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Toga candida: "Bright toga"; a toga rubbed with chalk to a dazzling white, worn by candidates (from Latin candida, "pure white") for public office. [11] Thus Persius speaks of a cretata ambitio, "chalked ambition". Toga candida is the etymological source of the word candidate. Toga pulla: a "dark toga" was supposed to be worn by mourners at ...
The toga was considered Rome's "national costume," privileged to Roman citizens but for day-to-day activities most Romans preferred more casual, practical and comfortable clothing; the tunic, in various forms, was the basic garment for all classes, both sexes and most occupations. It was usually made of linen, and was augmented as necessary ...
A fabula togata is a Latin comedy in a Roman setting, in existence since at least the second century BC. Lucius Afranius and Titus Quinctius Atta are known to have written fabulae togatae . It is also treated as an expression that functioned as the overall description of all Roman types of drama in accordance with a distinction between Roman ...
It has long been believed that Roman women originally did not wear stolae and that they instead wore togas like the men. However, this goes back to a scholarly lore invented in Late Antiquity. [9] [10] For the most part, the toga was worn exclusively by men, and Roman wives (matronae) traditionally wore the stola.
Within the first 10 days of the commercial's release for "Will Levis No. 8," it was viewed 37,000 times on YouTube, 88,000 times on TikTok, 330,000 times on Instagram and 2.4 million times on X ...
Travis Kelce portrays a Roman gladiator in a new commercial for Pepsi. “Sweeping epics” are words usually used to describe movies, but there is a new commercial for the start of the 2024 NFL ...
The music of ancient Rome was a part of Roman culture from the earliest of times. Songs ( carmen ) were an integral part of almost every social occasion. [ 1 ] The Secular Ode of Horace , for instance, was commissioned by Augustus and performed by a mixed children's choir at the Secular Games in 17 BC.
Pulsallama's song "The Devil Lives in my Husband's Body" was called a "post-new wave social satire" [17] and an "art-damaged ode to suburban disturbance." [18] The narrative, describing a husband with Tourette's syndrome who howls and barks nightly in his basement, [19] satirized a story from True Romance magazine. [3]