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2023 marked another year of meme-ories. Like in past years, many online turned to memes as a form of escapism. “Memes seemed to be a primary way people dealt with and processed and reacted to ...
A viral trend about the Roman Empire puts on display our cultural obsession with myths about classical history, writes historian David M. Perry; at the same time, it underscores a social ...
Historically speaking, the empire can be divided in two parts: the Western Roman Empire, which lasted until 476 A.D. (after the fall of the last emperor, Romulus Augustulus) and the Eastern Roman ...
The Alexamenos graffito. The Alexamenos graffito (also known as the graffito blasfemo, or blasphemous graffito) [1]: 393 is a piece of Roman graffito scratched in plaster on the wall of a room near the Palatine Hill in Rome, Italy, which has now been removed and is in the Palatine Museum. [2] Often called the earliest depiction of Jesus, the ...
The Roman salute, also known as the Fascist salute, is a gesture in which the right arm is fully extended, facing forward, with palm down and fingers touching. In some versions, the arm is raised upward at an angle; in others, it is held out parallel to the ground. In contemporary times, the former is commonly considered a symbol of fascism ...
The Roman–Persian Wars, also known as the Roman–Iranian Wars, were a series of conflicts between states of the Greco-Roman world and two successive Iranian empires: the Parthian and the Sasanian. Battles between the Parthian Empire and the Roman Republic began in 54 BC; [1] wars began under the late Republic, and continued through the Roman ...
500,000–600,000 killed [4][5] The Bar Kokhba revolt (Hebrew: מֶרֶד בַּר כּוֹכְבָא Mereḏ Bar Kōḵḇāʾ) was a large-scale armed rebellion initiated by the Jews of Judea, led by Simon bar Kokhba, against the Roman Empire in 132 CE. [6] Lasting until 135 or early 136, it was the third and final escalation of the Jewish ...
The preserved ruins of Pompeii serve as a window into the gastronomic delights of the Roman Empire. In 2019, an ancient fast-food stall , also known as a thermopolium, was discovered there.