Vahşi hayvanların bir güç gösterisi bağlamında ve bu amaç için belirlenmiş özel alanlarda sergilenmesi avlanması hususunda ilk teşkil etmemekle birlikte Romalılar, diğer tüm antik uygarlıkları gölgede bırakan vahşi hayvan tüketimi ortaya koymuşlardır. Bu tüketim, geride bıraktığı katliamının çarpıcı boyutları itibarıyla uygarlıklardan ayrılmaktadır. Romalıların propaganda amacıyla gerçekleştird...

Questions are not infrequently asked about the meaning of the motto displayed on the College Arms. When a translation is offered--usually along the lines of 'It is forbidden to be cruel'--there is often puzzlement about why a College of Physicians should have chosen such a phrase to embody its aims and aspirations. In this essay I discuss the motto's relations to the couplet of Latin verse from...

the fivefold elements of elegy which has come from classical arabic criticism has special place in hoboubi,s poem.hoboubi, like his other contemporaries, insisted on using these elements and applied their rules and regulations on the basis of the former critics,s ideas in his poem well and nicely. he believed that the elements of the ancient poem are valuable heritage in literature which is rem...

When the magistrate (“public” crucifixions) has to execute an individual by crucifixion the law mentions pitch and wax, which were used to torture the victims with fire. In classical Latin texts, incidentally, the individual to be crucified never carried a crux (vertical beam or entire cross) but only the patibulum (horizontal piece). When a criminal carried the patibulum, the crux (vertical be...

During the first century BC, famous Roman architect, Vitruvius, defined architecture as encompassing three essential properties: firmitas (firmness), utilitas (utility), and venustas (attractiveness or beauty) [...]