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Ancient Rome on Film, Part 2: The Empire Strikes Back, from Gladiator to Spartacus Blood and Sand
- by Herodotus
- February 11 2011
For nearly 3 decades, the sword and sandal genre would be dead forever, becoming formulaic and grand spectacles that lost at the box office...
Ancient Rome on Film, Part 1: From Spartacus to the Fall of the Empire
- by Herodotus
- February 04 2011
With the recent announcement that Starz, a successful cable network, was promoting a new version of Spartacus, fans of the sword and sandals genre everywhere are foaming at the mouth.
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Ancient Rome on Film, Part 2: The Empire Strikes Back, from Gladiator to Spartacus Blood and Sand
- by Herodotus
- 5871 views
For nearly 3 decades, the sword and sandal genre would be dead forever, becoming formulaic and grand spectacles that lost at the box office...
The Origins of Halloween Part 1: Samhain and the Celtic Time of Spirits
- by Herodotus
- 5771 views
Did you know that the Jack O’ Lantern is actually thought to represent a severed human head captured in battle? An that in Mexico, some people sleep on the graves on their ancestors on the night before Halloween?
Language and Identity in the Roman Empire
- by Herodotus
- 3691 views
The most detailed records we have of ancient Europeans come to us from early Greek historians who describe the various tribes and peoples that lived at the periphery of their known world...These “Barbarians”, a term coined by the later Romans because of the beards they wore, were bereft of any value and systematic forms of civilizations that existed in the Greek world.
Ancient Rome on Film, Part 1: From Spartacus to the Fall of the Empire
- by Herodotus
- 3284 views
With the recent announcement that Starz, a successful cable network, was promoting a new version of Spartacus, fans of the sword and sandals genre everywhere are foaming at the mouth.
Largest Anglo-Saxon treasure since Sutton Hoo, discovered in England
- by Herodotus
- 2890 views
Experts say the collection of gold and silver pieces, completely reshape our understanding of the Dark Ages. The find containing almost fifteen hundred gold and silver items thought to date from the 7th or 8th century, staggering archeologists with it’s unparalleled in size and may be worth millions.
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