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unusual facts about Roman history



Duumviri

Such pairs of magistrates were appointed at various periods of Roman history both in Rome itself and in the colonies and municipia.

Ivan Jensen

Jensen was an educated teacher, and attended several courses in Roman history at the University of Bologna during his time in Bologna.


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Adrian Goldsworthy

His expertise is in Roman history, but he also taught a course on the military history of the Second World War at the University of Notre Dame.

Alexander Stockton Cussons

Alexander was also interested in Roman history, and was involved in fundraising for reconstruction efforts on Hadrian's Wall.

Annalists

Livy regards him as a less trustworthy authority than Fabius Pictor, and Niebuhr considers him the first to introduce systematic forgeries into Roman history.

Art repatriation

The scale of plundering that took place under Napoleon's French Empire was unprecedented in modern history with the only comparable looting expeditions taking place in ancient Roman history.

Elizabeth Wood-Ellem

Returning to Australia in 1937, Elizabeth was educated Methodist Ladies' College in Melbourne where, in her final year, she topped the state in Greek and Roman History.

Francis Charles Massingberd

The previous summer, together with his friend William Ralph Churton, he had accompanied Thomas Arnold in a visit to Italy to determine the line of Hannibal's passage over the Alps, and to explore the battlefields of his campaign, for the purposes of Arnold's Roman History.

Leonhard Schmitz

He studied at the University of Bonn, where he earned a Ph.D., and was in particular influenced by Barthold Georg Niebuhr; Schmitz later published in England a collection of notes taken from Niebuhr's lectures as Lectures on Roman History (1844).

Otello

:He continues by discussing his own preoccupation with Emperor Nero and his love for the period of Ancient Roman history as works on his own opera, Nerone

Psylli

In his Roman History, Cassius Dio makes reference to the Psylli as being sought out by Octavian to draw out the snake venom with which Cleopatra had poisoned herself (LI.14).

Roman triumph

Brennan, T. Corey: "Triumphus in Monte Albano", 315-337 in R. W. Wallace & E. M. Harris (eds.) Transitions to Empire. Essays in Greco-Roman History, 360-146 B.C., in honor of E. Badian (University of Oklahoma Press, 1996) ISBN 0-8061-2863-1

The Wounds of Civil War

Lodge's primary source on the First Civil War in ancient Rome was the Roman History of Appian; an English translation of Appian's work, by "W. B.," had been published by Henry Bynneman in 1578.