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Cut out for a religious career
Pompeii
To Protect, Serve, and Sell Out:
The Mongol Imperial Guard and the Roman Praetorian Guard
Whereas the Mongol Imperial Guard were created with honest intent and found to be exclusively loyal to their political patron, the khan, the Roman Praetorian Guard were often bribed to sacrifice their own values for the political agendas of the Senate and swayed by their own agendas to oust one emperor for another better suited.
From RogueClassicism.
The End of the Britains
What is in a number?
Whose Birthday?
From Whose Christmas Is It Anyway?
….during the last years of paganism, the cult of Sol remained so popular that the Church Fathers could only neutralize its celebration on the [traditional] winter solstice of December 25th by setting the birthday of Christ on that very same day. In other words, they snatched the day and, sooner rather than later, Christ trumped Sol.
This view is now almost universally accepted; but is it true?
A crowded holiday schedule …. 2000 years ago
On this day in 53 B.C…..
A large Roman army commanded by Marcus Licinius Crassus was defeated by a numerically inferior Parthian force under Surenas near Carrhae in northern Syria. From Rogueclassicism.
Beauty Tips from ancient Rome
I am very beautiful. That’s why they call me Pulchra. Here are some of my beauty tips:
Read them at the Roman Mysteries Blog. Don’t try them at home!
Via RogueClassicism
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 