Built upon seven hills, Istanbul, like Rome, is one of the most ancient cities in the world, filled with splendor and contrast.

You are now facing the Pantheon, the largest and best-preserved building still standing from the days of ancient Rome.

All the sins of ancient Rome are said to be collected into this three-hour film.

Harris dates studies of both to Classical Greece and Classical Rome, specifically, to Herodotus, often called the " father of history " and the Roman historian, Tacitus, who wrote many of our only surviving contemporary accounts of several ancient Celtic and Germanic peoples.

The normal method of calculation in ancient Rome, as in Greece, was by moving counters on a smooth table.

In many parts of the world, acropoleis became the nuclei of large cities of classical antiquity, such as ancient Rome, which in more recent times grew up on the surrounding lower ground, such as modern Rome.

Ahenobarbus was the name of a plebeian family of the Domitia gens in the late Republic and early Principate of ancient Rome.

He built the last aqueduct of ancient Rome, the 22 km long Aqua Alexandrina to supply his enlargement of the Thermae of Nero which have been renamed after the emperor ( Thermae Alexandrinae ).

After a short residence in Venice, he went to Rome in 1625 with an introduction from the Duke of Mantua to the late pope's nephew, Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, who employed him for a time in the restoration of ancient statues.

During the Julio-Claudian period, the Temple of Rome and Augustus, a small, round edifice, about 23 meters from the Parthenon, was to be the last significant ancient construction on the summit of the rock.

Ancient art was largely, but not entirely, based on the nine great ancient civilizations: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, China, Rome, India, the Celtic peoples, and Maya.

* A. D. ( miniseries ), a 1985 television miniseries set in ancient Rome

Archeological site of Tossal de Manises, ancient Iberians | Iberian – Carthaginian – Ancient Rome | Roman city of " Akra-Leuke " or " Lucentum "

In ancient Rome, some neighbors live in three adjacent houses.

Category: Plays set in ancient Rome

Although traditionally focused on ancient Greece and Rome, the study now encompasses the entire ancient Mediterranean world, thus expanding their studies to Northern Africa and parts of the Middle East.

Early in this period, which finally culminated in the creation of the Gupta Empire, relations with ancient Greece and Rome were not infrequent.

Scale model of ancient Rome, 3rd century AD

The growth of the population of ancient civilizations, the formation of ancient empires concentrating political power, and the growth in commerce and manufacturing led to ever greater capital cities and centres of commerce and industry, with Alexandria, Antioch and Seleucia of the Hellenistic civilization, Pataliputra ( now Patna ) in India, Chang ' an ( now Xi ' an ) in China, Carthage, ancient Rome, its eastern successor Constantinople ( later Istanbul ).

Keith Hopkins estimates that ancient Rome had a population of about a million people by the end of the 1st century BC, after growing continually during the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st centuries BC, making it the largest city in the world at the time.

While David Kessler and Peter Temin consider ancient Rome to be the largest city before 19th century London and the first to have exceeded a population of over 1 million, George Modelski considers medieval Baghdad, with an estimated population of 1. 2 million at its peak, to be the largest city before 19th century London and the first with a population of over one million.

In a consideration of all the roles Hermes was understood to have fulfilled in ancient Greece Christopher Booker gives the genius of the god to be a guide or observer of transition.

In ancient Roman religion, the genius was the individual instance of a general divine nature that is present in every individual person, place, or thing.

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In this respect, a person ’ s Chi is analogous to the concept of a guardian angel in Western Christianity, the daimon in ancient Greek religion, and the genius in ancient Roman religion.

Consulting the ancient 800-year-old Martian sage Chochem ( a Yiddish word meaning " genius "), they are advised that the children of Mars are growing distracted due to the society's overly rigid structure ; from infancy, all their education is fed into their brains through machines and they are not allowed individuality or freedom of thought.

A unique feature of this period is the emotional ( and sometimes active ) attachment of poets with national freedom struggle, their effort to understand and imbibe the vast spirit of a magnificent ancient culture and their towering genius which grossly overshadowed all the literary ' talked abouts ' of next seven decades.

Using the information he had gleaned from Gix and the technology being developed by his genius resident staff, Urza began the creation of a time machine that allowed him to gaze into the past and see the ancient war that led to Phyrexian banishment.

Grimlock's greatest victory came when he and a large number of other Transformers with animal transformations were summoned to a world at the centre of the galaxy by the ex-assistant of the ancient genius, Primacron, creator of Unicron.

Grillparzer's conceptions are not so clearly defined as Goethe's, nor is his diction so varied and harmonious ; but the play has the stamp of genius, and ranks as one of the best of those works in which an attempt has been made to combine the passion and sentiment of modern life with the simplicity and grace of ancient masterpieces.

The " ancient invasion " of Quatermass and the Pit cast a huge shadow ... its brilliant blending of superstition, witchcraft and ghosts into the story of a five-million-year-old Martian invasion is copper-bottomed genius.

Formerly the assistant to the Primacron, the ancient genius who created the giant mechanoid Unicron, the robotic being known as the Oracle was badly damaged when Unicron rebelled against his creator.

In ancient Greek religion, Agathos Daimon or Agathodaemon (, " noble spirit ") was a daemon or presiding spirit of the vineyards and grainfields and a personal companion spirit, similar to the Roman genius, ensuring good luck, health, and wisdom.

Sir Robert's genius was in finding, purchasing and preserving these ancient documents.

But his main thrust over the years was to write about mystical experience and the evolution of consciousness from a scientific point of view-that there is a biological mechanism in the human body, known from ancient times in India as Kundalini, which is responsible for creativity, genius, psychic ability, religious and mystical experience, as well as some types of aberrant mental illness.

" The party had the privilege of idling through this ancient quarter of New Orleans with the South's finest literary genius, the author of " the Grandissimes.

Set in the Old West of the late 1880s, the novels follow the adventures of gunslinger Gabriel Tyler and Native American shaman Jonathan Fivehawk as they fight the plans of Robur Drache, an insane genius in the thrall of an ancient evil known as The Faceless.

In 2006, the episode " Call of the Primitives ", Ravage was among the " Primitive " Transformers amassed by the ex-assistant of the ancient genius, Primacron in order to combat his energy-draining creation Tornedron.

In ancient Roman religion, an aedicula ( plural aediculae ) is a small shrine.

The Boii ( Latin plural, singular Boius ; Greek ) were one of the most prominent ancient Celtic tribes of the later Iron Age, attested at various times in Cisalpine Gaul ( northern Italy ), Pannonia ( Hungary and its western neighbours ), in and around Bohemia, and Transalpine Gaul.

During ancient Roman times the balteus ( plural baltei ) was a type of baldric commonly used to suspend a sword.

Concubinage was an institution practiced in ancient Rome that allowed a man to enter into an informal but recognized relationship with a woman ( concubina, plural concubinae ) not his wife, most often a woman whose lower social status was an obstacle to marriage.

Pronouns show distinctions in person ( 1st, 2nd, and 3rd ), number ( singular, dual, and plural in the ancient language ; singular and plural alone in later stages ), and gender ( masculine, feminine, and neuter ), and decline for case ( from six cases in the earliest forms attested to four in the modern language ).

The corresponding noun is amor ( the significance of this term for the Romans is well illustrated in the fact, that the name of the City, Rome — in Latin: Roma — can be viewed as an anagram for amor, which was used as the secret name of the City in wide circles in ancient times ), which is also used in the plural form to indicate love affairs or sexual adventures.

There is similar evidence that Luke resided in Troas, the province which included the ruins of ancient Troy, in that he writes in Acts in the third person about Paul and his travels until they get to Troas, where he switches to the first person plural.

The nuraghe ( plural Italian nuraghi, Sardinian nuraghes ) is the main type of ancient megalithic edifice found in Sardinia, developed during the Nuragic Age between 1900-730 BC.

The plural form of a noun is usually created by adding the suffix -( e ) s. The pronouns have irregular plurals, as in " I " versus " we ", because they are ancient and frequently used words.

The ballista ( Latin, from Greek βαλλίστρα-ballistra and that from-βάλλω ballō, " throw "), plural ballistas, was an ancient missile weapon which launched a large projectile at a distant target.

A slightly different form of the tree, equally common under the name of seyal, is the ancient shittah, or, as more usually expressed in the plural form, the shittim, of which the Tabernacle was made.

In ancient Greek, the word ketos (, plural cetea )-Latinized as cetus-denotes a large fish, a whale, a shark, or a sea monster.

The term Avernus ( plural Averni ) was also used by ancient naturalists for certain lakes, grottos, and other places which infect the air with poisonous steams or vapors.

In ancient Roman religion, Fontus or Fons ( plural Fontes, " Font " or " Source ") was a god of wells and springs.

The pilum ( plural pila ) was a javelin commonly used by the Roman army in ancient times.

: nordboerne, No.: nordboerne or nordbuane in the definite plural ) is used for both ancient and modern people living in the Nordic countries and speaking one of the North Germanic languages.

: Origin: < Middle French, French paradoxe ( 1495 as noun ; 1372 – 4 in plural paradoxesas the title of a work by Cicero ; paradoxon ( noun ) philosophical paradox in post-classical Latin also a figure of speech < ancient Greek παράδοξον, especially in plural παράδοξαStoical paradoxes, use as noun of neuter singular of παράδοξος ( adjective ) contrary to received opinion or expectation < παρα-para-prefix1 + δόξαopinion ( see doxology n .), after ancient Greek παρὰ δόξανcontrary to expectation.

" In ancient texts, Zhongguo, which can be either singular or plural, referred to the group of states in the central plain or to a state or city.

Stoa (; plural, stoas, stoai, or stoae ) in ancient Greek architecture ; covered walkways or porticos, commonly for public usage.

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