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Hace 6 días · Sadly, for the Gauls, their period of prosperity was about to come to a sudden end. In 58 BC Julius Caesar decided to launch the Gallic Wars, an all-out attack against the peoples of Gaul (France, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland). The Gauls may have made a name for themselves as mercenaries, but they were no match for the Roman army.
Hace 5 días · The 2,000-year-old sculpture of the Dying Gaul is a larger-than-life marble sculpture of a nude man on the ground holding himself with one arm, resting weakly on an outstretched leg. His hand sits atop a broken sword on the ground and his head bent downward, the man is dying from a chest wound. The statue has been rediscovered in the early 17th ...
Hace 1 día · In the beginning, about two jugerae (a little over five thousand square meters) were assigned to new landowners (retired soldiers, settlers, prisoners released after a war…), so that approximately a hundred farmers could settle in a century, which is why the system became known as centuriato.
Hace 2 días · In his "Commentaries on the Gallic War," Caesar claimed that the Gauls — members of a Celtic tribe who lived mostly in what's now France and who were defeated by Caesar in 50 B.C. — created massive human figures out of wicker, stuffed them full of real humans, and set the structure on fire to please their gods. But can we believe Caesar?
Hace 1 día · These were part-and-parcel with a newly-increased trade network, a partial revival of the interconnected Mediterranean of the Bronze Age: Greek vessels from the Archaic Period can be found all over the greater Mediterranean, having been purchased by the Gauls of southern France, the Taurians and Colchinians of the northern and eastern Black Sea coasts, the Etruscans of northern Italy, and the ...
Hace 5 días · Germanic peoples. Roman bronze statuette representing a Germanic man with his hair in a Suebian knot. Dating to the late 1st century – early 2nd century A.D. The Germanic peoples were historical groups of people that once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages.
Hace 1 día · The Deeds of Julius Caesar, Rome’s Greatest Son. How the Light of the Wives of Julius Caesar Was Dimmed by an Egyptian Lover. His first wife, Cornelia, bore him his only legitimate child, while his second marriage to Pompeia ended amidst scandalous infidelity. Eventually, Caesar found himself bound to Calpurnia, whose premonition of his ...
