he showed his dislike of despots while still at school, by quarreling with the son of the dictator Sulla . [ 9 ]