Aug 05, 2022 · Women in ancient Rome, whether free or enslaved, played many roles: empress, priestess, goddess, shop owner, midwife, prostitute, daughter, wife and mother.But they lacked any voice in public life

Aug 20, 2021 · Harpastum. Harpastum is referred to as “the small ballgame” in Latin, and true to its name the ball was small, around the size of a football, but it was hard like a softball. The word “harpastum” is actually the Latinization of the Greek word harpaston meaning “to seize or to snatch”. Like the word, harpastum was a Roman version of ...

Taxation in ancient Rome was decentralized, with the government preferring to leave the task of collecting taxes to local elected magistrates. Typically these magistrates were wealthy landowners. During the Roman Republic finances were stored inside the temple of Saturn.Under the reign of Augustus a new institution was created: the fiscus.At first it only contained the …

In ancient Rome there were a variety of officials tasked with banking.These were the argentarii, mensarii, coactores, and nummulari.The argentarii were money changers.The role of the mensarii was to help people through economic hardships, the coactores were hired to collect money and give it to their employer, and the nummulari minted and tested currency.

May 11, 2022 · The ancient Romans believed that Rome was founded on April 21, 753 B.C by the brothers Romulus and Remus, who were supposedly raised in the wild by a female wolf after their parents abandoned them.

Mar 05, 2019 · According to legend, ancient Rome was founded in 753 BC by twin siblings – Remus and Romulus who were the sons of Mars (he was believed to be the Roman god of war).The twin brothers at the time of their birth were condemned to death by Amulius, the cruel brother of their paternal grandfather (thus, from their mother Rhea Silvia’s father).