The Romans believed chives could relieve the pain from sunburn or a sore throat.

For example, he believed ( as most Romans ) that his ancestor Appius Claudius Caecus had used the censorship to introduce the letter " R " and so used his own term to introduce his new letters.

The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that books on magic were invented by the Persians, with the 1st century CE writer Pliny the Elder stating that magic had been first discovered by the ancient philosopher Zoroaster around the year 6347 BC, but that it was only written down in the 5th century BC by the magician Osthanes — his claims are not however supported by modern historians.

The giraffe was also known to the Greeks and Romans, who believed that it was an unnatural hybrid of a camel and a leopard and called it camelopardalis.

The druids, the Celtic priestly caste who were believed to originate in Britain, were outlawed by Claudius, and in 61 they vainly defended their sacred groves from destruction by the Romans on the island of Mona ( Anglesey ).

This strategy was unpopular with many Romans, who believed it was a form of cowardice.

It is generally believed that the Romans adopted the Cumae alphabet, a variant of the Greek alphabet, in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in Southern Italy.

Carbon dating of textiles found with the remains in the cave indicate they are contemporaneous with the period of the Revolt and it is believed that as they were buried with pig bones ( a Roman practice ); this indicates that the remains may belong to Romans who garrisoned Masada after its recapture.

In 64, most of Rome was destroyed in the Great Fire of Rome, which many Romans believed Nero himself had started in order to clear land for his planned palatial complex, the Domus Aurea.

I believed its own claim about itself, that it was determined to translate exactly what was there, and inject no extra paraphrasing or interpretative glosses .... Disillusionment set in over the next two years, as I lectured verse by verse through several of Paul's letters, not least Galatians and Romans.

( See Leviticus 11 and Romans 14: 2 ) For many centuries, Western alchemists believed in vitalism.

In their introduction to the Miles Gloriosus, Hammond, Mack and Moskalew say that “ the Romans were acquainted with the Greek stone theater, but, because they believed drama to be a demoralizing influence, they had a strong aversion to the erection of permanent theaters .” This worry rings true when considering the subject matter of Plautus ’ plays.

The Romans and Greeks believed the source of cinnamon to have been the Somali peninsula but in reality, the highly valued product was brought to Somalia by way of Indian ships.

It is believed to have fallen due to a peace party opening a small door in the wall to negotiate a peace, but the Romans charged through the door and took the city, killing Archimedes in the process.

The Romans believed that the species of animals, including man, were spontaneously generated from the materials of the Earth, because of which the Latin word mater, " mother ," descends to English-speakers as matter and material.

In antiquity, the Ancient Greeks and Romans believed in the power of exhaustion in curing people of lycanthropy.

It is believed that the Romans brought Gouais Blanc from Croatia, and it was widely cultivated by peasants in Eastern France.

Romans believed the ring to be a symbol for ownership rather than love.

The Romans believed that Jupiter granted them supremacy because they had honored him more than any other people had.

Ancient Romans as well as other Indoeuropean people believed Earth is a sphere.

Oceanus (; ( Ōkeanós ); ) was a pseudo-geographical feature in classical antiquity, believed by the ancient Greeks and Romans to be the divine personification of the World Ocean, an enormous river encircling the world.

Created sometime between 130 and 100 BC, it is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty ( Venus to the Romans ).

While some cultures considered the knowledge of the dead to be unlimited, ancient Greeks and Romans believed that individual shades knew only certain things.

* The Insubres, Gauls of the Po Valley, believed by the Romans to have been incited to revolt by Carthage, are finally defeated.

European mistletoe, Viscum album, figured prominently in Greek mythology, and is believed to be The Golden Bough of Aeneas, ancestor of the Romans.

* Livius Andronicus ( c. 284 BC – 204 BC ), introduced drama to the Romans and produced the first formal play in Latin in c. 240 BC

By this time Naples seems to have become tired of his music ; the Romans, however, appreciated it better, and it was at the Teatro Capranica in Rome that he produced some of his finest operas ( Telemaco, 1718 ; Marco Attilio Regolò, 1719 ; La Griselda, 1721 ), as well as some noble specimens of church music, including a mass for chorus and orchestra, composed in honor of Saint Cecilia for Cardinal Acquaviva in 1721.

It has been theorized by recent scholars that the Qumran library was not entirely produced at Qumran, but may have included part of the library of the Jerusalem Temple, that may have been hidden in the caves for safekeeping at the time the Temple was destroyed by Romans in 70 AD.

It was not only the Greeks and Romans that produced graffiti: the Mayan site of Tikal in Guatemala also contains ancient examples.

The Romans produced gladiatorial combat as a public spectacle.

Founded by the Romans in 268 BC, throughout their period of rule Rimini was a key communications link between the north and south of the peninsula, and on its soil Roman emperors erected monuments like the Arch of Augustus and the Tiberius Bridge, while during the Renaissance, the city benefited from the court of the House of Malatesta, which hosted artists like Leonardo and produced works such as the Malatesta Temple.

# Instituting a mint that produced a uniform set of Islamic currency which resulted in war with Byzantine Empire and defeat of the Romans at the Battle of Sebastopolis ;

" Sarcophagi were undoubtedly used by the Egyptians prior to the building of the Great Pyramid, but it was not until after the days of Trajan that the Greeks and Romans produced the monumental and richly sculptured examples which are found in the museums of Europe today.

His study of Pauline theology, partly on the lines of John Locke, produced ( 1745 ) a ‘ Key ’ to the apostolic writings with an application of this ‘ Key ’ to the interpretation of the Epistle to the Romans.

Like Rengstorf he proposed that the Scrolls had been produced in Jerusalem, but unlike Rengstorf, Golb argues that the scrolls came from different libraries throughout Jerusalem and were hidden in the caves by Jews fleeing the Romans during a political uprising.

The Romans learned glass-making from the Phoenicians and produced many extant examples of fine glass bottles, mostly relatively small.

With the coinage reform of Augustus in or about 23 BC, the sestertius and dupondius were produced in a golden colored copper-alloy called orichalcum by the Romans and numismatists, and by us brass, while lower denominations were produced out of reddish copper.

Roman armies were not invincible, despite their formidable reputation and host of victories: over the centuries the Romans " produced their share of incompetents " who led Roman armies into catastrophic defeats.

In his 1807 Almanach des Gourmands, gastronomist Grimod de La Reynière presents his rôti sans pareil (" roast without equal ")— a bustard stuffed with a turkey, a goose, a pheasant, a chicken, a duck, a guinea fowl, a teal, a woodcock, a partridge, a plover, a lapwing, a quail, a thrush, a lark, an ortolan bunting and a garden warbler — although he states that, since similar roasts were produced by ancient Romans, the rôti sans pareil was not entirely novel.

While the Eastern cities of Alexandria and Antioch produced theological works, the bishops of Rome focused on what Romans admittedly did best — administration.

Rome produced its own aes signatum around 300 BC which are distinguished by the inscription " ROMANOM " ( of the Romans ) and production continued to about the end of the first Punic war in 240 BC, overlapping some of the developments described below.

In 1903, William Nichols, then Vice President of the British Archaeological Association, produced a theory that the mines were made by the Druids, Romans and Saxons.

Romans of literary or rhetorical inclination looked to Greek models, and Greek literature of all types continued to be read and produced both by native speakers of Greek and later by Roman authors as well.

Also the Romans had settlements in the area, and produced garum.

Although the Romans knew of wild silk harvested on Cos, they did not at first make the connection with silk which was also produced in the Pamir Sarikol kingdom.

Etruscans and Greek settlers produced wine in Italy before the Romans started their own vineyards in the 2nd century BC.