Italy

There are 1098 items in Italy:

Aedile

Aedile: Roman magistrate, responsible for the Games and the maintenance of the temples.The original tasks of the two plebeian aediles are unclear. The name suggests that they had something to do with an aedes ('shrine'), but the Greek translation agoranomos…

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Aequi

Aequi: ancient people, originally living in the western Apennines. Migrating to eastern Latium, they became one of the four main enemies of archaic Rome. …

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Agrigento: sights

Acragas (Ἀκράγας): Greek town in southern Sicily, modern Agrigento. The so-called Temple of the Dioscuri Acragas had two building phases: the sixth-fifth century, and…

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