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    The Roman Empire ruled the Mediterranean and much of Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. The Romans conquered most of this during the Republic, and...
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    Janus (redirect from Janus (Roman religion))
    the Horatius (I 26, 6 and 11): R. Schilling, "Janus. Le dieu introducteur. Le dieu des passages", Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire 72 (1960), p. 110...
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    (1992), p. 161. Gordon & Simon (2010), p. 15. Flint (1998), pp. 37–38. Curse Tablets from Roman Britain, UK: Oxford, retrieved 2006-12-25. Adams (2005)...
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  • piano and Tai chi, Calmann-Lévy 1995: Passage de l'Ange, novel, Calmann-Lévy 2001: L'Homme qui savait tout, le roman de Pic de la Mirandole, novel, Éditions...
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    against everything we know of Roman design principles in general and of Augustan architecture in particular." The only passages referring to the decoration...
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    Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich (Russian: Роман Аркадьевич Абрамович, pronounced [rɐˈman ɐrˈkadʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ɐbrɐˈmovʲɪtɕ]; born 24 October 1966) is a Russian...
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    carriers. This led to the rediscovery and excavation of the rump passage, in 1980. The passage consists of an upper and a lower section, which are angled roughly...
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    Les funérailles du général Marceau, 20 September 1796. La bataille d'Aboukir, 25 July 1799. La bataille de Jemmappes, 6 November 1792. Le passage du...
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    classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016 because of its exceptional Roman architecture, its urban layout as a smaller reflection of Rome itself, and...
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    Chi Rho (category Roman-era Greek inscriptions)
    Chi-Rho symbol was also used to mark a particularly valuable or relevant passage in the margin of a page, abbreviating chrēston (good). Some coins of Ptolemy...
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    sonnets about the Nile around the same time. Shelley and Smith both chose a passage from the writings of the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus in Bibliotheca...
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    Vestal Virgin (category 390s disestablishments in the Roman Empire)
    the Roman Republic (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 143. ISBN 9781107669420. Cornell, Tim. "Some observations on the crimen incesti". In: Le délit...
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    Renée L. Curtis, ed. Le Roman de Tristan en prose, vols. 1–3 (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1963–1985) and Philippe Ménard, exec. ed. Le Roman de Tristan en Prose...
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    Paris: Seuil, 1998, ISBN 2-02-025932-X, p. 56 W. Den Boer, Some Minor Roman Historians, Leiden: Brill, 1972, ISBN 90-04-03545-1, p. 41 Yann Le Bohec, The...
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    Gidel, Les Deux Guitry 1996 – Anka Muhlstein, Astolphe de Custine 1997 – Jean-Claude Lamy, Prévert, les frères 1998 – Christian Liger, Le Roman de Rossel...
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    them. The Romans were referred as Romakas in India while the Romans referred Indians as Indos. Indo-Roman relations were built on trade. Roman trade in...
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    Guy; Sasseville, Jacques; Bruneau, Diane; Lachance, Renaud (1998). Wilson & Lafleur (ed.). Les principes de l'imposition au Canada (12 ed.). pp. 11–13, 20–23...
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    oblique passage to the tomb." This statement has generated much speculation, as it suggests that the pyramid could be entered at this time. The Roman writer...
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    Third Punic War (category Wars involving the Roman Republic)
    S2CID 162905667. Sidwell, Keith C.; Jones, Peter V. (1998). The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press....
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  • Suetonius, Claudius 25, in the same passage containing one of the earliest mentions of Christianity as a threat. P.A. Brunt, Roman Imperial Themes (Oxford University...
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    Saturn (Latin: Sāturnus [saːˈtʊrnʊs]) was a god in ancient Roman religion, and a character in Roman mythology. He was described as a god of time, generation...
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    the Study of Roman Sexuality," in Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity, pp. 218, 224. Plautus, Curculio 35–38. The passage is something of...
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    in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingdom (c. 2686 – c. 2181 BCE)...
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    The Northeast Passage (abbreviated as NEP; Russian: Северо-Восточный проход, romanized: Severo-Vostochnyy prokhod, Norwegian: Nordøstpassasjen) is the...
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    Colosseum (redirect from Roman Colosseum)
    amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the...
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    Michel Butor (category Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni)
    to categories suggested by Jean Duffy's guide to Michel Butor. Passage de Milan (Les Editions de Minuit, 1954). Chapters VII-X, trans. Guy Daniels in...
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    John (2014). Roman Helmets. Amberley Publishing. pp. 59–60, 68. ISBN 9781445638478. Versnel, Henk (1998). Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion, Volume...
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    1994: 5150 rue des Ormes 1995: Le Passager 1998: Sur le Seuil 2000: Aliss (a retelling of Alice in Wonderland) 2002: Les Sept Jours du Talion (translated...
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    nationes 2.11: The passage in Tertullian has a problematic point that may specify first births; Gaston Boissier, Étude sur la vie et les ouvrages de M.T...
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    John F. (1983). Roman Gaul: The Three Provinces, 58 BC-AD 260 (2014 ed.). Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-75074-1. Fichtl, Stephan (2004). Les peuples gaulois:...
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