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PhDiva: Marius: Imagin[in]g an Ancient Commander-in-Chief
What makes this statue unique is that the Senator holds two imagines or portrait busts, presumably of ancestors - but Marius boasted, when elected consul, of having no imagines in his Atrium ... The statue is more likely to depict a ...
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Fascinating History: Clodius of the People: The Patrician Leader ...
In 59BC, at the age of 32 and in the midst of a most promising political career, he chose to give up his patrician rank and join the plebs via adoption into a plebeian family. This would mean giving up all privileges of the patrician ...
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Aryan(Nordic Alpine) Aliens: Were the ancient Romans Nordic?
Contrast with the Patricians. Portrait busts based on death masks of Patricians, like those shown above, offer the most reliable artistic representations of the Roman physical type. The importance of these visual images of the ancestors ...
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Anniversary of the Battle of Pharsalus: Pharsalus Brings Death to ...
He was viewed as an outsider and radical by the core of power in Rome; a group of patricians whose recent ancestors had held the highest offices in Rome and been celebrated in triumphs as conquering generals. ...
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Incredible Journeys Photo Log: Rome Journal: The Glories of ...
Brutus, perceiving the true meaning of the pythia's prophecy, kissed the land, the mother of mankind, of his ancestors immediately after entering Rome. However, Brutus did not need to feign imbecility for much longer, ...
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Claudius: Biography from Answers.com
Appius Claudius, Roman patrician leader of the decemvirs (decemviri, commission of ten men) appointed in 451 BC to draw up a written code of laws, the Twelve Tables, in response to the agitation of the plebs. ...
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Iqra’i: You shall not sin twice against philosophy.
He does not have Socrates’ easy answer: the death in question is not his own. In ironic echo of his famous ancestor, he must kill to protect the Republic. Duty to one’s father, though, is qualitatively different from duty to one’s ...
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An exercise in critique
On the biological side, pigmentation is not the sole or primary basis for seeing Northern European ancestry in Roman Patricians. The skeletal evidence and portrait busts also point in that direction. movements from the north introduced ...
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Caligula: Biography from Answers.com
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (August 31, 12 – January 24, 41), more commonly known by his nickname Caligula (pronounced /kəˈlɪɡjʊlə/), was the third Roman Emperor who reigned from 16 March 37 until his assassination on 24 ...
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Nero: Biography from Answers.com
Nero Claudius Caesar (37-68) was the last of the Julio-Claudian line of Roman emperors. His erratic personal and public life caused numerous revoltsand uprisings and set the scene for the ascension of the military emperors. ...
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