Most of what we know about Roman Gladiators comes from Ancient literature, advertisements and artwork. Therefore, while we have a good idea of many distinct types of gladiators, we have a better picture of some than of others. Furthermore, there may have been more types that we do not even know about. With that being […]
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The Mission of Livy’s History Titus Livius (59 BC-17 AD), or Livy as he is commonly called, was a Roman historian during the years Augustus was building the Roman Empire. Livy wrote a massive 142 book history of Rome called Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City) which covered all of Roman history […]
The Colosseum is world famous for its architecture and ties to ancient Roman history. Today, it is just a shell of its former self, dissolute and empty, not bright and resounding with the roar of bloodthirsty mobs. But history is still to be gleaned from the ruins. The construction of the Colosseum began in or […]
It is to be assumed that no book can be 100 percent perfect; nearly any history book will have either a handful of translation/interpretation of event errors or, at the very least, present positions that are still in dispute and cannot be immediately verified. Under normal circumstances, this would be overlooked as the education in […]