As the upper chamber of the bicameral legislature, it was composed of 250 members, one-third of whom were renewed annually. To enter the Council, a candidate had to be over forty years of age and married or widowed. It was expected to act as a "House of Lords", revising the laws passed by the Council of Five Hundred.
The Turks destroyed the last Greek states of Morea and Trebizond in 1460-61. However, there was also a Hellenistic, so to speak, state that lasted until 1475. This state was located on the Crimean peninsula. After the fall of the City to the crusaders of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, various succe
Apollo he was one of the gods most revered by the ancient Greeks, and he was also present in Roman religion under the name of Phoebus. He was the son of Zeus and Leto and the twin brother of Artemis, being also known as the god of the Sun, music, arts, poetry, among others. He had in the bow and arr
Persephone was known for being the goddess of agriculture and vegetation, being responsible for the fertility of the grains that were planted. Deity that was part of Greek religiosity, Persephone was a goddess of agriculture and vegetation , responsible for fertility. She was the daughter of Dem
Back in the fourth century B.C. Rome was an incipient Republic, compressed in the center of the Italian peninsula, whose only alternative for growth was to absorb all those peoples that surrounded it in its expansion. After imposing itself on other peoples of Lazio in the so-called Latin Wars, Rome