NOTABLE WOMEN OF ANCIENT ROME
One of the downsides of working in antiquity is that you don't have many female voices, but you certainly have a lot of male terror about the potential of women's power. It shows you very clearly that the most oppressive cultures tend to be afraid of those whom they oppress.
— Mary Beard
LET’S TALK GLADIATORS
The girls' heartthrob! The Thracian Celadus, of Octavius -- 3 wins, 3 trophies.
— Graffiti found at Pompeii
HOW THE ROMANS DIFFERED FROM US
All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.
— Galen
HAIL, CAESAR!
When the pirates demanded twenty talents for his ransom, he laughed at them for not knowing who their captive was, and of his own accord agreed to give them fifty.
— Plutarch
THE FORUM BOARIUM
[They] were brought alive underground in the Forum Boarium, in a place surrounded by stones, already for years impregnated with the blood of human victims.
— Livy
BATTLE OF THE MILVIAN BRIDGE
Constantine saw with his own eyes the trophy of a cross of light in the heavens, above the sun, and bearing this inscription: conquer by this.
— Eusebius
CULT OF ANTINOUS
In Mysia, handsome young Hylas was abducted by water nymphs and vanished below the waters of a stream. Heartbroken Herakles went mad with grief, bellowing ‘Hylas! Hylas!’ and ripping out trees as he frantically searched for his beloved. He never abandoned his search, and his cries of ‘Hylas! Hylas!’ continue to echo through the ages every time we say the word ‘alas!’
— Hernestus