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The Ancient Romans, skilled plumbers, had something that the modern world didn't achieve again till the seventeenth century. Toilets.
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What people the Ancient Romans were! Here we are, more than 2000 years later reading their novels, plays and military tactics.
It was a day of doom on 24 August in the year 79, the very last day of Pompeii.
How satisfying it must have been to live in Ancient Rome in the first few centuries of our era. But only if you were rich!
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Everyone loves a holiday and the Ancient Romans were no exception.
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The Claudius Novels are superb, timeless classics, and if you haven't read them yet, you have missed one of the great works of the 20th century.
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Mars is a Soldier's God, bold and brave. Mars, the Roman warrior god, son of Juno and Jupiter, husband of Bellona, lover of Venus, was the most prominent of the military gods worshipped by the Roman legions. In the great golden city of Rome, Mars was second in importance to the great Jupiter himself! Many believed him to be father of Romulus, the legendary founder of the city, and reasoned that all Romans were descendants of Mars. Mars is still with us today. Martius, the month of March, is named after him. So is the fourth planet from the sun and a bar of chocolate, but we know him mainly as the God of War.
The last years of the Roman Republic were an amazing time in world history,
Stock up on swashbuckling adventures, outstanding military history, murder, romance and the glory and gore that was Rome
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Off to visit Ancient Rome? No one travels without a guidebook Nota bene : Time machine and travel sickness pills not included
My version of Chicken a la Fronto, so named for a Roman author of a lost treatise on agriculture.
Hosting an Ancient Roman Murder is a fabulous, fun-filled way to entertain your friends with an event they will talk about for ages.
Ancient Roman Recipes - not just exotic dishes served by slaves at orgies.
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