Italy

There are 181 items in Italy:

Eryx

Eryx: mountain on western Sicily, modern Erice. Mount Eryx, from the south The isolated Mount Eryx is about 750 meters high and dominates…

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Etna

Etna: volcano in Sicily. The Etna, seen from an airplane Mount Etna, here seen from the southwest, is situated in the northeast…

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Eunus

Eunus: Syrian slave, leader of a revolt on Sicily in 135-132 BCE. Sicily in Antiquity In the mid-third century, the Romans conquered…

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Eutropius, Short History 1

Eutropius (c.320-c.390?): Roman historian, author of a very popular Short History of the Roman Empire.The translation of Eutropius' Short History offered here is by John Selby Watson and was published in 1886. The text was found at Tertullian.org. The notes…

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Eutropius, Short History 3

Eutropius (c.320-c.390?): Roman historian, author of a very popular Short History of the Roman Empire.The translation of Eutropius' Short History offered here is by John Selby Watson and was published in 1886. The text was found at Tertullian.org. The notes…

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Fidenae

Fidenae: town near Rome, modern Castel Giubileo. Reconstruction of an Iron Age hut Fidenae was an ancient Latin (or Sabine?) town along the…

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Gladiator

Gladiator: professional (or slave) fighter who engaged in combat in a Roman amphitheater.  Mosaic of two gladiators (Kourion) Gladiator – nearly everybody has…

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