Tag Archives: Claudius

Seneca in Exile

Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65), Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a (very rich) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist. He was born in Cordoba in Hispania, and raised in Rome, where he was trained in rhetoric and philosophy (mostly with teachers from the short-lived School of the Sextii, which combined Stoicism with

Written on February 27, 2022 at 1:26 pm, by Sean Kelly

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Categories: People, Philosophers

Tags: Claudius, Nero, Seneca the Younger, Seneca's Consolations, Stoicism

The Mysterious Etruscan Language

Written by Edward Whelan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom The Etruscan civilization was a crucial influence on the development of the Romans. For example, they influenced their social practices such as the Triumph and Gladiators and even their religion. The Etruscan language was also an influence on the development of Latin. However, we are still not

Written on June 24, 2020 at 8:02 am, by Whelan

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Categories: History

Tags: Claudius, Early Rome, Emperor claudius, Etruscan, Etruscan art, Etruscans, Language, latin, mystery of the Etruscans, Roman Civilization

Give Me My Eagles Back, Give Me My Regiments Back Again!

By Benjamin Welton, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom The great British novelist, poet, and World War I veteran Robert Graves created one of the most agonizing scenes in fiction when, in his 1934 novel I, Claudius, he portrays a grieving Emperor Augustus crying to the ghost of his general Publius Quinctilius Varus: “Varus, Varus / Give

Written on July 12, 2019 at 9:08 am, by Benjamin Welton

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Categories: Wars

Tags: 9AD, Battlefied of Arminius and Varus, Caesar, Claudius, Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Germania, I, Robert Graves, The Gallic War, the Teutoburg Forest

The tainted glory of the gladiator

By Ben Potter The sun rises high over Rome’s Amphitheatrum Flavium, the mightiest arena in the world. Only the colossal statue of Nero, which one-day will lend the stadium its eternal pseudonym, dwarfs it. The 50,000 strong crowd of men and women, young and old, rich and poor, are tightly coiled; one giant organism ready

Written on June 27, 2018 at 8:14 am, by plato

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Categories: Traditions

Tags: Ancient Rome, arenarii, Caligula, Claudius, Commodus, gladiator, gladius, Hadrian, Spartacus

The Golden Rule

By Ben Potter All that glitters may not be gold, but that hasn’t stopped the shiny yellow stuff from being relentlessly pursued throughout mankind’s civilized existence. Twinkling goodness aside, gold has the virtue of being malleable, ductile, resistant to tarnishing, abundant, easily extracted and, above all else, useless! Well, perhaps not totally, but it is

Written on March 6, 2015 at 10:04 pm, by plato

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Categories: Economics

Tags: Ancient Rome, Caesar, Claudius, Gold, Minoans, Nero, Priam's treasure, Sumerians, Tory