Thanks to the Asterix and Obelix comics we have an image of the Gauls as a people who put up great resistance to the Roman occupation, the reality is that the irreducible were the pre-Roman peoples who occupied the peninsula (Iberians, Celts...). It took Rome 8 years to occupy Gaul and 2 centurie
Archimedes of Syracuse He was a mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor and astronomer. He is considered one of the most important scientists of classical antiquity, we owe him inventions such as the Archimedean screw (machine used to raise water), the compound pulley, the lathe, the toothed wh
Overshadowed by the deeds of his son Aníbal , unparalleled military genius who will have plenty of space in this section, the founder of the Bárcidas dynasty (Barqí¤ means the thunderbolt in Canaanite) deserves to be treated with dignity. It emerged as a great rival of the Roman Republic and was the
Since the calendar reform promoted by Julius Caesar in 45 B.C. (Julian calendar), the first month of the year became 31 days. Ianuarius It was the month dedicated to the god of roads, beginnings and endings, Jano . All that Roman who embarked on a new business, or the arrival of a child or a marria
It seems that the title of this article is a random combination of vowels and consonants, but it is only part of it. The full title would be: Cesautica-Claunegalo-Dressed-Nertraa-Antmarco Now one could say that it is another, even longer, combination of vowels and consonants. Well no, now I can
Although there are still places and cultures where being a woman is a risky profession, little by little and with great difficulty, rights and freedoms have been equated with men. In ancient Greece, the cradle of democracy and Western civilization, women were ignored, valued only for their reproduct
Year 46 BC Ostia beach, Rome… Teolus Palangum, legionnaire of the III cohort, IX legion, IV row, well known by his companions for his constant pranks and pranks, prepared to perform minor aquas ). Being on maneuvers and therefore, the beach full of legionnaires, Teolus grabbed the regulation helme
If nowadays ketchup, bolognese, tartar, rose... are the most popular sauces, it was not always like that. In this post we are going to deal with the most popular sauce in times of the Roman Empire, garum . It seems that its origin dates back to the time of the Tartessos – more or less in the southe
In the battle of Zama , 202 BC, the Carthaginian army and the great Hannibal – scourge of the Romans - they were defeated by Scipio «the African» . A peace treaty was signed which, like the previous ones, left Cartago touched, and almost sunk. So, Hannibal (the best strategist in history) he chang
Sorry, its not the smile of the Mona Lisa . Im talking about the gesture known as the clemency of Scipio «. Historians Polybius and Livio Titus were in charge of spreading this story after the conquest of Cartago Nova (Cartagena) by Scipio the African . It seems clear that with the intention of pr
As its name indicates, it was the eighth month of the Roman calendar . In the old republican iconography this month was represented as a hunter, with a hare at his feet, birds above him and a pond in the background. In Imperial times it was represented covered with deciduous leaves, since it was in
We have already talked in this blog about Aníbal and of Scipio , but there was a meeting between the two, already exiled, in the court of King Antiochus that has me fly. After discussing the issues of the time (soccer, women, wine, wars...) the Roman general asked the Carthaginian: Who do you thin
November It is the ninth month of the Roman calendar. If we could classify the months by their importance and relevance in Roman religious and festive life, this would undoubtedly be the last. It was a month little dedicated to celebrations, since it was the month of planting, and for this reason m
The great military success of Rome was due to the great work in the field of engineering, to the pacts, the occasional betrayal... and, above all, to the legions. Organized, disciplined military structures, with great mobility (they could travel 50 km/day) and maneuverability. They were made up of R
I remember when I was studying the EGB (I do not know exactly the equivalence with the current educational system) that a common question, it seems to me that in the subject of Language, were the names of the Spanish populations. Some of them had little to do with the name of the town, you learned t
Chrysippus of Soli , called «Column of the Portico «, was a Greek philosopher of the third century BC. who was influenced by the New Academy and became one of the main figures of Stoicism . A slightly arrogant scholar –if I thought there was someone better than me, I would have gone to be taught -,
Today we have the collaboration of our friend Lacedemonia (author of the book «The Knight of the Dawn «). Foto: Eurisco While the world of Davintian code literature is struggling to find new formulas to find the Holy Grail , lets focus on one of the candidates, the one that according to many peop
The philosopher and mathematician Thales of Miletus , teacher of Pythagoras , is the author of this sentence: I will feel sufficiently recognized if, when you tell others, you do not explain that the discovery is yours but that it is mine . The teacher was the first blogger in history . With thi
Today the use of Roman numerals is limited to certain fields: watches list volumes, chapters and volumes of a work. names of popes, kings and emperors. acts and scenes of a play. in the designation of congresses, Olympics, assemblies, contests, etc. Initially they only used the symbol «I» for the
Hypatia was born in Alexandria (Egypt) in 370. She was the daughter of Theon, a renowned philosopher and mathematician of the time who worked in the museum founded by Ptolemy. It was not the most common, but Theon he wanted his daughter to follow in his footsteps. His training developed, mainly, f
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets In the last entry of the series that we are dedicating to the conquest of Wales by England (Origin of the title Prince of Wales to designate the heir to the English throne) we pointed out that years after the integration of Wales into the English crown prod
In 1827 the Greek revolution was blowing the whistle. The blunders of the leadership had allowed Ibrahim to settle in the Peloponnese. Messolonghi had fallen and the Egyptian troops were leveling Moria. At the same time, Kioutachis was burning Roumeli. Few places were still held by the Greek revolut
How his relations with the Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito were disrupted, Mikis Theodorakis reveals in his reply letter to the well-known Skopje tenor Blagoza Nakoski, who protested - in an open letter to the media - about the Greek composers clear position on the issue of the naming of Skopje, whi
diphtheria is an acute infectious disease caused by the bacterium called Corynebacterium diphtheriae and it is transmitted, mainly, by the respiratory route (microscopic droplets that are emitted when speaking, coughing or sneezing). During the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th, several