A consul held the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic (c. 509 BC to 27 BC), and ancient Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the cursus honorum (an ascending sequence of public offices to which politicians aspired) after that of the censor.Each year, the Centuriate Assembly elected two consuls to serve jointly for a one-year term.

A forum (Latin forum "public place outdoors", plural fora; English plural either fora or forums) was a public square in a Roman municipium, or any civitas, reserved primarily for the vending of goods; i.e., a marketplace, along with the buildings used for shops and the stoas used for open stalls. Many fora were constructed at remote locations along a road by the magistrate …

Hagia Sophia (lit. 'Holy Wisdom'; Ancient Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, romanized: Hagía Sophía; Latin: Sancta Sapientia; Turkish: Ayasofya), officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (Turkish: Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami-i Şerifi), is a Christian church and major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey.The cathedral was a Greek Orthodox church from 360 AD until the conquest …

Overview. The Greek hippodrome was similar to the Roman version, the circus. (The hippodrome was not a Roman amphitheatre, which was used for spectator sports, executions, and displays, or a Greek or Roman semicircular amphitheater used for theatrical performances.). The Greek hippodrome was usually set out on the slope of a hill, and the ground taken from …

The Corpus Juris (or Iuris) Civilis ("Body of Civil Law") is the modern name for a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence, issued from 529 to 534 by order of Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor.It is also sometimes referred to metonymically after one of its parts, the Code of Justinian.. The work as planned had three parts: the Code (Codex) is a compilation, by …

Denizli is an industrial city in the southwestern part of Turkey and the eastern end of the alluvial valley formed by the river Büyük Menderes, where the plain reaches an elevation of about three hundred and fifty metres (1,148 ft).Denizli is located in the country's Aegean Region.. The city has a population of about 646,278 (2018 census). This is a jump from 389,000 in 2007, due to the ...

Vespasian (/ v ɛ ˈ s p eɪ ʒ (i) ən,-z i ən /; Latin: Vespasianus [wɛspasiˈaːnʊs]; 17 November AD 9 – 23/24 June 79) was a Roman emperor who reigned from AD 69 to 79. The fourth and last emperor who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors, he founded the Flavian dynasty that ruled the Empire for 27 years. His fiscal reforms and consolidation of the empire generated political ...

May 06, 2021 · The Horses of Saint Mark, 2nd or 3rd century CE, Basilica di San Marco; with The Chariot Race in the Hippodrome, Alexander von Wagner, 1882, Manchester Art Gallery; and The Circus Maximus in Rome, Domenico Gargiulo and Viviano Codazzi, ca. 1638, Museo del Prado. For ancient Romans, nothing was more sensational than chariot racing. Grand arenas, located …

Romanos IV Diogenes (Greek: Ρωμανός Διογένης), also known as Romanus IV, was a member of the Byzantine military aristocracy who, after his marriage to the widowed empress Eudokia Makrembolitissa, was crowned Byzantine Emperor and reigned from 1068 to 1071. During his reign he was determined to halt the decline of the Byzantine military and to stop Turkish …

The Basilica Cistern, or Cisterna Basilica (Greek: βασιλική κινστέρνή, Turkish: Yerebatan Sarnıcı or Yerebatan Saray, "Subterranean Cistern" or "Subterranean Palace"), is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul, Turkey.The cistern, located 150 metres (490 ft) southwest of the Hagia Sophia on the historical peninsula of Sarayburnu ...

Nana est un roman d’Émile Zola d'abord publié sous forme de feuilleton dans Le Voltaire du 16 octobre 1879 au 5 février 1880, puis en volume chez Georges Charpentier, le 14 février 1880 [1].C'est le neuvième volume de la série Les Rougon-Macquart. Cet ouvrage traite du thème de la prostitution féminine à travers le parcours d’une lorette puis cocotte dont les charmes ont affolé ...

Roman sources indicate that over four days, Arminius destroyed all three legions and ultimately prevented Rome from subjugating Germania east of the Rhine River. ... Question: What was the largest Roman hippodrome called? Answer: The Circus Maximus was the largest of the Roman hippodromes and one of the largest sports arenas ever built. Nothing ...

The Horses of Saint Mark (Italian: Cavalli di San Marco), also known as the Triumphal Quadriga or Horses of the Hippodrome of Constantinople, is a set of bronze statues of four horses, originally part of a monument depicting a quadriga (a four-horse carriage used for chariot racing).The horses were placed on the facade, on the loggia above the porch, of St Mark's …

Jul 19, 2019 · The Hippodrome . The Hippodrome was the site in Constantinople where enormous crowds gathered to watch exciting chariot races and similar spectacles. Several other sports had been outlawed over the preceding decades, so chariot races were particularly welcome occasions.