Culture of ancient Rome

thumb|350px|Part of the Zliten mosaic from [[Libya (Leptis Magna), about 2nd century AD. It shows (left to right) a thraex fighting a murmillo, a hoplomachus standing with another murmillo (who is signaling his defeat to the referee), and one of a matched pair.]]

architecture of the ancient Romans

calendar

biographies of famous Greeks and Romans by Plutarch

thumb|A silver talisman from the 6th or 7th century, inscribed with words similar to abracadabra Abracadabra is a magic word, historically used as an apotropaic incantation on amulets and common today in stage magic. The actual origin is unknown, but one of the first appearances of the word was in a second-century work by Roman physician Serenus Sammonicus.

figure of speech dating from Roman antiquity

word square containing a five-word Latin palindrome

pattern of human activity and symbolism associated with ancient Rome and its people

historical processes, such as acculturation, integration and assimilation of newly incorporated and peripheral populations by the Roman Republic and the later Roman Empire

Romanised culture of Gaul under the rule of the Roman Empire

thumb|250px|Reproduction of a triclinium A triclinium (: triclinia) is a formal dining room in a Roman building. The word is adopted from the Greek ()—from (), "three", and (), a sort of couch, or rather chaise longue. Each couch was sized to accommodate a diner who reclined on their left side on cushions while some household slaves served multiple courses brought from the culina, or kitchen, and others entertained guests with music, song, or dance.

small hollow object made of bronze or stone, with a dodecahedral shape

ancient building in Rome; a school (ludus) founded by the Emperor Hadrian in Rome, for the promotion of literary and scientific studies (ingenuarum artium)

horticulture of ancient Rome

syncretised culture of the romanised Britons

Roman chronological and calendrical text

social institution in the classical Roman civilization

hymn by Horace

thumb gesture used in the context of gladiatorial combat

200px|thumb|Brass replica of the Tjurkö bracteates|Tjurkö bracteate showing the word ᚹᚨᛚᚺᚨᚲᚢᚱᚾᛖ walhakurne ('Roman grain', i.e. gold coin) 200px|thumb|Map of Walhaz-derived exonym variants for Romance speakers '*Walhaz''''' is a reconstructed Proto-Germanic word meaning 'foreigner', or more specifically 'Roman', 'Romance-speaker' or '(romanised) Celt', and survives in the English words of 'Wales/Welsh' and 'Cornwall'. The term was used by the ancient Germanic peoples to describe inhabitants of the former Roman Empire, who were largely romanised and spoke Latin languages ( in Old Norse). The ad

thumb|Contorniate of Sallust A contorniate, or contourniate (UK pronunciation: ), is a type of ancient Roman medal or medallion of bronze issued in the fourth and fifth centuries CE, having a deep furrow on the contour or edge, as if the object had been turned in a lathe. The extant contorniates show portraits of various earlier emperors (especially Nero and Trajan) or of cultural figures such as Homer, Solon, Euclid, Pythagoras, Socrates, Sallust, Apollonius Tyaneus, and Apuleius, as well as athletes, whose victories are symbolized by palm leaves and chariots, either bigae or quadrigae. The

thumb|A replica xylospongium (sponge on a stick) thumb|Ancient Roman latrines in Ostia Antica

ceramic vessels to improve acoustics

thumb|5th century B.C., Attica, by the [[Phiale Painter. Red-figure phiale woman dancing with crotala (Boston MFA 97.371)]] thumb|right|Illustration taken from the drawing of an ancient marble in Jacob Spon|Spon's Miscellanea, representing one of the crotalistriae performing.

contests associated with the funeral observances for ancient heroes

ways to style hair in the ancient Rome

place of refuge in antiquity

Ancient Italian ritual humiliation

folklore in ancient Rome

The term Thraco-Roman describes the Romanized culture of Thracians under the rule of the Roman Empire. thumb|"Dionysus's Procession”, a 4th century AD Roman mosaic in the city of Augusta Trajana (modern-day Stara Zagora, [[Bulgaria)]] The Odrysian kingdom of Thrace became a Roman client kingdom c. 20 BC, while the Greek city-states on the Black Sea coast came under Roman control, first as civitates foederatae ("allied" cities with internal autonomy). After the death of the Thracian king Rhoemetalces III in 46 AD and an unsuccessful anti-Roman revolt, the kingdom was annexed as the Roman provin

various ways to style hair that were popular among the Greeks and the Romans in the ancient world

calendar era used by Hellenistic cities in Roman Palestine