A good start in life Like many Roman writers, Ovid was born outside Rome, to a respectable equestrian family who were wealthy enough to send him and his brother to school in Rome. His father ...

among other writers. Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including one depicting Artemis, the Greek goddess of wild animals, in Sicily. Statues of ...

The sole source for the existence and location of these tribes are Roman writers who visited Britain. One of the best observers of the tribes of Celtic Britain was Tacitus who wrote on historical ...

The Roman writer Tacitus observed: ‘It is rare that two or more British tribes will come together to repel a common danger. They fight separately and separately are defeated.’ To celebrate his ...