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Seneca in Exile

Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65), Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a (very rich) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist. He was born in

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©PH ERCO ILLUMINAZIONE Through January 7, 2022 Colosseum Archaeological Park Rome, Italy www.parcocolosseo.it Renaissance thinkers and artists

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By Ed Whelan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Roman literature has been enormously influential in the history of Western culture. The

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 June 2021 The numbers on the growth of Christianity in the Roman Empire are very uncertain, but there are enough

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After 2,000 years most people still recognise the name Nero, emperor of Rome between AD 54 and 68. He is remembered as a monster and sadist with a

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John William Waterhouse - The Remorse of Nero after the murder of his motherThe British Museum has been proudly boasting about the opening of its new

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Nero was the 5th emperor of Rome and the last of Rome’s first dynasty, the Julio-Claudians, founded by Augustus (the adopted son of Julius Caesar).

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“Farewell, but make no music; commit murder, but write no verses; poison people, but dance not; be an incendiary, but play not on a cithara. This

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Wednesday’s Column: Third’s Words Gary Pollard Last week we looked at an account from Tacitus describing the brutality of Nero against

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Wednesday’s Column: Third’s Words Gary Pollard Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (AD 56-120) wrote two secular historical works describing the reigns of

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Written by Tom G. Hamilton, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom As of this writing, news of the largest hoard of early Roman-era Celtic gold coins

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Hi, I’m Nero from Sardinia, Italy. I started painting in 1991 in my native town, Iglesias, where I still live today. What I learned in all this

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The iconography of the Greek kētos (Latinized as cetus) was established in the Archaic period (ca. 600–480 BCE) and remained amazingly

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A block that originally formed part of a screen wall that connected the four front columns and the sidewalls of the temple of Harendotes ("Horus

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This small bronze Buddha is probably one of the earliest iconic representations of Shakyamuni from Gandhara. He sits in a yogic posture holding his