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Hace 4 días · Nowadays a popular name for wealth management services and the inspiration for a cryptocurrency, Plutus is the ancient Greek God of Wealth and Money. Because of the way his name is spelled in English, he is (without surprise) frequently confused with Pluto, the Roman God of the Underworld (Hades) *. To be clear, the two gods are separate.
Hace 2 días · Boethius was born in Rome a few years after the forced abdication of the last Western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus. A member of the Anicii family, he was orphaned following the family's sudden decline and was raised by Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus, a later consul.
Hace 2 días · Both his adoptive surname, Caesar, and his title Augustus became the permanent titles of the rulers of the Roman Empire for fourteen centuries after his death, in use both at Old Rome and at New Rome.
Hace 2 días · When he arrived in Rome, on 28 or 29 March, the Senate conferred on him the "right and power to decide on all affairs". In a single day, the 25-year-old Caligula, though virtually unknown in Rome's political life, was thus granted the same trappings, authority and powers that Augustus had accumulated over a lifetime.
Hace 5 días · Roman Abramovich & family. Roman Abramovich, who owns stakes in Russian steel giant Evraz and nickel producer Norilsk Nickel, has been sanctioned by the U.K., EU, Canada, Australia and...
Hace 5 días · Although the situation of the popes from the 6th to the 15th century was often precarious, Rome knew glory as the fountainhead of Christianity and eventually won back its power and wealth and reestablished itself as a place of beauty, a source of learning, and a capital of the arts. Rome: Colosseum.
Hace 5 días · The more than 300 monumental fountains are an essential part of Rome’s seductive powers. Part of the everyday yet part of the daily surprise, they are points of personal, often sentimental attachment to the city. The Roman composer Ottorino Resphigi found in them inspiration for his orchestral tone poem Fontane di Roma (1917).
