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The story is a fictional account of what might happen if a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) of 2,200 men were to be somehow transported through time from their base in modern-day Kabul, Afghanistan to the time of the Roman Empire when being ruled by Augustus Caesar, appearing near the Tiber River in 23 BC with their full allotment of equipment - M1 Abrams battle tanks, bulletproof vests, M249 ...
Porcia (c. 73 BC – June 43 BC), [2] [3] occasionally spelled Portia, especially in 18th-century English literature, [4] was a Roman woman who lived in the 1st century BC. She was the daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (Cato the Younger) and his first wife Atilia.
Pius XII: Under the Roman Sky (Italian: Sotto il cielo di Roma, German: Pius XII., also known just as Under the Roman Sky) is a 2010 Italian-German television film directed by Christian Duguay and starring James Cromwell, Alessandra Mastronardi and Marco Foschi.
Swedish version of Casca the Persian UK. Beginning in 1984, Star Book, a paperback division of W. H. Allen & Company, published The Eternal Mercenary, God of Death, and The Warlord. These were the only titles printed. Sweden. Only the first eleven titles of the series were printed by Swedish publisher Popular Pocket, beginning in 1983.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do (Medieval Latin: Sī fuerīs Rōmae, Rōmānō vīvitō mōre; sī fuerīs alibī, vīvitō sīcut ibī), often shortened to when in Rome..., is a proverb attributed to Saint Ambrose.
Kampf um Rom (English language title: The Last Roman) is a West German-Italian historical drama film starring Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina and Honor Blackman. It was produced by Artur Brauner and was the last film to be directed by Robert Siodmak. [1] It was originally released in two parts (Kampf um Rom 1. Teil and Kampf um Rom 2.
The cultural expectation of a free Roman woman was to maintain social respectability and sexual integrity, which conflicted heavily with the master's treatment of enslaved women. Unwed freedwomen could expect to be bound to their patron for their entire lives, entering into the same pseudo-paternal relationship as freedmen, but with similar ...
Catullus 16 or Carmen 16 is a poem by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 BC – c. 54 BC).The poem, written in a hendecasyllabic (11-syllable) meter, was considered to be so sexually explicit following its rediscovery in the following centuries that a full English translation was not published until the 20th century. [1]