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121Pompeii — /pom pay , pay ee/, n. an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: it was buried along with Herculaneum by an eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79; much of the city has been excavated. * * * Ancient city, southern Italy, southeast… …
122Western architecture — Introduction history of Western architecture from prehistoric Mediterranean cultures to the present. The history of Western architecture is marked by a series of new solutions to structural problems. During the period from the… …
123AELIA CAPITOLINA — AELIA CAPITOLINA, name given to the rebuilt city of Jerusalem by the Romans in 135 C.E. Following the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 C.E. the city remained in ruins except for the camp (castrum) of the Tenth Legion (Fretensis),… …
124Lucius Tarquinius Priscus — Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, also called Tarquin the Elder or Tarquin I, was held by ancient tradition to be the fifth King of Rome, said to have reigned from 616 BC to 578 BC. His wife was Tanaquil.According to Livy, Tarquinius Priscus came from… …
125387 BC — NOTOC EventsBy placeGreece* Antalcidas, commander of the Spartan navy, actively assists Persia against Athens. After escaping from the Athenian blockade at Abydos, he attacks and defeats a small Athenian force, then joins his fleet with a… …
126Somerford Keynes — is also the name of a character in the Rutshire Chronicles books by Jilly Cooper. History A series of salvage excavations at Spratsgate Lane from 1986 to 1988, before the creation of the Cotswold Water Park, revealed part of an Iron Age and Roman …
127Arx (Roman) — Arx is the Latin word for citadel. In the ancient city of Rome, the Arx, not always capitalized, was located on the northern spur of the Capitoline Hill, and is sometimes specified as the Arx Capitolina. Sentries were posted there to watch for a… …
128fetial — /fee sheuhl/, adj. concerned with declarations of war and treaties of peace: fetial law. [1525 35; < L fetialis pertaining to a fetialis, a member of the Roman college of priests who acted as representatives in disputes with foreign nations] * *… …
