The Piscina Mirabilis, built under Augustus (27 BC - 14 AD).
It's the biggest known cistern built by ancient Romans (15 metres high, 70 metres long and 25 metres wide), entirely dug out of the tuff hill.
Bacoli, Italy.
© Roberto Conte (2021)
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Rome's Response to the Spread of Christianity
During the 1st century CE, a sect of Jews in Jerusalem claimed that their teacher, Jesus of Nazareth, was the 'messiah' of Israel. 'Messiah' meant 'anointed one', or someone chosen by the God of Israel to lead when God would intervene in human history to bring justice to the world. Jesus was crucified by a Roman magistrate, Pontius Pilate, c. 30 CE for proclaiming a kingdom that was not Rome's. Shortly after his death, his followers claimed that he was resurrected from the dead and was now in heaven at the right hand of God. Those who followed the teachings of Jesus ('Christ', the Greek for 'messiah') would also earn resurrection in the afterlife.
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Ancient Landscapes 02
By Jeff Stanford, 2023
Buy prints at:
https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/
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This is a bit of an inside joke.
There's an experiment where women ask their husbands or boyfriends how many times they thought of the Roman Empire today.
They are shocked that most of them think about it quite often, and favourably.
Of course, this prompted a cartoon from me. But I doubt he thought about it as favourably.
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Ready for a short Latin lesson? 🐶🐱 It only takes a... meow-ment. 🤭
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The Colosseum, Rome, Italy
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"Men speak opinions, not facts. Our eyes see perspective, not truth."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 AD and a Stoic philosopher.
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Childhood in Ancient Rome
Freeborn Roman children, ingenuiae, born of Roman citizen parents lived a life that was dictated by the level of society into which they were born; a day in the life of a child from the lower level of society and one from the more affluent, were worlds apart.
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