During the Republic, an eminently agricultural society, the base of the legions was made up of free citizens who worked their land in times of peace and were recruited in times of war. But that part-time army model was clearly insufficient to attend to the innumerable and prolonged campaigns of conq
MARTIVS was the feminine month of the Roman world, consecrated to the great Mother Goddess, Magna Mater, and was initially the first month of the calendar. The name of the month recalls Mars , Mars , god of vegetation in its origins who ended up embodying the most popular and usual hobby of the Roma
The story of the life and death of Saint Adalbert has survived to our times in an unusual form - it was presented on the Gniezno Doors. To this day, it is not known who commissioned their implementation and by whom they were made. However, despite some ambiguities, this unique monument of culture, u
In other posts we have talked about the castrati, the eunuchs in China (which we call the patron saint of the eunuchs), today we have the eunuchs in Al-Andalus. The fate of the «infidels » captured in battles or raids by the armies of Al-Andalus was enslaved or joined the army as mercenaries. Among