Another year, and gladly, I join the initiative of Senovilla and Ángel… Today we will talk about faith . Today I will talk about one of the greatest acts of faith, understood as trust and hope , of history. Dionysius I The prisoner soldier mentioned the deal to a friend of his and he accepted it
Those who have tried eels, my pocket only allows me those from Aguinaga, say that it is an exquisite delicacy... that the Romans already tasted and tasted, although they were more of the fathers of eels, eels, and moray eels. If we put aside the bad smell, little would have to envy a Roman dish such
Our archenemy today is a secondary of the History of the Roman East. Other more important or influential characters in his environment diminished his prominence. Tigranes II (Tigran Mets in Eastern Armenian, Dikram Metz listen)) was king of Armenia from 95 to 55 BC. There is no consensus on whether
How could it be otherwise, “The oldest trade in the world ”, as we have read in many texts, was also exercised in the cities and colonies of Rome. Much of our terminology when defining this ancient dedication comes from these times. Today we will talk about brothels, which is what brothels or brothe
Now you will never be able to say that you have not been to a brothel... in Arvinas house . On the other hand, it did mark me the first time I lay alone with a woman. It was shortly after the first and disastrous stake. What anguish I went through. One lazy summer afternoon, my friend Labienus, Emi
It is difficult, at first glance, to relate Coca-Cola and Durex, as representative figures of beverages and condoms marketed throughout the world, with a Hellenistic mathematician who lived during the 1st century... but not impossible. In addition to the success of the product itself and the massiv
Today we will talk about one of the most reviled villains of his time, perhaps because the little we really know about him comes from his most bitter adversary, Gaius Julius Caesar , whose Comments on the Gallic Wars they served as a basis for later classical historians such as Livy, Plutarch or D
We are all familiar with the expression «you are older than Methuselah » to express that a person is very old or, rather, has many years. The comparison with Methuselah is due to the fact that he is the oldest person mentioned in the Old Testament (he died at the age of 969 years) and for you to hav
If at the time we already talked about the patron saint of experts, eunuchs and whores, today we have to deal with Vespasian , the pattern of this hobby, almost turned into a job, so fashionable today. Vespasian he was emperor of the Roman Empire from 69 to 79 and founder of the Flavian Dynasty.
In the month of April we told you about a day of whores in ancient Rome, today we are going to see the kinds of whores that we could find. Delicatae :they were the luxury whores to which only the most powerful had access. The ones that are now chosen with a catalog and a little apartment is put o
The chariot races of ancient Rome would be equivalent to todays Formula 1. As we anticipated in the previous post, in which you can consult certain technical aspects (, we have the story of one of them extracted from VALENTIA, Las Memorias de Cayo Antonio Naso : A sonorous fanfare to the sound of
I guess the history of diving is as old as humanity itself. Diving into the waters to get food has nothing special or particular, but I am referring to the use of some kind of gadget to be able to dive longer than the time allowed by freediving. The great Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC), the philosoph
Fourteenth installment of “Archienemies de Roma “. Collaboration of Gabriel Castelló. Today we will talk about the barbarian leader to whom the doctors of History have granted the honorable honor of liquidating the decrepit Western Empire and, with it, ushering in the Middle Ages. Perhaps, if he h
Saint Dahlia Continuing with our endless journey through the biographies of the great characters of history, we stop, so as not to step on him, in front of Dalia , Christian nobleman who lived at the end of the century, beginning of the next. Gregory Gustaf Dalianevof, son of his father and his mo
To this day we still enjoy a good work of fiction as much as an exciting sporting spectacle. With a more limited capacity to be able to have a good vision and hearing of the scene, we squeezed into rows of seats, eating trifles waiting for a group of actors to surround us with their tragedies and jo
We invite you to travel back in time and witness a performance in the Sicilian theater: We arrived at the crowded entrance to the theater, a sober semicircular construction of porous gray granite lining a gentle hill facing the sea. The complex left me stunned, being able to verify that the Syrac
Spartacus, Blood and Sand. Capua, southern Italy, around 73 BCA blazing sun… The sand… thousands of blurred faces and arms make up the oval that surrounds two muscular and agile men. The enthusiastic public cheers them on and rebukes them... Feints, jumps, somersaults, lunges and some punctures a
Mr. Confucius Today the historical character that marked an entire era and several more centuries, in addition to mises contests. The great and pseudo well-known, Confucius or Confucius (latinized) or Confu (inventor of Konfú, a martial art that split from traditional Kunfú and was rescued from obl
What better start for this new section than one of the rituals that best define the ancient Roman world:The Baths . Origin :There is a lot of topic in the public baths of ancient Rome. Like many other cultural achievements, the idea is not properly Roman, but Greek. It is true that in classical Gre
Collaboration of Gabriel Castelló. We are going to analyze some of the most notorious kits of this successful television series Hispania which bases its staging and content more on an adaptation of “Curro Jiménez ” to the Roman than to a “Rome ” from HBO to Hispanic, with evil invaders, outraged p
Without this brilliant speaker and master of political propaganda, Hitler would have had a much harder time starting the Second World War. What was Goebbels like in private, who persistently poisoned the hearts and minds of the Germans with the virus of Nazism? Christopher Macht tries to answer this
Entry extracted from the book From Covadonga to Tamarón. The history of the Arab conquest and domination of the Iberian Peninsula and the process of birth and growth of the different Christian kingdoms and counties that ended up expelling the Muslims spans almost eight centuries and, therefore, it
Today, the long-awaited Netflix series The Witcher, based on the cult books by Andrzej Sapkowski, has its premiere. Wild Hunt is one of the most important themes in this story. It was he who also gave the title of the third part of the equally cult game. What is this mythical pursuit? The concep
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets On December 29, 1170, four English knights entered Canterbury Cathedral and murdered Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, in cold blood. This article aims to analyze the causes and consequences of this momentous event. In 1154, Henry II, the first P