Sixth month of the Roman calendar dedicated to the hunting goddess, Diana . His obvious ordinal name endured until, as had happened with his predecessor Gaius Julius Caesar, a Senate decree ruled to change the name of the month to the unquestionable Princeps of the Republic, savior of the state and
Today we will discover a singular character of our old Hispania. But, to better understand the origin and context of it, we will have to start with the most basic. Corocotta He was the best-known Cantabrian leader during the wars that pitted this indomitable people against Rome. But, who were those
Nature has taught us, at a high price, that no one can dominate it, but some thought they could control the elements, in this case the sea. During the Second Medical War (480-479 BC), between Persians and Greeks, the king of the pears, Xerxes I , he intended to cross the Dardanelles Strait with his
We use the expression «touch my eggs «, accompanied by the gesture of reaching out to the very same, as a sign of contempt and mockery towards our interlocutor, but where does this expression come from? The great Greek historian and geographerHerodotus of Halicarnassus , in Book II dedicated to Anci
MAIVS It owes its name to the goddess to which it was consecrated, Maia , also known as the Bona Dea . Another theory maintains that it was the month of the elders, the maiorum, but among scholars of the subject the first option seems to weigh more. Maia was the goddess of fertility, chastity, and h
In other times, wars were initiated and declared by monarchs, champions, dictators, emperors... the responsibility fell on one person or, at most, on a small group and their motives were power, wealth, submission and other reasons for this. caliber. In Athens, where democracy was born, the decision
Virtual reconstructions of the Roman cities of Bílbilis (Calatayud, Zaragoza) and Labitolosa (La Puebla de Castro, Huesca). Carried out by the research group URBS and the GIGA (Advanced Graphic Engineering Group) of the University of Zaragoza. Bilbilis Forum Bilbilis Hot Springs Bilbilis Th
I am not going to list all the contraceptive methods that women have suffered in history. And I say suffered, because throughout history man has decided even the most intimate of a woman. The easiest and most frequent was the introduction of foreign bodies in the uterus to plug the seminal fluid. In
The stone, 25 by 15 cm, in which an everyday scene from prehistory was represented, a man in search of food, was exhibited at the British Museum in London in 2005. The name of the work «Early Man » and its author Banksymus Maximus. As indicated in the explanatory panel next to the work: The author
Boudica , also known as Boadicea in Latin sources, she was the queen of the Iceni, a British tribe that inhabited what is now the county of Nortfolk, in eastern England. Coming from the indigenous nobility, her husband was Prasutagus, King of the Eceni . Both Cassius Dio and Tacitus agree on the
Last month of the year in the classical republican calendar and second in the Julian calendar, it was a month dedicated to the goddess Februa , the mother of Mars and also Februus , the Etruscan ancestor of Pluto, god of the underworld. The month of purification par excellence, the rites in honor of
Third installment of «Archienemies of Rome «. Collaboration with Gabriel Castelló.Alaric, King of the Goths . Alhareiks, which is how his name was pronounced in Gothic, was born in 370 AD in the confines of Dacia (Romania) on an island known as Peuké, the largest island in the Danube Delta. Son of
Lately we are being bombarded with state pacts, economic proposals, trial balloons, miracle recipes... As I believe that no one with any power in this country reads this post, I am going to allow myself to launch a piece of advice/recommendation: When you dont have solutions for certain problems, l
Fourth installment of «Archienemies of Rome «. Collaboration of Gabriel Castelló. Mithridates VI , in Greek ÎœÎ¹Î¸Ï Î¹Î´Î¬Ï„Î Ï‚ , was born in Sinope (Sinop, Turkey) in 132 BC. C. He was known by his contemporaries as Eupator Dionysius or simply as Mithridates the Great . He held the crown of the
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
Numidius It was a satellite kingdom of the Roman Republic in the late 2nd century BC. It owed its existence to Rome after the prince of the Masilian and Masesilian tribes, the arrogant cavalry captain Masinissa , opted for the Roman side during the Second Punic War . Masinissa died of extreme old ag
April It derives from the Latin verb aperire, which means to open, because in this month is when the land opens, which will later bear its fruits. It is also said that it may derive from the Greek voice aphril , foam, because this month was dedicated to Venus , the Aphrodite (Aphros ) Greek born in
Sixth installment of “Archienemies of Rome “. Collaboration of Gabriel Castelló. Geiserish , better known as Genseric , was a long-lived Germanic king whose deeds and exploits helped the word vandalism to have such pejorative connotations that it has. In the nearly fifty years that he held his lea
Although our country, externally, is identified with bullfighting, paella, sun and flamenco, there is something that is not entirely true. It is true that bullfights are typical of our culture and tradition, but the first bullfighter was not Hispanic... it was the Greek Theseus. At the death of th
The tenth month of the Roman calendar was, in terms of festivities, the most spectacular and lively of the entire year. In this month the idyllic golden age in which Saturn reigned over the rest of the divinities was commemorated. It was also the month in which the winter solstice occurred, a date m
One of the first measures that Hitler took after his rise to power was the abandonment of the League of Nations, it was his way of showing in practice his rejection of the international order of Versailles. Rejection that he had made very clear at the beginning of Nazism, in the 25 Points of the DAP
It is often thought that beer has its origins in the Germanic peoples, and that, due to the Roman Empire and the popularity of wine, beer did not begin to be produced and spread until shortly after the invasions of the so-called barbarians. Beer was already known many years before by civilizations a
Logically, the different religious currents have had a great influence on the future of the events of the peoples throughout history, and it would be foolish for me not to recognize that European societies were modeled by the predominant Church in each one. of them, whether Catholic or Protestant. T
The failure of attempts to conquer England (such as that of the Spanish Armada or the Battle of Britain in World War II) has contributed to the myth that British insularity constitutes an insurmountable defense for enemy armies since the Norman invasion of William the Conqueror in 1066, the last tim