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Timeblazers. Episode 19, Ancient history : the Romans
An enlightening and entertaining series in which timeblazing heroes, Sam (Mike Ackerman), Jen (Heidi Leigh), Shakira (Jasmine Richards), and Alex (Stephen Joffe), travel back in time and embark on a string of exciting escapades, meeting notable people and witnessing significant events throughout history. What civilization is no longer around us but what they did is all around us? Timeblazers Jen and Sam travel back in time with Alex to ancient Rome to help him solve this riddle. He learns about ancient gods, legends, the Roman Empire, aqueducts and the Coliseum.
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Timeblazers. Episode 18, Wonders of the Maya : from temples to hot chocolate
An enlightening and entertaining series in which timeblazing heroes, Sam (Mike Ackerman), Jen (Heidi Leigh), Shakira (Jasmine Richards), and Alex (Stephen Joffe), travel back in time and embark on a string of exciting escapades, meeting notable people and witnessing significant events throughout history. Alex has an idea to set up a hot chocolate stand to make some extra money. Because the hot chocolate at the store is expensive, he figures he can make it from scratch. This is a cue for Timeblazers Jen and Sam to clue Alex in on the discovery of chocolate from the cocoa bean, which dates back to the 1490s in Central America, and to introduce him to the ancient Mayan civilization.
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A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities
The ancient Romans have left us far more information about themselves than has any other Western society until much more recent times. This text is a collection of odd facts and opinions, carefully gleaned from the wide body of evidence left to us by the Romans themselves.
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Great Ancient Egypt Projects
From reed boats, papyrus, and amulets, to pyramids, pharaohs, and mummies, Great Ancient Egypt Projects You Can Build Yourself explores the fascinating lives of ancient Egyptians through more than 25 hands-on building projects and activities. Great Ancient Egypt Projects You Can Build Yourself gives readers today a chance to experience how the ancient Egyptians lived, cooked, worked, worshipped, entertained themselves, and interacted with their neighbors through building projects that use common household supplies. Detailed step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and templates for creating each project are combined with historical facts and anecdotes, biographies, and trivia for the real-life models of each project. Together they give kids a first-hand look at daily life in ancient Egypt.
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A Year in the Life of Ancient Egypt
An overview of daily life in ancient Egypt, its society, and culture.Based on years of prestigious academic work, Professor Rosalie David cleverly presents every aspect of life in ancient Egypt through the lives of various characters, all based on mummies from the Manchester Museum whom Professor Rosalie David has led the study of.
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Ammianus versus Libanius on Barbatio’s Alleged Bridge Across the Rhine
Woods discusses J. Drinkwater's recent explanation of the destruction of the pontoon bridge which the magister peditum Barbatio apparently built over the Rhine as part of a coordinated attack by himself and Julius Caesar upon the Alamanni in 357. Drinkwater correctly highlights the difficulties posed by the description of events, that, among other things, it would have been difficult for the Alamanni to perform the necessary heavy and noisy labor undetected, that the bridge should have been easy to protect with a simple rope or chain boom, and that the river would have been so slow and shallow at this time of the year. Unfortunately, Drinkwater's explanation for the destruction of the bridge poses more problems than it solves. One problem is that it does not meet one of his own objections to the traditional consensus, that the river would have been too slow moving to impart much speed or force to the trunks floating in it. From this perspective, it is simply irrelevant whether they were deliberately steered against the boats supporting the bridge or hit them accidentally.
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THE KNOT AND THE HYMEN: A RECONSIDERATION OF NODUS VIRGINITATIS (HIST. APOLL. 1)
The controversy concerning the origins of the expression nodus virginitatis reflects the long debate over the nature and history of the text in which this phrase is exclusively attested. Although scholars agree that the \"Historia Apollonii regis Tyri\" is based on a lost fictional narrative, there is no consensus about the place of origin, the character, the length or the language of that original.
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Thucydides and the Massacre at Mycalessus
Quinn examines the way in which one fifth-century historian, Thucydides, described a massacre that took place in 413 BC during the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides focuses on the killing of children and gives a grim picture of people being slaughtered like animals, which leaves a clear impression of condemnation on his part.
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