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Roman tufted goose. The Roman goose is an Italian breed of domestic goose. It is said to be one of the oldest breeds of goose, bred more than 2000 years ago and originally sacred to the goddess Juno. These are a light weight smaller breed of geese with a tuft of feathers on their head. They are either solid white or spotted white and brown. [1]
Roman Imperial bronze goose (Capitoline Museums) In some stories, Marcus Manlius Capitolinus led the way in responding to the alarm, warding off the first Gaul to reach the top of the Capitoline cliff, or alternatively expelling them from the Temple of Jupiter, which they had entered through tunnels.
Juno Moneta, the second name associating the Roman goddess Juno with the goddess Moneta who was worshiped at some locations outside Rome, was regarded as the protectress of the city's funds. Money was coined in her temple for over four centuries, before the mint was moved to a new location near the Colosseum during the reign of the emperor ...
The ruins were found in Spello, a “famous medieval hilltop city,” the university said. They date to Constantine’s rule of the Roman Empire, which was between 324 A.D. and 337 A.D.
The Romans possibly refrained from harming or hunting wolves. "Lupus", the Roman word for wolf became a Roman cognomen. Plautus, a Roman comedian, used imagery of wolves to discuss the cruelty of men. An altar of Zeus was located at Mount Lykaion, a mountain in Arcadia. Lycaon, king of Arcadia, was said to sacrificed humans at this altar ...
For decades, the curious had to gaze down from the bustling sidewalks rimming Largo Argentina (Argentina Square) to admire the temples below. Behind two of the temples is a foundation and part of ...
In December 2022, construction workers at the site on the outskirts of Sarsina, a small town in Italy, unearthed the ruins of an ancient Roman temple — or ‘capitolium’ — dating back to the ...
The city was the capital of the Roman province of Britannia, and its temple (the largest classical-style temple in Britain) was the centre of the Imperial Cult. [6] But tensions arose between the Roman colonists and the native British population in 60/61AD, when the Roman authorities used the death of Iceni king Prasutagus as a pretext for ...