Search results for "Circus Maximus" - New World Encyclopedia
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- at the foot of the Aventine Hill near the Circus Maximus. Its dedication day, August 19, was celebrated thereafter during the Vinalia Rustica festival. ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 19:28, 14 November 2022
- *Cardo Maximus *Chalcidicum *Circus *Colonnaded Street *Decumanus *Hadrianic Baths with Palaestra ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
- to be sacrificed to Ceres at the Circus Maximus by having torches tied ... by a synod, he appealed to the Emperor Maximus; the latter, however, had ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 22:52, 5 February 2023
- cyclotis), and the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus, also known as the Indian ... in particular the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). They lived from the Pliocene ...64 KB (9,737 words) - 10:18, 21 January 2023
- home, located on a hill just opposite the Circus Maximus, into a monastery dedicated to the apostle, St. Andrew. Gregory himself entered as a monk. ...18 KB (2,721 words) - 14:47, 31 January 2023
- erected along the northern side of the Circus Maximus where the ancient Romans ... moved to Rome in AD 37 to stand in the Circus of Nero some 820 feet away ...25 KB (3,946 words) - 18:31, 14 October 2022
- Elephant Encyclopedia, Accidents with Elephants in zoo and circus. ... Similarly, the Roman writer Valerius Maximus records how the general ...23 KB (3,632 words) - 01:57, 15 January 2023
- Trajan's Market, the Catacombs, the Circus Maximus, the Baths of Caracalla, Castel Sant'Angelo, the Mausoleum of Augustus, the Ara Pacis, ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- lifting of the Lateranense obelisk in the Circus Maximus (c. 357 C.E.). The maximum lifting capability of a single capstan can be established by the ...36 KB (5,771 words) - 00:17, 15 January 2023
