The Roman Senate started life as an advisory council, filled entirely with patricians. In the last two centuries of the republic, however, it had become much more powerful and a major player in ...

During the reign of Leo the Great (457-474) two patricians and brethren on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land lodged with an old widow, a Christian of Jewish descent. Seeing the many miracles wrought at a ...

The imagery of a caged parrot is centuries old and has to do with Vasco da Gama's travels to India. The "caged parrot" metaphor has been used by the Supreme Court for the CBI not just in the Arvind ...

Today waffles are made with butter, however Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder writes that the use of butter differentiated the aristocratic, snobbish patricians from the commoner plebeians,” he ...

In ancient Rome, otium, the Latin word signifying freedom from work and leisure time, was a dear activity to the wealthy Patricians who could happily afford not to work for a living. Fast forward ...

“In the case of Justinian and Theodora, all members of the senate and those as well who held the rank of patricians, whenever they entered into their presence, would prostrate themselves to the ...

And the folk musicians who did make it to #1, at least during this era, were bloodless patricians who sang slave spirituals and Appalachian murder ballads like they were sweet little lullabies.

Of the 65 victims in Kildare, almost half (30) were alleged to have been abused in one school – Dominican College, Newbridge ...

Gabriella Pession as Antonia Gabriella Pession brings Antonia to life, the wife of one of Rome’s most renowned patricians, ...

During the reign of Leo the Great (457-474) two patricians and brethren on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land lodged with an old widow, a Christian of Jewish descent. Seeing the many miracles wrought at a ...