Samnites, the Glossary
The Samnites were an ancient Italic people who lived in Samnium, which is located in modern inland Abruzzo, Molise, and Campania in south-central Italy.[1]
Table of Contents
508 relations: A&E Networks, Abdomen, Abrasive, Abruzzo, Adjective, Adriatic Sea, Adult, Aeneas, Afterlife, Agora, Agriculture, Alfedena, Allifae, Amphora, Amsterdam University Press, Amulet, Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek architecture, Ancient Greek art, Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek military personal equipment, Ancient Greek warfare, Animal, Animal husbandry, Ankle, Anthony Everitt, Apocrypha, Appian, Apulia, Archaeological record, Architecture, Aristocracy, Arm, Armistice, Aspis, Athena, Athenaeus, Atlas, Atrium (architecture), Augur, Augury, Axe, Banquet, Battle of Aquilonia, Battle of the Caudine Forks, Battle of the Colline Gate, Battle of the Cranita hills, Beacon, Beaker (archaeology), Bibliotheca historica, ... Expand index (458 more) »
- Ancient Abruzzo
- History of Campania
- Italic peoples
A&E Networks
A&E Television Networks, LLC, stylized as A+E NETWORKS, is an American multinational broadcasting company that is a 50–50 joint venture between Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company through its Entertainment division.
Abdomen
The abdomen (colloquially called the belly, tummy, midriff, tucky or stomach) is the part of the body between the thorax (chest) and pelvis, in humans and in other vertebrates.
Abrasive
An abrasive is a material, often a mineral, that is used to shape or finish a workpiece through rubbing which leads to part of the workpiece being worn away by friction.
Abruzzo
Abruzzo (Abbrùzze, Abbrìzze or Abbrèzze; Abbrùzzu), historically known as Abruzzi, is a region of Southern Italy with an area of 10,763 square km (4,156 sq mi) and a population of 1.3 million.
Adjective
An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.
Adriatic Sea
The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula.
Adult
An adult is a human or other animal that has reached full growth.
Aeneas
In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (from) was a Trojan hero, the son of the Trojan prince Anchises and the Greek goddess Aphrodite (equivalent to the Roman Venus).
Afterlife
The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues to exist after the death of their physical body.
Agora
The agora (ἀγορά, romanized:, meaning "market" in Modern Greek) was a central public space in ancient Greek city-states.
Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.
Alfedena
Alfedena (Aufidena or Aufidenia, Abruzzese: Fëdena) is a comune in the province of L'Aquila of the Abruzzo region of central Italy.
Allifae
Allifae was an ancient town of Italy, a center of Oscan or Samnite origin, situated in the valley of the Vulturnus, at the foot of the lofty mountain group now called the Monte Matese, about 40 km northwest of Telesia, and 27 km east-northwest of Teano.
Amphora
An amphora (ἀμφορεύς|; English) is a type of container with a pointed bottom and characteristic shape and size which fit tightly (and therefore safely) against each other in storage rooms and packages, tied together with rope and delivered by land or sea.
Amsterdam University Press
Amsterdam University Press (AUP) is a university press that was founded in 1992 by the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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Amulet
An amulet, also known as a good luck charm or phylactery, is an object believed to confer protection upon its possessor.
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
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Ancient Greek architecture
Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works dating from around 600 BC.
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Ancient Greek art
Ancient Greek art stands out among that of other ancient cultures for its development of naturalistic but idealized depictions of the human body, in which largely nude male figures were generally the focus of innovation.
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Ancient Greek literature
Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire.
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Ancient Greek military personal equipment
Ancient Greek weapons and armor were primarily geared towards combat between individuals.
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Ancient Greek warfare
Warfare occurred throughout the history of Ancient Greece, from the Greek Dark Ages onward.
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Animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.
Animal husbandry
Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.
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Ankle
The ankle, the talocrural region or the jumping bone (informal) is the area where the foot and the leg meet.
Anthony Everitt
Anthony Everitt (born 31 January 1940), Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 is a British author.
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Apocrypha
Apocrypha are biblical or related writings not forming part of the accepted canon of scripture.
Appian
Appian of Alexandria (Appianòs Alexandreús; Appianus Alexandrinus) was a Greek historian with Roman citizenship who prospered during the reigns of the Roman Emperors Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius.
Apulia
Apulia, also known by its Italian name Puglia, is a region of Italy, located in the southern peninsular section of the country, bordering the Adriatic Sea to the east, the Strait of Otranto and Ionian Sea to the southeast and the Gulf of Taranto to the south.
Archaeological record
The archaeological record is the body of physical (not written) evidence about the past.
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Architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.
Aristocracy
Aristocracy is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocrats.
Arm
In human anatomy, the arm refers to the upper limb in common usage, although academically the term specifically means the upper arm between the glenohumeral joint (shoulder joint) and the elbow joint.
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Armistice
An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting.
Aspis
An aspis (ἀσπίς;: aspides, ἀσπίδες) or porpax shield was the heavy wooden shield used by the infantry in various periods of ancient Greece.
Athena
Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.
Athenaeus
Athenaeus of Naucratis (Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, Athēnaios Naukratitēs or Naukratios; Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD.
Atlas
An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a continent or region of Earth.
Atrium (architecture)
In architecture, an atrium (atria or atriums) is a large open-air or skylight-covered space surrounded by a building.
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Augur
An augur was a priest and official in the classical Roman world.
Augury
Augury was a Greco-Roman religion practice of observing the behavior of birds, to receive omens.
Axe
An axe (sometimes ax in American English; see spelling differences) is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split, and cut wood, to harvest timber, as a weapon, and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol.
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Banquet
A banquet is a formal large meal where a number of people consume food together.
Battle of Aquilonia
The Battle of Aquilonia, was fought between the Roman Republic and the Samnites during the Third Samnite War in 293 BC.
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Battle of the Caudine Forks
The Battle of Caudine Forks, 321 BC, was a decisive event of the Second Samnite War.
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Battle of the Colline Gate
The Battle of the Colline Gate, fought on 1 November 82 BC, was the decisive battle of the civil war between Lucius Cornelius Sulla and the Marians, Samnites and Lucanians.
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Battle of the Cranita hills
The Battle of the Cranita Hills was fought in 277 BC between a Roman and a Samnite army during the Pyrrhic War (280-275 BC).
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Beacon
A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location.
Beaker (archaeology)
In archaeology, a beaker is a small round ceramic or metal drinking vessel shaped to be held in the hands.
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Bibliotheca historica
Bibliotheca historica (Βιβλιοθήκη Ἱστορική) is a work of universal history by Diodorus Siculus.
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Biferno
The Biferno is a river of Molise, in southern Italy.
Bill (law)
A bill is a proposal for a new law, or a proposal to significantly change an existing law.
Black
Black is a color that results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light.
Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.
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Bojano
Bojano or Boiano is a town and comune in the province of Campobasso, Molise, south-central Italy.
Boot
A boot is a type of footwear.
Bowl
A bowl is a typically round dish or container generally used for preparing, serving, storing, or consuming food.
Boy
A boy is a young male human.
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Breastplate
A breastplate or chestplate is a device worn over the torso to protect it from injury, as an item of religious significance, or as an item of status.
Brill Publishers
Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.
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Bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon.
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
Bronze Age sword
Bronze Age swords appeared from around the 17th century BC, in the Black Sea and Aegean regions, as a further development of the dagger.
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Brooch
A brooch (also) is a decorative jewellery item designed to be attached to garments, often to fasten them together.
Bucchero
Bucchero is a class of ceramics produced in central Italy by the region's pre-Roman Etruscan population.
Bull
A bull is an intact (i.e., not castrated) adult male of the species Bos taurus (cattle).
Cabbage
Cabbage, comprising several cultivars of Brassica oleracea, is a leafy green, red (purple), or white (pale green) biennial plant grown as an annual vegetable crop for its dense-leaved heads.
Caecilius Statius
Statius Caecilius, also known as Caecilius Statius (c. 220 BC – c. 166 BC), was a Celtic Roman comic poet.
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Caiazzo
Caiazzo is a city and comune in the province of Caserta (Campania) in Italy.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Campania
Campania is an administrative region of Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the island of Capri.
Campobasso
Campobasso (Cambuàsce) is a city and comune in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Molise and of the province of Campobasso.
Campochiaro
Campochiaro is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Campobasso in the Italian region Molise, located about southwest of Campobasso.
Campus
A campus is by tradition the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated.
Canton (administrative division)
A canton is a type of administrative division of a country.
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Cap
A cap is a flat headgear, usually with a visor.
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Cape
A cape is a clothing accessory or a sleeveless outer garment which drapes the wearer's back, arms, and chest, and connects at the neck.
Capital (architecture)
In architecture, the capital or chapiter forms the topmost member of a column (or a pilaster).
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Capital city
A capital city or just capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational division, usually as its seat of the government.
Caraceni (tribe)
The Caraceni or Caricini or Carricini were a tribe of the Italic Samnites.
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Carbohydrate
A carbohydrate is a biomolecule consisting of carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) atoms, usually with a hydrogen–oxygen atom ratio of 2:1 (as in water) and thus with the empirical formula (where m may or may not be different from n), which does not mean the H has covalent bonds with O (for example with, H has a covalent bond with C but not with O).
Cassia gens
The gens Cassia was a Roman family of great antiquity.
Catholic Encyclopedia
The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, also referred to as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia and the Original Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language encyclopedia published in the United States designed to serve the Catholic Church.
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Cattle
Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers.
Caudini
The Caudini were a Samnite tribe that lived among the mountains ringing Campania and in the valleys of the Isclero and Volturnus rivers.
Cavalry
Historically, cavalry (from the French word cavalerie, itself derived from cheval meaning "horse") are soldiers or warriors who fight mounted on horseback.
Cella
In Classical architecture, a cella or is the inner chamber of an ancient Greek or Roman temple.
Celsius
The degree Celsius is the unit of temperature on the Celsius temperature scale "Celsius temperature scale, also called centigrade temperature scale, scale based on 0 ° for the melting point of water and 100 ° for the boiling point of water at 1 atm pressure." (originally known as the centigrade scale outside Sweden), one of two temperature scales used in the International System of Units (SI), the other being the closely related Kelvin scale.
Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.
Cereal
A cereal is a grass cultivated for its edible grain.
Chameleon
Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 200 species described as of June 2015.
Chape
Chape has had various meanings in English, but the predominant one is a protective fitting at the bottom of a scabbard or sheath for a sword or dagger (10 in the diagram).
Chariot racing
Chariot racing (ἁρματοδρομία, harmatodromía; ludi circenses) was one of the most popular ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine sports.
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Chatelaine (chain)
A chatelaine is a decorative belt hook or clasp worn at the waist with a series of chains suspended from it.
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Childbirth
Childbirth, also known as labour, parturition and delivery, is the completion of pregnancy where one or more babies exits the internal environment of the mother via vaginal delivery or caesarean section.
Chin
The chin is the forward pointed part of the anterior mandible (mental region) below the lower lip.
Chiton (garment)
A chiton (chitṓn) is a form of tunic that fastens at the shoulder, worn by men and women of ancient Greece and Rome.
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Classical Philology (journal)
Classical Philology is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1906.
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Classification of swords
The English language terminology used in the classification of swords is imprecise and has varied widely over time.
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Clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).
Closed captioning
Closed captioning (CC) and subtitling are both processes of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information.
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Clothing in ancient Greece
Clothing in ancient Greece refers to clothing starting from the Aegean bronze age (3000 BCE) to the Hellenistic period (31 BCE).
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Cohort (military unit)
A cohort (from the Latin cohors,: cohortes; see wikt:cohors for full inflection table) was a standard tactical military unit of a Roman legion.
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Coin
A coin is a small object, usually round and flat, used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender.
Collar (clothing)
In clothing, a collar is the part of a shirt, dress, coat or blouse that fastens around or frames the neck.
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Colonnade
In classical architecture, a colonnade is a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing, or part of a building.
Column
A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below.
Commander-in-chief
A commander-in-chief or supreme commander is the person who exercises supreme command and control over an armed force or a military branch.
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Cornice
In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, around the top edge of a pedestal, or along the top of an interior wall.
Crucifixion
Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the condemned is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross, beam or stake and left to hang until eventual death.
Cube
In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces.
Cumae
Cumae ((Kumē) or Κύμαι or Κύμα; Cuma) was the first ancient Greek colony of Magna Graecia on the mainland of Italy and was founded by settlers from Euboea in the 8th century BC.
Cup
A cup is an open-top container used to hold liquids for pouring or drinking.
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Cutting
Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object, into two or more portions, through the application of an acutely directed force.
Cylinder
A cylinder has traditionally been a three-dimensional solid, one of the most basic of curvilinear geometric shapes.
Dado (architecture)
In architecture, the dado is the lower part of a wall, below the dado rail and above the skirting board.
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Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (also Dan-el Padilla) is an associate professor of classics at Princeton who researches and teaches the Roman Republic and early Empire, as well as classical reception in contemporary American and Latin American cultures.
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Dance
Dance is an art form, often classified as a sport, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected.
Democracy
Democracy (from dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state.
Demon
A demon is a malevolent supernatural entity.
Dentil
A dentil (from Lat. dens, a tooth) is a small block used as a repeating ornament in the bedmould of a cornice.
Dentistry
Dentistry, also known as dental medicine and oral medicine, is the branch of medicine focused on the teeth, gums, and mouth.
Diana (mythology)
Diana is a goddess in Roman and Hellenistic religion, primarily considered a patroness of the countryside and nature, hunters, wildlife, childbirth, crossroads, the night, and the Moon.
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Dimension
In physics and mathematics, the dimension of a mathematical space (or object) is informally defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify any point within it.
Diodorus Siculus
Diodorus Siculus or Diodorus of Sicily (Diódōros; 1st century BC) was an ancient Greek historian.
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Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Διονύσιος ἈλεξάνδρουἉλικαρνασσεύς,; – after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Emperor Augustus.
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Discipline
Discipline is the self-control that is gained by requiring that rules or orders be obeyed, and the ability to keep working at something that is difficult.
Doric order
The Doric order is one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.
Downspout
A downspout, waterspout, downpipe, drain spout, drainpipe, roof drain pipe, or leader is a pipe for carrying rainwater from a rain gutter.
Draped garment
A draped garment (draped dress) is a garment that is made of a single piece of cloth that is draped around the body; drapes are not cut away or stitched as in a tailored garment.
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Drapery
Drapery is a general word referring to cloths or textiles (Old French, from Late Latin). It may refer to cloth used for decorative purposes – such as around windows – or to the trade of retailing cloth, originally mostly for clothing, formerly conducted by drapers.
Drinking
Drinking is the act of ingesting water or other liquids into the body through the mouth, proboscis, or elsewhere.
Eating
Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food.
Economics
Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Egnatia gens
The gens Egnatia was a plebeian family of equestrian rank at ancient Rome.
Elizabeth Robinson
Elizabeth Robinson (born 1961, Denver, Colorado) is an American poet and professor, author of twelve collections of poetry, most recently Counterpart (Ahsahta Press, 2012), "Three Novels" (Omnidawn, 2011) "Also Known A," (Apogee, 2009), and The Orphan and Its Relations (Fence Books, 2008).
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Emma Dench
Emma Dench (born 1963) is an English ancient historian, classicist, and academic administrator.
Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. is the company known for publishing the Encyclopædia Britannica, the world's oldest continuously published encyclopaedia.
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Entertainment
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight.
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Epirote Greek
The Epirote dialect is a variety of Northwest Doric that was spoken in the ancient Greek state of Epirus during the Classical Era.
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Episodic storytelling
Episodic storytelling is a genre of narrative that is divided into a fixed set of episodes.
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Etruria
Etruria was a region of Central Italy delimited by the rivers Arno and Tiber, an area that covered what is now most of Tuscany, northern Lazio, and north-western Umbria.
Etruscan art
Etruscan art was produced by the Etruscan civilization in central Italy between the 10th and 1st centuries BC.
Etruscan civilization
The Etruscan civilization was an ancient civilization created by the Etruscans, a people who inhabited Etruria in ancient Italy, with a common language and culture who formed a federation of city-states.
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Eutropius (historian)
Eutropius (–387) was a Roman official and historian.
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Executive (government)
The executive, also referred to as the juditian or executive power, is that part of government which executes the law; in other words, directly makes decisions and holds power.
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Exile
Exile or banishment, is primarily penal expulsion from one's native country, and secondarily expatriation or prolonged absence from one's homeland under either the compulsion of circumstance or the rigors of some high purpose.
Façade
A façade or facade is generally the front part or exterior of a building.
Famine
A famine is a widespread scarcity of food caused by several possible factors, including, but not limited to war, natural disasters, crop failure, widespread poverty, an economic catastrophe or government policies.
Fastener
A fastener (US English) or fastening (UK English) is a hardware device that mechanically joins or affixes two or more objects together.
Fauces (architecture)
Fauces is an architectural term given by Vitruvius (Arch.) to narrow passages on either side of the tablinum, through which access could be obtained from the atrium to the peristylar court in the rear.
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Feather
Feathers are epidermal growths that form a distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on both avian (bird) and some non-avian dinosaurs and other archosaurs.
Femininity
Femininity (also called womanliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with women and girls.
Fibula (brooch)
A fibula (/ˈfɪbjʊlə/,: fibulae /ˈfɪbjʊli/) is a brooch or pin for fastening garments, typically at the right shoulder.
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Figurative art
Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational.
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Figurine
A figurine (a diminutive form of the word figure) or statuette is a small, three-dimensional sculpture that represents a human, deity or animal, or, in practice, a pair or small group of them.
Financial centre
A financial centre (financial center in American English) or financial hub is a location with a significant concentration of participants in banking, asset management, insurance, and financial markets, with venues and supporting services for these activities to take place.
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Fit model
A fit model (sometimes fitting model) is a person who is used by a fashion designer or clothing manufacturer to check the fit, drape and visual appearance of a design on a 'real' human being, effectively acting as a live mannequin.
Flower
A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae).
Food
Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support.
Footwear refers to garments worn on the feet, which typically serve the purpose of protection against adversities of the environment such as wear from rough ground; stability on slippery ground; and temperature.
Foundation (engineering)
In engineering, a foundation is the element of a structure which connects it to the ground or more rarely, water (as with floating structures), transferring loads from the structure to the ground.
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Fracture
Fracture is the appearance of a crack or complete separation of an object or material into two or more pieces under the action of stress.
Fregellae
Fregellae was an ancient town of Latium adiectum, situated on the Via Latina between Aquinum (modern Aquino) and Frusino (now Frosinone), in central Italy, near the left branch of the Liris.
Frentani
The Frentani were an Italic tribe occupying the tract on the southeast coast of the Italian peninsula from the Apennines to the Adriatic, and from the frontiers of Apulia to those of the Marrucini.
Fresco
Fresco (or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster.
Funeral
A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances.
Gaius Cassius Longinus
Gaius Cassius Longinus (– 3 October 42 BC) was a Roman senator and general best known as a leading instigator of the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar on 15 March 44 BC.
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Gaius Marius (consul 82 BC)
Gaius Marius "the Younger" (– 82 BC) was a Roman republican general and politician who became consul in 82 BC with Gnaeus Papirius Carbo.
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Gaius Papius Mutilus
Gaius Papius Mutilus was a Samnite noble who is best known for being the leader of the southern rebels who fought against the army of Rome in the Social War of 91-87 BC (also known as the Italian War); was member of the clan Variani/Varriano.
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Gaius Pontius
Gaius Pontius (fl. 321 BC), sometimes called Gavius Pontius, was a Samnite commander (clan Varry/Varriani) during the Second Samnite War.
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Gauls
The Gauls (Galli; Γαλάται, Galátai) were a group of Celtic peoples of mainland Europe in the Iron Age and the Roman period (roughly 5th century BC to 5th century AD).
Gellius Egnatius
Gellius Egnatius (died 295 BC) was the leader of the Varriani, a leading clan of the Samnites during the Third Samnite War, which broke out in 298 BC.
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Gemstone
A gemstone (also called a fine gem, jewel, precious stone, semiprecious stone, or simply gem) is a piece of mineral crystal which, when cut or polished, is used to make jewelry or other adornments.
Gender neutrality
Gender neutrality (adjective form: gender-neutral), also known as gender-neutralism or the gender neutrality movement, is the idea that policies, language, and other social institutions (social structures or gender roles) should avoid distinguishing roles according to people's sex or gender.
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Gender role
A gender role, or sex role, is a set of socially accepted behaviors and attitudes deemed appropriate or desirable for individuals based on their sex.
Gens
In ancient Rome, a gens (or,;: gentes) was a family consisting of individuals who shared the same ''nomen gentilicium'' and who claimed descent from a common ancestor.
Geographer
A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts.
Girdle
A belt without a buckle, especially if a cord or rope, is called a girdle in various contexts, especially historical ones, where girdles were a very common part of everyday clothing from antiquity until perhaps the 15th century, especially for women.
Gladiator
A gladiator (gladiator, "swordsman", from gladius, "sword") was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals.
Gloss (optics)
Gloss is an optical property which indicates how well a surface reflects light in a specular (mirror-like) direction.
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Gnaeus Papirius Carbo (consul 85 BC)
Gnaeus Papirius Carbo (– 82 BC) was thrice consul of the Roman Republic in 85, 84, and 82 BC.
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Goat
The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of domesticated goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock.
Graeme Barker
Graeme William Walter Barker, (born 23 October 1946) is a British archaeologist, notable for his work on the Italian Bronze Age, the Roman occupation of Libya, and landscape archaeology.
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Grain
A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit (caryopsis) – with or without an attached hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption.
Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Greeks
The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..
Gymnasium (ancient Greece)
The gymnasium (gymnásion) in Ancient Greece functioned as a training facility for competitors in public games.
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Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village.
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Hammer
A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consisting of a weighted "head" fixed to a long handle that is swung to deliver an impact to a small area of an object.
Hand-to-hand combat
Hand-to-hand combat (sometimes abbreviated as HTH or H2H) is a physical confrontation between two or more persons at short range (grappling distance or within the physical reach of a handheld weapon) that does not involve the use of ranged weapons.
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Hannibal
Hannibal (translit; 247 – between 183 and 181 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.
Hat
A hat is a head covering which is worn for various reasons, including protection against weather conditions, ceremonial reasons such as university graduation, religious reasons, safety, or as a fashion accessory.
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Head injury
A head injury is any injury that results in trauma to the skull or brain.
Healthy diet
A healthy diet is a diet that maintains or improves overall health.
Hearth
A hearth is the place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a horizontal hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos (a low, partial wall behind a hearth), fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
Hegemony
Hegemony is the political, economic, and military predominance of one state over other states, either regional or global.
Hellenistic period
In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year, which eliminated the last major Hellenistic kingdom.
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Herculaneum
Herculaneum was an ancient Roman town, located in the modern-day comune of Ercolano, Campania, Italy.
Herennia gens
The gens Herennia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome.
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Hierarchical proportion
Hierarchical proportion is a technique used in art, mostly in sculpture and painting, in which the artist uses unnatural proportion or scale to depict the relative importance of the figures in the artwork.
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Hillfort
A hillfort is a type of fortified refuge or defended settlement located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage.
Hilt
The hilt (rarely called a haft or shaft) is the handle of a knife, dagger, sword, or bayonet, consisting of a guard, grip, and pommel.
Himation
A himation (ἱμάτιον) was a type of clothing, a mantle or wrap worn by ancient Greek men and women from the Archaic period through the Hellenistic period (BC).
Hip
In vertebrate anatomy, the hip, or coxaLatin coxa was used by Celsus in the sense "hip", but by Pliny the Elder in the sense "hip bone" (Diab, p 77) (coxae) in medical terminology, refers to either an anatomical region or a joint on the outer (lateral) side of the pelvis.
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Hirpini
The Hirpini (Latin: Hirpini) were an ancient Samnite tribe of Southern Italy.
History of Naples
The history of Naples is long and varied, dating to Greek settlements established in the Naples area in the 2nd millennium BC. Samnites and history of Naples are history of Campania.
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Homeland
A homeland is a place where a national or ethnic identity has formed.
Hoplite
Hoplites (hoplîtai) were citizen-soldiers of Ancient Greek city-states who were primarily armed with spears and shields.
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC),Suetonius,. commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."Quintilian 10.1.96.
Horn (anatomy)
A horn is a permanent pointed projection on the head of various animals that consists of a covering of keratin and other proteins surrounding a core of live bone.
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Horse
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal.
House
A house is a single-unit residential building.
Household
A household consists of one or more persons who live in the same dwelling.
Human sexual activity
Human sexual activity, human sexual practice or human sexual behaviour is the manner in which humans experience and express their sexuality.
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Hunting
Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals.
Husband
A husband is a man involved in a marital relationship, commonly referred to as a spouse.
Illyria
In classical and late antiquity, Illyria (Ἰλλυρία, Illyría or Ἰλλυρίς, Illyrís; Illyria, Illyricum) was a region in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula inhabited by numerous tribes of people collectively known as the Illyrians.
Impasto
Impasto is a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface thickly, usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible.
Impluvium
The impluvium (impluvia) is a water-catchment pool system meant to capture rain-water flowing from the compluvium, or slanted roof.
Import
An importer is the receiving country in an export from the sending country.
Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.
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Infant
An infant or baby is the very young offspring of human beings.
Infantry
Infantry is a specialization of military personnel who engage in warfare combat.
Injury
Injury is physiological damage to the living tissue of any organism, whether in humans, in other animals, or in plants.
Iron
Iron is a chemical element.
Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
Isernia
Isernia is a town and comune in the southern Italian region of Molise, and the capital of the province of Isernia.
Italic peoples
The concept of Italic peoples is widely used in linguistics and historiography of ancient Italy.
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
Jacket
A jacket is a garment for the upper body, usually extending below the hips.
Javelin
A javelin is a light spear designed primarily to be thrown, historically as a ranged weapon.
Jesus
Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.
Jewellery
Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks.
Judaea (Roman province)
Judaea (Iudaea; translit) was a Roman province from 6 to 132 AD, which incorporated the Levantine regions of Idumea, Philistia, Judea, Samaria and Galilee, extending over parts of the former regions of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms of Judea.
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Judiciary
The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law in legal cases.
Jug
A jug is a type of container commonly used to hold liquids.
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Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman.
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Julius Pokorny
Julius Pokorny (12 June 1887 – 8 April 1970) was an Austrian-Czech linguist and scholar of the Celtic languages and of Celtic studies, particularly of the Irish language, and a supporter of Irish nationalism.
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Kantharos
A kantharos (κάνθαρος) or cantharus is a type of ancient Greek cup used for drinking.
Krater
A krater or crater (κρᾱτήρ|krātḗr|mixing vessel,; crātēr) was a large two-handled type of vase in Ancient Greek pottery and metalwork, mostly used for the mixing of wine with water.
Kylix
In the pottery of ancient Greece, a kylix (κύλιξ, pl.; also spelled cylix;: kylikes) is the most common type of cup in the period, usually associated with the drinking of wine.
Ladle (spoon)
A ladle is a large, deep spoon, often used in the preparation and serving of soup, stew, or other foods.
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Lamponia gens
The gens Lamponia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome, known from only a few individuals.
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Larino
Larino (Larìnə; Larinum) is a town and comune of approximately 8,100 inhabitants in Molise, province of Campobasso, southern Italy.
Latin League
The Latin League (– 338 BC)Stearns, Peter N. (2001).
Latin literature
Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language.
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Latino-Faliscan languages
The Latino-Faliscan or Latinian languages form a group of the Italic languages within the Indo-European family.
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Latins (Italic tribe)
The Latins (Latin: Latinus (m.), Latina (f.), Latini (m. pl.)), sometimes known as the Latials or Latians, were an Italic tribe which included the early inhabitants of the city of Rome (see Roman people). Samnites and Latins (Italic tribe) are Italic peoples.
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Latium
Latium is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.
Leaf
A leaf (leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis.
Leather
Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay.
Leg
A leg is a weight-bearing and locomotive anatomical structure, usually having a columnar shape.
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Legislation
Legislation is the process or result of enrolling, enacting, or promulgating laws by a legislature, parliament, or analogous governing body.
Legislature
A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city.
Legume
Legumes are plants in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants.
Lesion
A lesion is any damage or abnormal change in the tissue of an organism, usually caused by injury or diseases.
Libation
A libation is a ritual pouring of a liquid as an offering to a deity or spirit, or in memory of the dead.
Liri
The Liri (Latin Liris or Lyris, previously, Clanis; Greek: Λεῖρις) is one of the principal rivers of central Italy, flowing into the Tyrrhenian Sea a little below Minturno under the name Garigliano.
List of ancient Italic peoples
This list of ancient Italic peoples includes names of Indo-European peoples speaking Italic languages or otherwise considered Italic in sources from the late early 1st millennium BC to the early 1st millennium AD. Samnites and list of ancient Italic peoples are Italic peoples.
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List of named alloys
This is a list of named alloys grouped alphabetically by base metal.
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List of screw drives
At a minimum, a screw drive is a set of shaped cavities and protrusions on the screw head that allows torque to be applied to it.
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Livestock
Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.
Livy
Titus Livius (59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy, was a Roman historian.
Locri
Locri is a town and comune (municipality) in the province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy.
Loggia
In architecture, a loggia (usually) is a covered exterior gallery or corridor, usually on an upper level, but sometimes on the ground level of a building.
Lucanians
The Lucanians (Lucani) were an Italic tribe living in Lucania, in what is now southern Italy, who spoke an Oscan language, a member of the Italic languages.
Lyre
The lyre is a stringed musical instrument that is classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as a member of the lute family of instruments.
Mace (bludgeon)
A mace is a blunt weapon, a type of club or virge that uses a heavy head on the end of a handle to deliver powerful strikes.
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Magic (supernatural)
Magic is an ancient practice rooted in rituals, spiritual divinations, and/or cultural lineage—with an intention to invoke, manipulate, or otherwise manifest supernatural forces, beings, or entities in the natural world.
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Magna Graecia
Magna Graecia is a term that was used for the Greek-speaking areas of Southern Italy, in the present-day Italian regions of Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania and Sicily; these regions were extensively populated by Greek settlers starting from the 8th century BC.
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Maniple (military unit)
Maniple (manipulus) was a tactical unit of the Roman Republican armies, adopted during the Samnite Wars (343–290 BC).
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Mantineia
Mantineia (also Mantinea; Μαντίνεια; also Koine Greek Ἀντιγόνεια Antigoneia) was a city in ancient Arcadia, Greece, which was the site of two significant battles in Classical Greek history.
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2)) that have crystallized under the influence of heat and pressure.
Mars (mythology)
In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Mars (Mārs) is the god of war and also an agricultural guardian, a combination characteristic of early Rome.
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Material
A material is a substance or mixture of substances that constitutes an object.
Maturity (psychological)
In psychology, maturity can be operationally defined as the level of psychological functioning (measured through standards like the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) one can attain, after which the level of psychological functioning no longer increases much with age.
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Mefitis
In Roman mythology, Mefitis (or Mephitis; Mefite in Italian) was a minor goddess of the poisonous gases emitted from the ground in swamps and volcanic vapors.
Mercenary
A mercenary, also called a merc, soldier of fortune, or hired gun, is a private individual who joins an armed conflict for personal profit, is otherwise an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of any other official military.
Midriff
In fashion, the midriff is the human abdomen.
Militarism
Militarism is the belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability and to use it aggressively to expand national interests and/or values.
Mill (grinding)
A mill is a device, often a structure, machine or kitchen appliance, that breaks solid materials into smaller pieces by grinding, crushing, or cutting.
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Mint (facility)
A mint is an industrial facility which manufactures coins that can be used as currency.
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Mirror armour
Mirror armour (зерцало,, meaning "mirror"; 护心镜,, meaning "protect-heart mirror"), sometimes referred to as disc armour or as or (چهاﺮآﻳنه meaning "four mirrors"; whence шар-айна), was a type of cuirass used mainly in Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe; including India, Persia, Tibet, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire.
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Mixed economy
A mixed economy is an economic system that accepts both private businesses and nationalized government services, like public utilities, safety, military, welfare, and education.
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Mixed farming
Mixed farming is a type of farming which involves both the growing of crops and the raising of livestock.
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Modular building
A modular building is a prefabricated building that consists of repeated sections called modules.
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Moisture
Moisture is the presence of a liquid, especially water, often in trace amounts.
Molise
Molise (Mulise) is a region of Southern Italy.
Money
Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context.
Motif (visual arts)
In art and iconography, a motif is an element of an image.
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Mountain
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock.
Municipium
In ancient Rome, the Latin term municipium (municipia) referred to a town or city.
Mural
A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate.
Myth
Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.
Nail (fastener)
In woodworking and construction, a nail is a small object made of metal (or wood, called a tree nail or "trunnel") which is used as a fastener, as a peg to hang something, or sometimes as a decoration.
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Naples
Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.
Natural resource
Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications.
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Necklace
A necklace is an article of jewellery that is worn around the neck.
Neckline
The neckline is the top edge of a garment that surrounds the neck, especially from the front view.
Nola
Nola is a town and a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, southern Italy.
North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
Numen
Numen (plural numina) is a Latin term for "divinity", "divine presence", or "divine will".
Odes (Horace)
The Odes (Carmina) are a collection in four books of Latin lyric poems by Horace.
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Olive
The olive, botanical name Olea europaea, meaning 'European olive', is a species of small tree or shrub in the family Oleaceae, found traditionally in the Mediterranean Basin.
Olive oil
Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained by pressing whole olives, the fruit of Olea europaea, a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin, and extracting the oil.
Opus tessellatum
Opus tessellatum is the Latin name for the normal technique of Greek and Roman mosaic, made from tesserae that are larger than about 4 mm.
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Orthostates
In the context of classical Greek architecture, orthostates are squared stone blocks much greater in height than depth that are usually built into the lower portion of a wall.
Oscan language
Oscan is an extinct Indo-European language of southern Italy.
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Osci
The Osci (also called Oscans, Opici, Opsci, Obsci, Opicans) were an Italic people of Campania and Latium adiectum before and during Roman times. Samnites and Osci are history of Campania and Italic peoples.
Osco-Umbrian languages
The Osco-Umbrian, Sabellic or Sabellian languages are an extinct group of Italic languages, the Indo-European languages that were spoken in Central and Southern Italy by the Osco-Umbrians before being replaced by Latin, as the power of Ancient Rome expanded.
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Oval
An oval is a closed curve in a plane which resembles the outline of an egg.
Overpopulation
Overpopulation or overabundance is a phenomenon in which a species' population becomes larger than the carrying capacity of its environment.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Painting
Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support").
Palaestra
A palaestra (or; also (chiefly British) palestra; παλαίστρα.) was any site of an ancient Greek wrestling school.
Papia gens
The gens Papia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome.
Parenting
Parenting or child rearing promotes and supports the physical, emotional, social, spiritual and cognitive development of a child from infancy to adulthood.
Pastoralism
Pastoralism is a form of animal husbandry where domesticated animals (known as "livestock") are released onto large vegetated outdoor lands (pastures) for grazing, historically by nomadic people who moved around with their herds.
Pasture
Pasture (from the Latin pastus, past participle of pascere, "to feed") is land used for grazing.
Pattern hair loss
Pattern hair loss (also known as androgenetic alopecia (AGA)) is a hair loss condition that primarily affects the top and front of the scalp.
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Peace treaty
A peace treaty is an agreement between two or more hostile parties, usually countries or governments, which formally ends a state of war between the parties.
Penna Sant'Andrea
Penna Sant'Andrea (Abruzzese: La Pònnë) is a town and comune in the province of Teramo in the Abruzzo region of south-eastern Italy.
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Pentri
The Pentri were a tribe of the Samnites, and apparently one of the most important of the subdivisions of that nation.
Peplos
A peplos (ὁ πέπλος) is a body-length garment established as typical attire for women in ancient Greece by, during the late Archaic and Classical period.
Peristyle
In ancient Greek and Roman architecture, a peristyle (from Greek περίστυλον) is a continuous porch formed by a row of columns surrounding the perimeter of a building or a courtyard.
Phalanx
The phalanx (phalanxes or phalanges) was a rectangular mass military formation, usually composed entirely of heavy infantry armed with spears, pikes, sarissas, or similar polearms tightly packed together.
Philistia
Philistia (Koine Greek (LXX): Γῆ τῶν Φυλιστιείμ, romanized: gê tôn Phulistieím) was a confederation of five main cities or pentapolis in the Southwest Levant, made up of principally Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, and Gath, and for a time, Jaffa (present-day part of Tel Aviv).
Philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.
Picentes
The Picentes or Piceni or Picentini were an ancient Italic people who lived from the 9th to the 3rd century BC in the area between the Foglia and Aterno rivers, bordered to the west by the Apennines and to the east by the Adriatic coast. Samnites and Picentes are ancient Abruzzo and Italic peoples.
Pietrabbondante
Pietrabbondante is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Isernia in the Italian region Molise, located about northwest of Campobasso and about northeast of Isernia.
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Pig
The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal.
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Pigment
A pigment is a powder used to add color or change visual appearance.
Pileus (hat)
The pileus (πῖλος, pîlos; also pilleus or pilleum in Latin) was a brimless felt cap worn in Ancient Greece, Etruria, Illyria (especially Pannonia), later also introduced in Ancient Rome.
Plaster
Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements.
Plato
Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.
Plume (feather)
A plume is a special type of bird feather, possessed by egrets, ostriches, birds of paradise, quetzals, pheasants, peacocks and quails.
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Politics
Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.
Polity
A polity is a group of people with a collective identity, who are organized by some form of political institutionalized social relations, and have a capacity to mobilize resources.
Polybius
Polybius (Πολύβιος) was a Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period.
Polychrome
Polychrome is the "practice of decorating architectural elements, sculpture, etc., in a variety of colors." The term is used to refer to certain styles of architecture, pottery, or sculpture in multiple colors.
Pomegranate
The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub in the family Lythraceae, subfamily Punicoideae, that grows between tall.
Pompeian Styles
The Pompeian Styles are four periods which are distinguished in ancient Roman mural painting.
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Pompeii
Pompeii was an ancient city in what is now the comune (municipality) of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy.
Pontecagnano Faiano
Pontecagnano Faiano (also known simply as Pontecagnano) is a town and comune of the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-west Italy.
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Pontius Pilate
Pontius Pilate (Póntios Pilátos) was the fifth governor of the Roman province of Judaea, serving under Emperor Tiberius from 26/27 to 36/37 AD.
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Pontius Telesinus
Pontius Telesinus (died 2 November 82 BC) was the last independent leader of the Italic Samnites before their annexation by the Roman Republic.
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Pope
The pope (papa, from lit) is the bishop of Rome and the visible head of the worldwide Catholic Church.
Pope Felix IV
Pope Felix IV (489/490 – 22 September 530) was the bishop of Rome from 12 July 526 to his death.
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Population growth
Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group.
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Portico
A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.
Pottery
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form.
Poultry
Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of harvesting animal products such as meat, eggs or feathers.
Power (social and political)
In political science, power is the social production of an effect that determines the capacities, actions, beliefs, or conduct of actors.
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Prayer
Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship through deliberate communication.
Precognition
Precognition (from the Latin prae- 'before', and cognitio 'acquiring knowledge') is the purported psychic phenomenon of seeing, or otherwise becoming directly aware of, events in the future.
Prefect
Prefect (from the Latin praefectus, substantive adjectival form of praeficere: "put in front", meaning in charge) is a magisterial title of varying definition, but essentially refers to the leader of an administrative area.
Preventive healthcare
Preventive healthcare, or prophylaxis, is the application of healthcare measures to prevent diseases.
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Priest
A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities.
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.
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Profession
A profession is a field of work that has been successfully professionalized.
Projectile
A projectile is an object that is propelled by the application of an external force and then moves freely under the influence of gravity and air resistance.
Propaganda
Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented.
Prostitution
Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.
Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.
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Pyramid
A pyramid is a structure whose visible surfaces are triangular in broad outline and converge toward the top, making the appearance roughly a pyramid in the geometric sense.
Pyrrhic War
The Pyrrhic War (280–275 BC) was largely fought between the Roman Republic and Pyrrhus, the king of Epirus, who had been asked by the people of the Greek city of Tarentum in southern Italy to help them in their war against the Romans.
Pyrrhus of Epirus
Pyrrhus (Πύρρος; 319/318–272 BC) was a Greek king and statesman of the Hellenistic period.
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Random House
Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.
Recreation
Recreation is an activity of leisure, leisure being discretionary time.
Republic (Plato)
The Republic (Politeia) is a Socratic dialogue, authored by Plato around 375 BC, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man.
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Resource
Resource refers to all the materials available in our environment which are technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally sustainable and help us to satisfy our needs and wants.
Restaurant
A restaurant is a business that prepares and serves food and drinks to customers.
Rhodes
Rhodes (translit) is the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece and is their historical capital; it is the ninth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
Ring (jewellery)
A ring is a round band, usually made of metal, worn as ornamental jewelry.
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Rite of passage
A rite of passage is a ceremony or ritual of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another.
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Rivet
A rivet is a permanent mechanical fastener.
Roman art
The art of Ancient Rome, and the territories of its Republic and later Empire, includes architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work.
Roman Baths (Bath)
The Roman Baths are well-preserved thermae in the city of Bath, Somerset, England.
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Roman citizenship
Citizenship in ancient Rome (civitas) was a privileged political and legal status afforded to free individuals with respect to laws, property, and governance.
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Roman dictator
A Roman dictator was an extraordinary magistrate in the Roman Republic endowed with full authority to resolve some specific problem to which he had been assigned.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Roman Forum
The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum (Foro Romano), is a rectangular forum (plaza) surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the centre of the city of Rome.
Roman Republic
The Roman Republic (Res publica Romana) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium.
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Roman Senate
The Roman Senate (Senātus Rōmānus) was the highest and constituting assembly of ancient Rome and its aristocracy.
Romanization (cultural)
Romanization or Latinization (Romanisation or Latinisation), in the historical and cultural meanings of both terms, indicate different historical processes, such as acculturation, integration and assimilation of newly incorporated and peripheral populations by the Roman Republic and the later Roman Empire.
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Root (linguistics)
A root (or root word or radical) is the core of a word that is irreducible into more meaningful elements.
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Round shield
A round shield can refer to any type of hand-held shield that has a round shape.
Rubble
Rubble is broken stone, of irregular size, shape and texture; undressed especially as a filling-in.
Rural area
In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.
Sabellians
Sabellians is a collective ethnonym for a group of Italic peoples or tribes inhabiting central and southern Italy at the time of the rise of Rome. Samnites and Sabellians are Italic peoples.
Sabines
The Sabines (Sabini; Sabini—all exonyms) were an Italic people who lived in the central Apennine Mountains (see Sabina) of the ancient Italian Peninsula, also inhabiting Latium north of the Anio before the founding of Rome. Samnites and Sabines are ancient Abruzzo and Italic peoples.
Sacrifice
Sacrifice is the offering of material possessions or the lives of animals or humans to a deity as an act of propitiation or worship.
Saepinum
Saepinum (modern Altilia, near Sepino) was a Samnite town that later became a Roman municipium.
Samnite (gladiator type)
A Samnite (Latin Samnis, plural Samnites) was a Roman gladiator who fought with equipment styled on that of a warrior from Samnium: a short sword (gladius), a rectangular shield (scutum), a greave (ocrea), and a helmet.
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Samnite Wars
The First, Second, and Third Samnite Wars (343–341 BC, 326–304 BC, and 298–290 BC) were fought between the Roman Republic and the Samnites, who lived on a stretch of the Apennine Mountains south of Rome and north of the Lucanian tribe.
Samnium
Samnium (Sannio) is a Latin exonym for a region of Southern Italy anciently inhabited by the Samnites.
Sanctuary
A sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred place, such as a shrine.
Satyr
In Greek mythology, a satyr (σάτυρος|sátyros), also known as a silenus or silenos (σειληνός|seilēnós), and sileni (plural), is a male nature spirit with ears and a tail resembling those of a horse, as well as a permanent, exaggerated erection.
Scutum
The scutum (scuta) was a type of shield used among Italic peoples in antiquity, most notably by the army of ancient Rome starting about the fourth century BC.
Seal (emblem)
A seal is a device for making an impression in wax, clay, paper, or some other medium, including an embossment on paper, and is also the impression thus made.
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Second Punic War
The Second Punic War (218 to 201 BC) was the second of three wars fought between Carthage and Rome, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC.
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Semnones
The Semnones were a Germanic and specifically a Suebi people, who were settled between the Elbe and the Oder in the 1st century when they were described by Tacitus in Germania: "The Semnones give themselves out to be the most ancient and renowned branch of the Suebi.
Senones
The Senones or Senonii (Gaulish: "the ancient ones") were an ancient Gallic tribe dwelling in the Seine basin, around present-day Sens, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
Serbs
The Serbs (Srbi) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to Southeastern Europe who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history, and language.
Sewing
Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a sewing needle and thread.
Sex
Sex is the biological trait that determines whether a sexually reproducing organism produces male or female gametes.
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Sheep
Sheep (sheep) or domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.
Sheep farming
Sheep farming or sheep husbandry is the raising and breeding of domestic sheep.
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Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
Signature
A signature (from signare, "to sign") is a handwritten (and often stylized) depiction of someone's name, nickname, or even a simple "X" or other mark that a person writes on documents as a proof of identity and intent.
Silius Italicus
Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (c. 26 – c. 101 AD) was a Roman senator, orator and epic poet of the Silver Age of Latin literature.
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Silver
Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.
Skeleton
A skeleton is the structural frame that supports the body of most animals.
Skirt
A skirt is the lower part of a dress or a separate outer garment that covers a person from the waist downwards.
Sleeve
A sleeve (slīef, a word allied to slip, cf. Dutch sloof) is the part of a garment that covers the arm, or through which the arm passes or slips.
Smallholding
A smallholding or smallholder is a small farm operating under a small-scale agriculture model.
Snake
Snakes are elongated, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.
A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors.
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Social status is the relative level of social value a person is considered to possess.
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Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political).
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The Social War (from Latin bellum sociale, "war of the allies"), also called the Italian War or the Marsic War, was fought largely from 91 to 88 BC between the Roman Republic and several of its autonomous allies (socii) in Italy.
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Soil fertility
Soil fertility refers to the ability of soil to sustain agricultural plant growth, i.e. to provide plant habitat and result in sustained and consistent yields of high quality.
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Sorbs
Sorbs (Serbja, Serby, Sorben, Lužičtí Srbové, Serbołużyczanie; also known as Lusatians, Lusatian Serbs and Wends) are a West Slavic ethnic group predominantly inhabiting the parts of Lusatia located in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg.
Sparta
Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece.
Spear
A spear is a polearm consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head.
Sport
Sport is a form of physical activity or game.
Staia gens
The gens Staia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome.
Star
A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity.
Statia gens
The gens Statia was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome.
Statius Gellius
Statius Gellius (fl. 305 BC) was a Samnite general who fought against the Romans, in the Second Samnite War.
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Status symbol
A status symbol is a visible, external symbol of one's social position, an indicator of economic or social status.
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Stitch (textile arts)
In the textile arts, a stitch is a single turn or loop of thread, or yarn.
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Stoa
A stoa (plural, stoas,"stoa", Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Ed., 1989 stoai, or stoae), in ancient Greek architecture, is a covered walkway or portico, commonly for public use.
Strabo
StraboStrabo (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed.
Strap
A strap, sometimes also called strop, is an elongated flap or ribbon, usually of leather or other flexible materials.
Stucco
Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water.
Style (visual arts)
In the visual arts, style is a "...
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Subsistence agriculture
Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings.
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Suebi
The Suebi (also spelled Suevi) or Suebians were a large group of Germanic peoples originally from the Elbe river region in what is now Germany and the Czech Republic.
Sulla
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (138–78 BC), commonly known as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman.
Sulla's civil war
The Sulla's civil war was fought between the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla and his opponents, the Cinna-Marius faction (usually called the Marians or the Cinnans after their former leaders Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Cinna), in the years 83–82 BC.
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Summer
Summer is the hottest and brightest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn.
Superstition
A superstition is any belief or practice considered by non-practitioners to be irrational or supernatural, attributed to fate or magic, perceived supernatural influence, or fear of that which is unknown.
Swedes (tribe)
The Swedes (svear; Old Norse: svíar; probably from the PIE reflexive pronominal root *s(w)e, "one's own ";Bandle, Oskar. 2002. The Nordic languages: an international handbook of the history of the North Germanic languages. 2002. P.391 Swēon) were a North Germanic tribe who inhabited Svealand ("land of the Swedes") in central Sweden and one of the progenitor groups of modern Swedes, along with Geats and Gutes.
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Sword
A sword is an edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting.
Symbolism (arts)
Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism.
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Symposium
In Ancient Greece, the symposium (συμπόσιον, sympósion or symposio, from συμπίνειν, sympínein, "to drink together") was the part of a banquet that took place after the meal, when drinking for pleasure was accompanied by music, dancing, recitals, or conversation.
Taberna
A taberna (tabernae) was a type of shop or stall in Ancient Rome.
Talisman
A talisman is any object ascribed with religious or magical powers intended to protect, heal, or harm individuals for whom they are made.
Taranto
Taranto (Tarde) is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy.
Temperature
Temperature is a physical quantity that quantitatively expresses the attribute of hotness or coldness.
Temple
A temple (from the Latin templum) is a place of worship, a building used for spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice.
Terraced house
A terrace, terraced house (UK), or townhouse (US) is a kind of medium-density housing that first started in 16th century Europe with a row of joined houses sharing side walls.
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Terracotta
Terracotta, also known as terra cotta or terra-cotta, is a clay-based non-vitreous ceramicOED, "Terracotta";, MFA Boston, "Cameo" database fired at relatively low temperatures.
Tessera
A tessera (plural: tesserae, diminutive tessella) is an individual tile, usually formed in the shape of a square, used in creating a mosaic.
Textile
Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, different fabric types, etc.
Thermal treatment
Thermal treatment is any waste treatment technology that involves high temperatures in the processing of the waste feedstock.
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Thorax
The thorax (thoraces or thoraxes) or chest is a part of the anatomy of mammals and other tetrapod animals located between the neck and the abdomen.
Threshing floor
Threshing (thrashing) was originally "to tramp or stamp heavily with the feet" and was later applied to the act of separating out grain by the feet of people or oxen and still later with the use of a flail.
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Trade
Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money.
Trademark
A trademark (also written trade mark or trade-mark) is a type of intellectual property consisting of a recognizable sign, design, or expression that identifies a product or service from a particular source and distinguishes it from others.
Transhumance
Transhumance is a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures.
Tribal chief
A tribal chief, chieftain, or headman is the leader of a tribal society or chiefdom.
Triple-disc cuirass
The triple-disc cuirass was a type of bronze cuirass used in Southern Italy during the fifth and fourth centuries BC.
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Trophy
A trophy is a tangible, durable reminder of a specific achievement, serving as recognition or evidence of merit.
Tufa
Tufa is a variety of limestone formed when carbonate minerals precipitate out of water in unheated rivers or lakes.
Tuff
Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption.
Tunic
A tunic is a garment for the body, usually simple in style, reaching from the shoulders to a length somewhere between the hips and the ankles.
Umbri
The Umbri were an Italic people of ancient Italy. Samnites and Umbri are Italic peoples.
Umbria
Umbria is a region of central Italy.
University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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University of Oklahoma Press
The University of Oklahoma Press (OU Press) is the publishing arm of the University of Oklahoma.
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Urban planning
Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning in specific contexts, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks, and their accessibility.
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Varnish
Varnish is a clear transparent hard protective coating or film.
Veil
A veil is an article of clothing or hanging cloth that is intended to cover some part of the head or face, or an object of some significance.
Venafrum
Venafrum was an ancient town of Molise, Italy, close to the boundaries of both Latium adiectum and Samnium.
Ver sacrum
Ver sacrum ("sacred spring") is a religious practice of ancient Italic peoples, especially the Sabelli (or Sabini) and their offshoot Samnites, concerning the deduction of colonies.
Vestini
Vestini were an Italic tribe who occupied the area of the modern Abruzzo (central Italy), included between the Gran Sasso and the northern bank of the Aterno river. Samnites and Vestini are ancient Abruzzo and Italic peoples.
Vibia gens
The gens Vibia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome.
Vine
A vine is any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent (that is, climbing) stems, lianas, or runners.
Virginity
Virginity is the state of a person who has never engaged in sexual intercourse.
Volsci
The Volsci were an Italic tribe, well known in the history of the first century of the Roman Republic. Samnites and Volsci are Italic peoples.
Volturno
The Volturno (ancient Latin name Volturnus, from volvere, to roll) is a river in south-central Italy.
Votive offering
A votive offering or votive deposit is one or more objects displayed or deposited, without the intention of recovery or use, in a sacred place for religious purposes.
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Votum
In ancient Roman religion, a votum, plural vota, is a vow or promise made to a deity.
Vulcan (mythology)
Vulcan (Vulcanus, in archaically retained spelling also Volcanus, both pronounced) is the god of fire including the fire of volcanoes, deserts, metalworking and the forge in ancient Roman religion and myth.
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Walling
Walling is a method of torture used by the CIA in which a person's neck is encircled by a collar, and is then used to slam the person against a wall.
Warrior
A warrior is a guardian specializing in combat or warfare, especially within the context of a tribal or clan-based warrior culture society that recognizes a separate warrior aristocracy, class, or caste.
Warrior of Capestrano
The Warrior of Capestrano is a tall limestone statue of a Picene warrior, dated to around the 6th century BC. Samnites and warrior of Capestrano are ancient Abruzzo.
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Wealth
Wealth is the abundance of valuable financial assets or physical possessions which can be converted into a form that can be used for transactions.
Weaving
Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.
Weight
In science and engineering, the weight of an object, is the force acting on the object due to acceleration of gravity.
Wife
A wife (wives) is a woman in a marital relationship.
Wine
Wine is an alcoholic drink made from fermented fruit.
Winter
Winter is the coldest and darkest season of the year in polar and temperate climates.
Wolf
The wolf (Canis lupus;: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America.
Woodpecker
Woodpeckers are part of the bird family Picidae, which also includes the piculets, wrynecks and sapsuckers.
Wool
Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids.
Work (human activity)
Work or labour (or labor in American English) is the intentional activity people perform to support the needs and wants of themselves, others, or a wider community.
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Workshop
Beginning with the Industrial Revolution era, a workshop may be a room, rooms or building which provides both the area and tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods.
Young adult
In medicine and the social sciences, a young adult is generally a person in the years following adolescence, sometimes with some overlap.
Youth
Youth is the time of life when one is young.
4th century BC
The 4th century BCE started the first day of 400 BC and ended the last day of 301 BC.
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5th century
The 5th century is the time period from AD 401 (represented by the Roman numerals CDI) through AD 500 (D) in accordance with the Julian calendar.
5th century BC
The 5th century BC started the first day of 500 BC and ended the last day of 401 BC.
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See also
Ancient Abruzzo
- Aequi
- Algidum
- Marrucini
- Marsi
- Ortona, Latium
- Picentes
- Picenum
- Praetutii
- Sabines
- Samnites
- Vestini
- Warrior of Capestrano
History of Campania
- 1456 Central Italy earthquakes
- 1688 Sannio earthquake
- 1732 Irpinia earthquake
- 1857 Basilicata earthquake
- 2017 Ischia earthquake
- Ancient Campania
- Aurunca
- Campanian Ignimbrite eruption
- Duchy of Amalfi
- Gaudo culture
- History of Capri
- History of Naples
- History of Salerno
- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
- Ksour Essef cuirass
- List of earthquakes in Irpinia
- Lucania
- Ofilius Calavius
- Osci
- Ovius and Novius Calavius
- Samnites
- Sinuessa
- Witches of Benevento
Italic peoples
- Aequi
- Alban people
- Ancient Romans
- Aurunci
- Ausones
- Falisci
- Hernici
- Italic culture
- Italic peoples
- Latins
- Latins (Italic tribe)
- List of ancient Italic peoples
- Marrucini
- Marsi
- Oenotrians
- Osci
- Paeligni
- Picentes
- Praetutii
- Romance peoples
- Sabellians
- Sabines
- Samnites
- Sidicini
- Umbri
- Vestini
- Volsci
References
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