{"id":3444,"date":"2014-09-18T00:16:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T00:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/?p=3444"},"modified":"2014-09-18T00:16:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T00:16:47","slug":"10-facts-about-ancient-rome-that-you-didnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/10-facts-about-ancient-rome-that-you-didnt-know\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Facts about Ancient Rome that You Didn&#8217;t Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saluete Omnes,<\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone&#8217;s week is going well. My week is going okay other than the horrible heat wave in California. So for your viewing and intellectual pleasure. I will present to you 10 Facts about Ancient Rome that will make you think, giggle, and ponder the world of antiquity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1.The early Romans thought Christians were literally practicing cannibalism when they heard that they consumed bread and wine as symbolic representations of the body and blood of Christ.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3446\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/09\/Spqrstone.jpg\" aria-label=\"Spqrstone 300x156\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3446\" class=\"wp-image-3446 size-medium\"  alt=\"Courtesy of Wikicommons, Lamre, and Shizhoa.\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/09\/Spqrstone-300x156.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Wikicommons, Lamre, and Shizhoa.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>2. The abbreviation SPQR can be found on many Roman statues, buildings, and military sta.ndards. It stands for \u201c<em>senatus populusque romanus.<\/em>\u201d meaning \u201cThe senate and people of Rome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3. The Romans had gods for doors <em>(Forculus),<\/em> hinges <em>(Cardea),<\/em> and thresholds <em>(Limentinus).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>4. In response to a 73 B.C. revolt against Rome by Spartacus the gladiator, 6,000 slaves were crucified.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3449\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/09\/1024px-Fedor_Bronnikov_002.jpg\" aria-label=\"1024px Fedor Bronnikov 002 300x170\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3449\" class=\"wp-image-3449 size-medium\"  alt=\"Crassus crucified 6,000 of Spartacus's followers on the road between Rome and Capua. Courtesy of WikiCommons.\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/09\/1024px-Fedor_Bronnikov_002-300x170.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crassus crucified 6,000 of Spartacus&#8217;s followers on the road between Rome and Capua. Courtesy of WikiCommons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>5. Sometimes gladiator blood was recommended by Roman physicians as an aid to fertility<\/p>\n<p>6. Some men were advised to use hippopotamus skin to make hair grow. Men and women would remove hair with bat&#8217;s blood or hedgehog ashes, or keep hair from turning gray by coloring their hair with oil mixed with earthworm ashes<\/p>\n<p>7. The Romans sometimes\u00a0trained some female slaves to fight as gladiators.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ryse: Son of Rome - Testudo Formation - Xbox One\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5LNlW600koI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>8. In battle, Romans sometimes grouped together and held their shields all around them in a formation called \u201cthe tortoise.<\/p>\n<p>9. The Romans divided their\u00a0days into 12 hours, measured by a sundial.<\/p>\n<p>10. The Vestal Virgins were\u00a0female priests who tended the sacred fire of Vesta, goddess of the hearth fire. If they lost their virginity, even as a result of rape, they were buried alive in an unmarked grave. In the 1,000-year history of the temple, only about\u00a018 Vestals received this punishment (recorded).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/09\/1024px-Fedor_Bronnikov_002-350x199.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/09\/1024px-Fedor_Bronnikov_002-350x199.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/09\/1024px-Fedor_Bronnikov_002-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/09\/1024px-Fedor_Bronnikov_002.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Saluete Omnes, I hope everyone&#8217;s week is going well. My week is going okay other than the horrible heat wave in California. So for your viewing and intellectual pleasure. I will present to you 10 Facts about Ancient Rome that will make you think, giggle, and ponder the world of antiquity. &nbsp; 1.The early Romans&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/10-facts-about-ancient-rome-that-you-didnt-know\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[60854],"tags":[235614,60850,60861,60855,235474,60869],"class_list":["post-3444","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-roman-culture","tag-ancient-rome","tag-classic-culture","tag-latin-language-2","tag-roman-culture-2","tag-roman-emprerors","tag-roman-history"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3451,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions\/3451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}