Questions tagged [ancient-rome]
for questions about claims based in Ancient Rome, or limited in Ancient Rome.
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Did Julius Caesar say "If you can't defeat your enemy, have him as your friend"?
In my country (Italy) there's a popular saying that goes "Se non puoi sconfiggere il tuo nemico, fattelo amico", translated to english as "If you can't defeat your enemy, have him as ...
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Did the Roman army have more servants than soldiers?
In one of his essays Joel Spolsky (co-founder of Stack Exchange) wrote:
[...] the Roman army had a ratio of four
servants for every soldier.
Is this true?
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Did Emperor Nero burn Frankincense equal to Oman's annual production at his wife's funeral?
In a documentary about Oman -The Paradoxical Life In Muscat - Magnificent Megacities it is narrated that -
According to the legend, Emperor Nero burned the whole of Oman's annual production ...
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Did Ancient Roman bureaucrats file data only by year?
In an aside in an article about the greatest human innovations where he proposes the relational database as a candidate, Tim Worstall quotes the following comment about the Roman Empire:
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