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A History Written to Be Believed

Roman Empire Times 14 Dec 2025
Rome had conquered the Mediterranean, but it had not yet mastered its own story ... Dionysius, son of Alexander, was born at Halicarnassus sometime before 55 BCE ... Photo credits ... Public domain ... Elsewhere he refers to Varro and additional Roman historians ... .
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Flavors Rome Never Forgot

Roman Empire Times 06 Dec 2025
Cato and Varro give recipes for globi, round preparations of cheese, flour, honey, poppy seed, and oil ... Varro mentions circuli and thrion, while Athenaeus cites several unnamed sweets.
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The Empire Below the Surface

Roman Empire Times 03 Dec 2025
Varro records that before the term dolium, an older word, calpar, was used for a wine vessel; calpar derived from the Greek kalpis, a vessel for sacrificial wine and associated with “new wine.”.
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Behind Rome’s Prosperity: A Guide Not a Myth

Roman Empire Times 02 Dec 2025
Rome’s prosperity didn’t emerge from legend or luck ... and died in A.D ... Because there was no concept of copyright in antiquity, Columella freely takes over material he finds useful from earlier Roman authorities such as Cato and Varro ... S.
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Incense in Ancient Rome: Smoke, Ritual, and Power

Roman Empire Times 04 Oct 2025
Credits ... Terminology mattered ... Credits ... B ... Varro’s language in De Lingua Latina for daily cult and Cicero’s references in De Legibus to household Lares assume a repertoire in which incense signaled reverence and marked thresholds ... Credits ... C.
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The Elderly in Ancient Rome: Voices of Respect and Fear

Roman Empire Times 27 Sep 2025
Censorinus, in the third century CE, preserved a Roman scheme of five ages, aligning Varro’s fourfold division of Rome’s history with the onset of senectus at sixty.
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