11) Quirinus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Rome, associated with Jupiter and Mars. In the late republic he was identified with Romulus, legendary founder of Rome....
12) Alba Longa. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...powerful in Latium. Legend says that it was founded by Ascanius, son of Aeneas, and that Romulus and Remus were born there, thus making it the mother city of Rome....
13) Durrenmatt, Friedrich. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...His plays include the tragic farce Der Besuch der alten Dame (1956, tr. The Visit, 1958), Romulus der Grosse (1949; adapted by Gore Vidal as Romulus, 1962), and the...
14) Odoacer. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...the Roman general Orestes at Piacenza, took Ravenna (the West Roman capital), and deposed Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor of the West (until the coronation...
15) Mars, in Roman religion and mythology. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth
Edition. 2001
...identified with the Greek Ares) he was primarily associated with war. Mars was the father of Romulus, the founder of the Roman nation, and, next to Jupiter, he enjoyed...
16) Sabines. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Rome (the story of the rape of the Sabine women to supply wives for the womanless followers of Romulus is a legend explaining this fact); many Roman religious practices...
17) Berekhiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
2001
...collection Ysopet of Marie de France (c.1170), from the now lost Latin translation of Aesop, Romulus, and from several Middle Eastern sources. His Sefer Mazref (tr....
18) biography. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...The Parallel Lives (2d cent. A.D.). His method was comparative, e.g., Theseus is matched with Romulus; Demosthenes with Cicero. In his conclusions, he evaluates the...
19) Rome, city, Italy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...hamlets about the Palatine into a city-state. Tradition tells of the founding of Rome by Romulus in 753 B.C. (hence the dating ab urbe condita, or AUC, i.e., from...
20) Italy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Visigoths, the Huns, and the Germanic Heruli and Ostrogoths. The deposition (476) of Romulus Augustulus, the last Roman emperor of the West, and the assumption by...
|
