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Plautus – Roman plays – ancient Rome

By |2017-09-04T00:45:19-07:00September 4th, 2017|Literature, Romans|

Actors in ancient Rome During the Roman Republic, when the Romans first began to go to plays, there weren't any plays written in Latin, only plays in Greek. Plautus (PLAW-tuss or PLOW-tuss) was one of the first people who wrote plays in Latin for these Roman audiences, in the late 200s BC (about the time of the Second Punic [...]

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Echo and Narcissus – Ovid’s Metamorphoses – ancient Rome

By |2019-05-23T18:41:04-07:00September 3rd, 2017|Literature, Romans|

Narcissus and his pond (Third Style Roman painting from Pompeii, about 79 AD) - Echo and Narcissus Where is Echo's story from? Echo and Narcissus is a story we know mainly because Ovid wrote it down in his poem, the Metamorphoses. It's a traditional Greek story - there are illustrations from Greek vase painting about 500 BC. [...]

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Latin Literature – the writers of ancient Rome

By |2019-11-03T18:03:15-08:00September 3rd, 2017|Literature, Romans|

Latin literature: A Roman papyrus scroll from a library of Epicurean philosophy (Herculaneum, Italy) Where did Latin come from? The Roman Empire lasted for more than a thousand years, so there was plenty of time to produce a lot of writing. Latin, an Indo-European language, was written in an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet, with some letters [...]

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Tiberius – Roman emperor – ancient Rome

By |2018-04-25T09:12:36-07:00September 3rd, 2017|History, Romans|

Tiberius (thanks to Justin Paola) Tiberius was Augustus' step-son. He was the son of Augustus' wife Livia, from Livia's first marriage. He was born in 42 BC. Tiberius' father was also called Tiberius. The dad's name was Tiberius Nero, and he was from the Claudian family - a very rich and powerful family. But [...]

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Roman empire – ancient Rome

By |2018-04-25T09:54:55-07:00September 3rd, 2017|History, Romans|

The Roman emperor Augustus As the Romans were conquering the whole Mediterranean, the rich men who were running the government got richer and richer - very very rich. They began fighting each other to rule the new empire. By 30 BC one man - Augustus - was ruling the Roman Empire. After Augustus died, his relatives inherited his throne. [...]

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The Roman Republic – Ancient Rome

By |2019-04-08T06:07:27-07:00September 3rd, 2017|History, Romans|

Doric temple at Paestum, Italy Conquering southern Italy Once they had established their Republic,  the Romans began to conquer southern Italy. They used another good idea to help them. The Early Republic Greek colonies in Italy All our Ancient Rome articles Offering to help cities Like Alexander the Great about the same time, Romans told everybody that if [...]

Julio-Claudians – emperors of ancient Rome

By |2019-10-20T14:32:15-07:00September 3rd, 2017|History|

The Roman emperor Augustus, first of the Julio-Claudians How did Augustus get power? Everybody was tired of all this fighting and killing. And everyone was afraid of Octavian. So when Octavian just kept ruling almost as if he were king, nobody tried to stop him. He made people call him Augustus (which means The [...]

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History of Rome – ancient Rome

By |2018-04-25T09:54:54-07:00September 3rd, 2017|History, Romans|

Villanovan cremation urn with helmet on top (ca. 900 BC) Italy's history in antiquity mostly followed the changes that were happening in West Asia a little earlier. The first modern people arrived in Italy from West Asia about 10,000 BC. About 5000 BC a second group of West Asian travellers brought farming and farm animals to Italy - Central Asian cows, West Asian sheep, [...]

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Early Roman republic – ancient Rome

By |2018-04-25T09:56:08-07:00September 3rd, 2017|History, Romans|

Bust of a man (Rome, ca. 300 BC) Around 500 BC, just as democracy was getting started in Athens, the Roman aristocrats (the rich people) decided they didn't want to be ruled by Etruscan kings anymore. The kings were doing okay for the poor people, but the rich people wanted more power for themselves. But the rich people couldn't [...]

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Claudius – Roman emperor – Ancient Rome

By |2019-04-08T19:34:16-07:00September 3rd, 2017|History, Romans|

The Roman emperor Claudius (died 54 AD) Claudius's family Claudius was born in 10 BC in the city of Lugdunum in Gaul (modern Lyons, France). His mother was Antonia Minor, Mark Anthony's youngest daughter with Octavia, and his father was Drusus, Tiberius' younger brother. Who was Mark Anthony? Who was Tiberius? Julio-Claudian emperors All our Ancient Rome [...]

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