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Roman Mater: The Etruscan influence on the role of Roman women

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Roman Mater: The Etruscan influence on the role of Roman women
By Elizabeth Davis
Honors Bachelor of Arts Thesis, Xavier University, 2012
Introduction: During the early Roman Empire, the role of the upper class married women became a civic duty.
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Excelente informacion sobre la influencia Etrusca en la mujer Romana!

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Ad Legionem, visita virtual a los orígenes de León

Esta es una iniciativa para divulgar y tratar de salvar el yacimiento romano de Ad Legionem, la urbe civil ligada al campamento romano del que surgió la ciudad...


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DE RE COQVINARIA: AD TABERNAS ADIMUS!

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De Re Coquinaria quiere haceros partícipes de un nuevo material didáctico para trabajar e impulsar la expresión oral del latín en el aula. 

 Como bien dice el título AD TABERNAS ADIMUS! se centra en el mundo culinario romano, en concreto nos ofrece un recorrido por un mercado antiguo.  Se trata de un juego con el que el alumnado podrá pasarlo bien, aprender los alimentos más frecuentes en unmacellum y su precio y, principalmente, adquirir más soltura en el uso oral de la lengua latina.


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Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog: Dissecting Rome’s First Triumvirate – Part II

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The rule for election of Consuls of Rome required that a man be 43 years of age unless he was of the patrician class and then he would get two years credit and be eligible at 41. Election during the first year of eligibility was on Caesar’s mind...

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Hortus Hesperidum / Ὁ κῆπος Ἑσπερίδων: Horoscopia

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Bronze Statuette of Cybele on a Cart Drawn by...

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Bronze Statuette of Cybele on a Cart Drawn by Lions ca. 150 - 200 AD Roman The cult of the Anatolian mother goddess Kybele was introduced into Rome during the Second Punic War in the late third...
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Ancient Peoples

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Part of a marble relief depicting a religious festival

AD 70-100

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A flamen (and possibly his wife?)...

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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania

Enhanced electronic reissue (2009), prepared by Gabriel Bodard and Charlotte Roueché, with new translations by Joyce Reynolds, maps by Hafed Walda and full illustration from the Ward-Perkins photographic archive of the British School at Rome.

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Romans Revealed Website

Who were the people of Roman Britain?
Dig for clues with Reading University archaeologists. 
Follow their stories as imagined by Caroline Lawrence.
They may not be who you thought they were…

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Cool site...

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Visual Dictionary for Latin Food Words (Key)

Visual Dictionary for teaching Latin food words, including meats, grains, dairy, fruits, vegetables, etc.

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The Myth of the Founding of Rome

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Read about the myths and legends about the founding of Rome, the possible answers to the questions of who founded it and when Rome was founded.

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In my quasi-latin parlance...FELIX NATALES DIES, O ROMA AETERNA!

 

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Apolline Project

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Official website of the Apolline Project, the multidisciplinary research project on the North Slope of Vesuvius. Archaeology, Volcanology, Palaeobotany beyond Pompeii and Herculaneum.
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Companion to "The Worlds of Roman Women"

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ONLINE COMPANION to THE WORLDS OF ROMAN WOMEN

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Lecture ~ Hazel Dodge:Victory and Spectacle in Roman Circus Mosaics

Lecture ~  Hazel Dodge:Victory and Spectacle in Roman Circus Mosaics | Roma Antiqua | Scoop.it
This is another one from the Sport and Competition in Ancient Rome conference last June at the British Museum:
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El "Mosaico de Los Amores", hallado en Cástulo (Jaén), abierto desde hoy a los internautas.

El "Mosaico de Los Amores", hallado en Cástulo (Jaén), abierto desde hoy a los internautas. | Roma Antiqua | Scoop.it
Fuente: eldiario.es | EFE| 13 de mayo de 2013

El Mosaico de Los Amores, como han llamado los arqueólogos a los restos romanos encontrados en la ciudad íbero…
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CGL - Corpus Grammaticorum Latinorum

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Accès aux sources grammaticales de la Latinité tardive : recherche, parcours textuels et bibliographie

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Interesting resource.

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The Drinking Contest of Dionysos and Heracles, ...

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The Drinking Contest of Dionysos and Heracles, Roman (Antioch) about A.D. 100 Mosaic This pavement, reflecting the realistic space of late Hellenistic painting, was one of five that decorated the...
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Que puedo decir...lindos mosaicos!

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Marble Statue of a Bound Goat 1st - 2nd century...

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Marble Statue of a Bound Goat 1st - 2nd century AD Roman Imperial This sensitively rendered goat with bound feet realistically evokes the widespread practice of animal sacrifice in ancient Greece....
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CARACTERES (21): Caracteres universales. Alfabeto latino

En el Lacio comenzó a usarse un alfabeto griego de tipo occidental, tal vez tomado directamente de los griegos.

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The Vindolanda Excavations 2013 Video Blog - Small Votive Altar

During week 3 of the 2013 Vindolanda Excavations, a small sandstone altar was found. Professor Anthony Birley shows us this new votive altar to Apollo and ex... (RT @VindolandaTrust: We've just uploaded a new video blog!
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Beaker with a Theatrical Scene 50 - 100 AD ...

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Beaker with a Theatrical Scene 50 - 100 AD Roman, most likely from Syria, Palestine, or Egypt Glassworkers employed numerous techniques to decorate their vessels - tooling whilst they were hot,...
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Fscinating!

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Robigalia and the Roman Calendar

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Instituted by Numa Pompilius, the Robigalia, an ancient agricultural festival celebrated in honor of Robigo (or Robigus, the gender was uncertain), the goddess of blight, red rust, or mildew, was celebrated on April 25, when the crops were most vulnerable to disease...

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Some other links of interest on this Roman festival:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robigalia

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Robigalia.html (read Thayer's note)

http://www.science.ulst.ac.uk/rtm/Robigalia.html

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Dissecting Rome’s First Triumvirate – Part I

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The first triumvirate of the Roman Republic was a classic study in power and politics. Three men, each with their own unique personality, battled for control of Rome.
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A taste of Ancient Rome... Minutal ex Praecoquis (Pork and Fruit Ragout)

A taste of Ancient Rome... Minutal ex Praecoquis (Pork and Fruit Ragout) | Roma Antiqua | Scoop.it
Bring on the feast! What type of food did the Ancient Romans eat? What ingredients did they use? What were the Ancient Roman dessert recipes like? When I started to look at some Roman recipes on th...
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Blogging Pompeii: New (and freely accessible!) contributions on Vesuvian sites

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I would like to draw your attention to some new contributions authored by the Apolline Project research group. For those who are not acquainted with this project, it operates since 2004, mostly on the ancient territories of Neapolis and Nola.

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Chest Plate (?) Recovered

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A brief, and as always, tantalizing item from Hurriyet: An armor plate, worn by ancient warriors on their chest, has been seized in the northwestern province of Çanakkale’s Lapseki district. The ma...
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If I'm asked, this looks more like the headpiece from a horse's armor. This assumption I associate from my previous readings on the Roman military and their armor reconstructions...but I can be wrong.

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