fasti
fasti , in ancient Rome, dies fasti were days on which public business could be transacted without impiety. The word also came to be used for the calendars and almanacs that contained such information as holy days, festivals, and historical events. The first known fasti was published in 304 BC
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Ancient Rome.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Newspaper article from: Library Bookwatch; 3/1/2005; 164 words
; Ancient Rome Christopher S. Mackay Cambridge University...articles on all periods of Roman history, Ancient Rome: A Military And Political History is a comprehensive political history ancient Rome from the city's origins during the Italian...
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Life, Myth, and Art in Ancient Rome.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Newspaper article from: Library Bookwatch; 3/1/2005; 183 words
; Life, Myth, And Art In Ancient Rome Tony Allan Getty Publications 1200...readers with Life, Myth, And Art In Ancient Rome, a richly illustrated volume that...chapter. Life, Myth, And Art In Ancient Rome is an especially recommended acquisition...
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Rome reborn.(INFO ZONE)(new computer simulation )
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; ...OMITTED] Now it's time to take a tour of ancient Rome's most famous landmark--the Colosseum...Reborn Engineers create a virtual tour of ancient Rome. Before You Read Ask: Where is the city...ago? Background * Tell me more about ancient Rome. According to Roman myth, Romulus and...
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Matyszak, Philip. Ancient Rome on 5 denarii a day; your guide to sleeping, shopping and sightseeing in the city of the Caesars.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Kliatt; 11/1/2008; ; 295 words
; MATYSZAK, Philip. Ancient Rome on 5 denarii a day; your guide to sleeping, shopping and sightseeing...978-0-500-28760-6. $18.95. SA The author is a specialist on ancient Rome, and has written several books on the subject, including Enemies...
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Exploring Ancient Rome.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Children's Bookwatch; 11/1/2005; 83 words
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Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ancient Rome.
Magazine article from: Arts & Activities; 1/1/2005; ; 176 words
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Ancient Rome in early opera.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2009; 131 words
; 9780252033780 Ancient Rome in early opera. Ketterer, Robert C. U. of Illinois Press 2009...Roman historical figures and subjects. He traces composers' use of Ancient Rome from early opera through the end of the eighteenth century, with...
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Getorix: The Eagle and the Bull, a Celtic Adventure in Ancient Rome.(Book review)
Magazine article from: ForeWord; 11/1/2006; ; 494 words
; ...Title: Getorix: The Eagle and The Bull, A Celtic Adventure in Ancient Rome Work Author(s): Judith Geary; Caroline S. Garrett, illustrator...readers visualize the relics, costumes, weapons, and people of ancient Rome. Getorix will be of interest to readers because many of the...
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Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2009; ; 540 words
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Outline history of Rome; from the earliest record (753 B.C.) to the code of Justinian (A.D. 534).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2006; 112 words
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Le Neve, John
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Le Neve, John (1679–1741), English antiquary. His Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae (1716) records the succession of dignitaries in English and Welsh cathedrals.
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almanac
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...invention of writing, for they served to record religious feasts, seasonal changes, and the like. The Roman fasti, originally a list of dies fasti (days when legal business might be transacted) and dies nefasti (days when legal business should not be...
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Ovid
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...x2018;collective’ narrative relating disconnected stories inside a large historical ( Metamorphoses ) or chronological ( Fasti ) frame, and finally with elegies of nostalgic complaint ( Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto ). Ovid continued in favour with writers...
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marry
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...not long a-doing .) marry in May, rue for aye proverbial saying, late 17th century, but earlier in Latin. Ovid comments in his Fasti ‘if proverbs influence you, the common people say it is bad luck to marry in May.’ never marry for money, but...
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pricking of one's thumbs
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...comes.’ It was customary to fold the thumb into the palm of the hand as a precaution against the supernatural; Ovid's Fasti refers to a person pointing ‘with his closed fingers, and his thumb Put in the midst, lest ghosts should near him come...
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