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

The Romans made use of fired bricks, and the Roman legions, which operated mobile kilns, introduced bricks to many parts of the empire.

Mail Armour was introduced to the Middle East and Asia through the Romans and was adopted by the Sassanid Persians starting in the 3rd century CE, where it was supplemental to the scale and lamellar armours already used.

Under the auspices of Humbert of Romans, Albert molded the curriculum of studies for all Dominican students, introduced Aristotle to the classroom and probed the work of Neoplatonists, such as Plotinus.

The Romans, for example, introduced the wooden horse.

Although mining had long been practised in Britain ( see Grimes Graves ), the Romans introduced new technical knowledge and large-scale industrial production to revolutionise the industry.

The Greeks and Romans introduced the origins of health and life insurance c. 600 BCE when they created guilds called " benevolent societies " which cared for the families of deceased members, as well as paying funeral expenses of members.

The Greeks and Romans introduced burial insurance circa 600 AD when they organized guilds called " benevolent societies " which cared for the surviving families and paid funeral expenses of members upon death.

** Theatre of the United Kingdom – introduced by the Romans and part of the British culture since at least 1585.

Most of the Iberian Peninsula was invaded by the Romans, who introduced the olive and irrigation methods.

Although it is often thought of as a British native wild flower, or to have been brought to the British Isles by the Romans, it was probably introduced around the early sixteenth century and is currently not a protected species in the UK.

The origins of the game are said to be ancient, going back to the Egyptians, ancient Greeks, and Ancient Romans, who are said to have introduced it to Provence first.

Gallic tribes, which were introduced to boules by the Romans, used wooden boules.

Secondly, that he was a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes ; disturbed the Jews in the exercise of their religion, guaranteed by the state ; introduced new gods, a thing prohibited by the Romans.

The code, however, appears to have been known amongst the Visigoths by the title of “ Lex Romana ”, or “ Lex Theodosii ”, and it was not until the 16th century that the title of “ Breviarium ” was introduced to distinguish it from a recast of the code, which was introduced into northern Italy in the 9th century for the use of the Romans in Lombardy.

They were purportedly introduced in Spain by the Romans.

It was introduced to England, for both production and consumption, by the Romans.

They were also extremely popular with Persians and the Romans who introduced them into Britain long before the 1st century AD.

He is chiefly important as having introduced Alexandrian learning to the Romans.

The Romans introduced many herbs and spices into western cuisine, Renfrew states that basil, bay, dill, fennel, mint, parsley, rue and thyme were all common in Roman cooking.

The Romans, who were less interested in theoretical issues, expressed 1, 000, 000 as decies centena milia, that is, ' ten hundred thousand '; it was only in the 13th century that the ( originally French ) word ' million ' was introduced.

Drama was introduced to England from Europe by the Romans, and auditoriums were constructed across the country for this purpose.

* resourcesforhistory ( 2006 ): Some foods introduced by the Romans to Britain.

However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

Zonaras vividly narrates how " he and his son and a large number of Romans fell into the marshland ; all of them perished there, none of their bodies to be found, as they were covered by the mud.

Although the Romans defeated the Carthaginian fleet and were successful in rescuing its army in Africa, a storm destroyed nearly the entire Roman fleet on the trip home ; the number of casualties in the disaster may have exceeded 90, 000 men.

There are a number of theories of its origin, including as an Arab soup of bread, olive oil, water and garlic that arrived in Spain and Portugal with the Moors, or via the Romans with the addition of vinegar.

During their occupation of Britain the Romans founded a number of important settlements, many of which still survive.

He captures a large number of Romans.

Mercury is known to the Romans as Mercurius and occasionally in earlier writings as Merqurius, Mirqurios or Mircurios, had a number of epithets representing different aspects or roles, or representing syncretisms with non-Roman deities.

Bases allowed the Romans to keep a large number of soldiers in the field waiting for the opportunity to strike.

Despite the specific set of meanings associated with the religion of the ancient Rome, the word has now become quite widely used to describe a house of worship for any number of religions and is even used for time periods prior to the Romans.

Such wines were described by the Romans, and northern Italy is home to a number of ' passito ' wines, where the grapes are dried on straw, on racks, or hung from the rafters.

There are a number of Messianic commentaries on various books of the Bible, both Tanakh and New Testament texts, such as Matthew, Acts, Romans, Galatians, and Hebrews.

Protrepticus ( Exhortation to the Greeks ) ( c. 190 ) IV-" Another new deity was added to the number with great religious pomp in Egypt, and was near being so in Greece by the king of the Romans, who deified Antinous 130CE, whom he loved as Zeus loved Ganymede, and whose beauty was of a very rare order: for lust is not easily restrained, destitute as it is of fear ; and men now observe the sacred nights of Antinous, the shameful character of which the lover who spent them with him knew well.

* A number of ancient Romans of the gens Domitia ; see under the cognomen Ahenobarbus

At first, the Romans won a number of small victories, largely due to Perseus ' refusal to consolidate his armies.

The Romans were dedicated to military matters, leaving to posterity many treatises and writings as well as a large number of lavishly carved triumphal arches and victory columns.

Later the Kerretes came under Roman rule, and the Romans renamed the oppidum Julia Libyca, with a significant number of Roman citizens settling there.

The resulting peace treaty between Philip V and the Romans confined Philip to Macedonia and required him to pay 1000 talents indemnity, surrender most of its fleet and provide a number of hostages, including his younger son Demetrius.

Although Rome itself is not a planned settlement, the Romans built a large number of towns throughout their empire, often as colonies for the settlement of citizens or veterans.

Aëtius turned then to the powerful local magnate Avitus for help, who was not only able to convince Theodoric to join with the Romans, but also a number of other wavering " barbarians " resident in Gaul.

It was not unusual for the Romans to offer cult to the gods of other nations in the hope of redirecting their favor ( see evocatio ), and the Second Punic War in particular created pressures on Roman society that led to a number of religious innovations and reforms.

When Greece was annexed by the Roman Empire, the cultural exchange that started between the two civilization triggered as a result a large number of Romans visiting the famous centers of Greek philosophy and science, such as Athens, Corinth and Thebes, partly because Greece had become a province of the Roman Empire and Greeks were granted Roman citizenship.

There were a number of Romans named Appius Claudius:

Although Rome itself is not a planned settlement, the Romans built a large number of towns throughout their empire, often as colonies for the settlement of citizens or veterans.

The Romans are known for the great number of deities they honored, a capacity that earned the mockery of early Christian polemicists.