Conquest of Veii in 396 BCE
According to ancient sources, the conquest of Veii by Rome in 396 BCE was an important event for the Roman community. Veii was located only 16 km north of the “Eternal City” and posed a real threat in the region.
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Curiosities of ancient Rome
The world of the ancient Romans was rich in extraordinary, and sometimes even surprising, facts. We draw our knowledge of Roman daily life, customs, and mentality primarily from works left by ancient writers and historians. It is thanks to them that we discover information that is astonishing today – sometimes even hard to believe. Below are some interesting facts that reveal a lesser-known and less obvious side of the Roman world.
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Roman cavalry masks
Roman cavalry from the late Empire period and legion ensigns (signifers) sometimes wore special metal masks to represent strength and to deter enemies.
Roman herma showing young woman named Statia Quinta
Roman herma showing a young woman named Statia Quinta. The inscription on the statue gives her name along with the letters L.L., which researchers translate as Lucia Liberta, meaning “freedwoman of Lucius”. The object was found on the northern shore of Lake Nemi (central Italy) in Diana’s sanctuary in 1887.
Impressive fortifications of Dacians
Dacians were a people living in what is now Romania and part of Hungary. To this day, we can admire the remains of buildings and fortresses they built in the Orăștie mountains, which are part of the Carpathians. They prove how well-developed the Dacians were.
How did ancient Romans lose weight?
Many people ask themselves how to lose weight in an easy and fun way. The answer to this question is not easy. As it turns out, people in ancient times had similar problems. Let us ask ourselves: how did the ancient Romans lose weight?
Why couldn’t ancient Roman women drink wine?
In Roman times, there was a law forbidding women from consuming wine on pain of flogging or the death penalty. Cato the Elder, called the Censor, spoke bluntly: If you see your wife drinking wine, kill her! Why are the Romans so strict how did they approach the consumption of wine by women?
Disruptions in Roman market
The turmoil in the financial markets and in the real economy made state intervention necessary. Carrying out active measures to limit the effects of the crisis, however, is nothing new and was used hundreds of years ago, as evidenced by the history of one of the first banking crises in history, which took place in the Roman Empire.
Mons Palatinus in legends of Livy
A hill on which, according to tradition Romulus founded in 753 BCE Rome was a Palatine (Mons Palatinus). Livius derives its name from the Arcadian city of Pallanteum, from which Euander came – the first ruler of this area, who also established the Greek cult of Heracles in Italy. Why exactly the Palatine?
First proposal of life imprisonment
In 63 BCE Cicero, who was the consul, gave his famous speech at a Senate meeting against Lucius Sergius Catilina, a member of an impoverished old patrician family, whom he accused of a planned coup.
