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This Day in Ancient History - Cicero Thwarts an Assassination Attempt
2009-10-30T09:37:38Z
2009-11-07T07:53:33Z
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In 63 B.C., the discontented patrician Catiline and his largely equestrian followers gathered an armed force to march on Rome. Catiline was upset because he had lost his bid for the top office (consul) after a politically charged campaign, in which he had promised debt cancellation, and an election in which Cicero wore a breastplate for personal safety <a href =http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/a/258536.htm>Read more...</a><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm">This Day in Ancient History - Cicero Thwarts an Assassination Attempt</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 07:53:33.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm&zItl=This Day in Ancient History - Cicero Thwarts an Assassination Attempt">Email this</a></p>
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In 63 B.C., the discontented patrician Catiline and his largely equestrian followers gathered an armed force to march on Rome. Catiline was upset because he had lost his bid for the top office (consul) after a politically charged campaign, in which he had promised debt cancellation, and an election in which Cicero wore a breastplate for personal safety <a href =http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/a/258536.htm>Read more...</a><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm">This Day in Ancient History - Cicero Thwarts an Assassination Attempt</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 07:53:33.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-cicero-thwarts-an-assassination-attempt.htm&zItl=This Day in Ancient History - Cicero Thwarts an Assassination Attempt">Email this</a></p>
This Day in Ancient History - November 7
2009-10-30T09:35:23Z
2009-11-07T07:53:03Z
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On this day in 8 B.C., one of the great patron of poets, <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_maecenas.htm">Maecenas</A>, died. His lineage was Etruscan, and it was probably from his family that he acquired great wealth. He was an advisor to the first Roman emperor, Augustus, which also made him a powerful Roman. Among the artists he helped financially were Vergil and Horace. Horace addresses Maecenas in his first Ode.<BR><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/horace/index.htm">Horace</A><BR><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/aeneid/a/VergilTradition.htm">Vergil</A><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm">This Day in Ancient History - November 7</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 07:53:03.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm&zItl=This Day in Ancient History - November 7">Email this</a></p>
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On this day in 8 B.C., one of the great patron of poets, <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_maecenas.htm">Maecenas</A>, died. His lineage was Etruscan, and it was probably from his family that he acquired great wealth. He was an advisor to the first Roman emperor, Augustus, which also made him a powerful Roman. Among the artists he helped financially were Vergil and Horace. Horace addresses Maecenas in his first Ode.<BR><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/horace/index.htm">Horace</A><BR><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/aeneid/a/VergilTradition.htm">Vergil</A><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm">This Day in Ancient History - November 7</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 07:53:03.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/07/this-day-in-ancient-history-november-7.htm&zItl=This Day in Ancient History - November 7">Email this</a></p>
Who Was Agrippina the Younger?
2009-11-06T14:50:25Z
2009-11-06T14:40:31Z
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, produced by Natalia Bauer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme.</div><br/>On November 6 in 15 (or 16) B.C. <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/agrippinayounger/g/AgrippinaYounge.htm">Agrippina the Younger</A> (Agrippina minor) was born at Ara Ubiorum, in Germany. Her name was Julia Agrippina. She was a daughter of Agrippina the Elder and the very popular Germanicus Julius Caesar. Emperor Caligula was her brother and Emperor Claudius was her uncle, as well as a husband. To an earlier husband, Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, Agrippina the Younger bore Nero, who became emperor after the death of his step-father Claudius. Agrippina was suspected of poisoning her imperial husband after he made arrangements for Nero to succeed him. She also wrote memoirs <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/juvenal/a/Juvenal.htm">Juvenal the satirist</a> may have used as reference material.<P>References:<ul><LI>John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon, Antony J. S. Spawforth "Agrippina" The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization. Ed. Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Oxford University Press, 1998.<li>To Those Who Fell on Agrippina's Pen, by Jerry Clack The Classical World © 1975</ul><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm">Who Was Agrippina the Younger?</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 14:40:31.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm&zItl=Who Was Agrippina the Younger?">Email this</a></p>
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, produced by Natalia Bauer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme.</div><br/>On November 6 in 15 (or 16) B.C. <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/agrippinayounger/g/AgrippinaYounge.htm">Agrippina the Younger</A> (Agrippina minor) was born at Ara Ubiorum, in Germany. Her name was Julia Agrippina. She was a daughter of Agrippina the Elder and the very popular Germanicus Julius Caesar. Emperor Caligula was her brother and Emperor Claudius was her uncle, as well as a husband. To an earlier husband, Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, Agrippina the Younger bore Nero, who became emperor after the death of his step-father Claudius. Agrippina was suspected of poisoning her imperial husband after he made arrangements for Nero to succeed him. She also wrote memoirs <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/juvenal/a/Juvenal.htm">Juvenal the satirist</a> may have used as reference material.<P>References:<ul><LI>John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon, Antony J. S. Spawforth "Agrippina" The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization. Ed. Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. Oxford University Press, 1998.<li>To Those Who Fell on Agrippina's Pen, by Jerry Clack The Classical World © 1975</ul><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm">Who Was Agrippina the Younger?</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 14:40:31.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/06/who-was-agrippina-the-younger.htm&zItl=Who Was Agrippina the Younger?">Email this</a></p>
This Week in Ancient History
2009-11-01T15:42:58Z
2009-11-06T09:07:06Z
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<p><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa062601a.htm"><img src="http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/t/x/2/theodosius.jpg" alt="Emperor Theodosius who outlawed paganism" hspace="5" align="left" border="0" /></a>On this week in ancient history, the <em>Ludi Plebeii</em> 'Plebeian Games' continued; <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa062601a.htm">Emperor Theodosius</a> banned pagan worship; the future emperor Nerva was born; and two important Christians, Martin of Tours and <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/earlychurch/p/staugustine.htm">Augustine</a>, died.<br />
Read more about this week in <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/dayinhistory/thisdayinhistory.htm">November in Ancient History</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa062601a.htm"><img src="http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/t/x/2/theodosius.jpg" alt="Emperor Theodosius who outlawed paganism" hspace="5" align="left" border="0" /></a>On this week in ancient history, the <em>Ludi Plebeii</em> 'Plebeian Games' continued; <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa062601a.htm">Emperor Theodosius</a> banned pagan worship; the future emperor Nerva was born; and two important Christians, Martin of Tours and <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/earlychurch/p/staugustine.htm">Augustine</a>, died.<br />
Read more about this week in <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/dayinhistory/thisdayinhistory.htm">November in Ancient History</a></p>
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Thursday's Term to Learn - Plutocracy
2009-11-06T12:02:39Z
2009-11-05T16:13:33Z
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In his first <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/latinliterature/a/rootsofsatire.htm">satire</a>, <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/juvenal/a/Juvenal.htm">Juvenal</a> asks if he has to sit back, listening to all the rantings going on around him. By line 30 he has covered so much of what he thinks is wrong with his society that he comments
<blockquote><em>difficile est saturam non scribere</em><br />'It's hard to not-write satire.' </blockquote>
<p>This programmatic satire flashed through my mind when this morning's Today Show announced that Goldman Sachs had received 200 doses of the H1N1 vaccine. If there were adequate supplies to go around, it wouldn't have raised an eyebrow, but there aren't, yet. Immediate questions are of the type: Why does Wall Street get government-funded vaccines ahead of, say, the school-aged (statistically said to be more at risk than healthy adults) kids in my town? There are explanations for it (see <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/33655838/ns/health-cold_and_flu/">Amid shortage, big NYC firms get swine vaccine</a>), but before I read them or even thought seriously about the pros and cons, or researched whether the vaccines were actually being distributed gratis, or checked whether Goldman-Sachs routinely employs statistically-at risk individuals, a topical word for this week's Thursday's Term, <strong>Plutocracy</strong>, had lodged itself in my brain. I'm truly sorry I can't produce a Roman satire -- in <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/literat3/g/052909DactylicHexameter.htm">dactylic hexameter</a> or anything else.
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Plutocracy comes from two Greek words, <em>ploutos</em> 'wealth' and <em>kratia</em> 'power'. Ploutos should be familiar from the name Pluto that belongs to a former-planet. It comes from Greek mythology: the Underworld god is often called Pluto. The name Pluto suggests the god is the giver of wealth, since it is from the earth that metals come. Plutocracy doesn't necessarily mean rule by the wealthy -- that would be plutarchy; however, the <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://old.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2383986">Greek-English lexicon Liddell-Scott</a> defines <em>ploutokratia</em> as an oligarchy of wealth, and cites <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://old.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3aabo%3atlg%2c0032%2c002%3a4%3a6%3a12&vers=original&word=ploutokra^ti%2fa#word1">Xenophon's use of the term</a>.
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Among other instances, plutocracy has been used to describe the late archaic and classical age <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_xenophon_lacedaemonians.htm">Spartan system</a>, where the elite paid high taxes in order to keep their full political rights, according to "Population Patterns in Late Archaic and Classical Sparta Population," by Thomas J. Figueira. Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-), Vol. 116, (1986), pp. 165-213.
<h3>Previous Thursdays' Terms to Learn:</h3>
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<LI><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/10/29/thursdays-term-to-learn-forum.htm">Forum</A><li>
<LI><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/10/22/thursdays-term-to-learn-didactic-poetry.htm">Didactic Poetry</A></li>
<li><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/10/15/thursdays-term-to-learn-labyrinth.htm">Labyrinth</A></li>
<li><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/10/08/acropolis.htm">Acropolis</A></li>
<LI><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/10/01/thursdays-term-sarcophagus.htm">Sarcophagus</A></li>
<li><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/09/24/thursdays-term-to-learn-sophrosyne.htm">Sophrosyne</A></li><LI><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/09/17/thursdays-term-to-learn-septuagint.htm">Septuagint</A></li>
<li><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/09/10/thursdays-term-to-learn-agora.htm">Agora</a></li>
<li><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/09/03/thursdays-term-to-learn-athenian-constitution-athenaion-politeia.htm">Athenian Constitution</a></li>
<li><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/08/27/thursdays-term-to-learn-relegatio.htm">Relegation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/08/20/thursdays-term-delator.htm">Delator</a></li> <li><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/08/13/thursdays-term-triumvirate.htm">Triumvirate</a></li>
<li><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/08/06/thursdays-term-principate.htm">Principate</a></li><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/05/thursdays-term-to-learn-plutocracy.htm">Thursday's Term to Learn - Plutocracy</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 16:13:33.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/05/thursdays-term-to-learn-plutocracy.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/05/thursdays-term-to-learn-plutocracy.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/05/thursdays-term-to-learn-plutocracy.htm&zItl=Thursday's Term to Learn - Plutocracy">Email this</a></p>
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In his first <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/latinliterature/a/rootsofsatire.htm">satire</a>, <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/juvenal/a/Juvenal.htm">Juvenal</a> asks if he has to sit back, listening to all the rantings going on around him. By line 30 he has covered so much of what he thinks is wrong with his society that he comments
<blockquote><em>difficile est saturam non scribere</em><br />'It's hard to not-write satire.' </blockquote>
<p>This programmatic satire flashed through my mind when this morning's Today Show announced that Goldman Sachs had received 200 doses of the H1N1 vaccine. If there were adequate supplies to go around, it wouldn't have raised an eyebrow, but there aren't, yet. Immediate questions are of the type: Why does Wall Street get government-funded vaccines ahead of, say, the school-aged (statistically said to be more at risk than healthy adults) kids in my town? There are explanations for it (see <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/33655838/ns/health-cold_and_flu/">Amid shortage, big NYC firms get swine vaccine</a>), but before I read them or even thought seriously about the pros and cons, or researched whether the vaccines were actually being distributed gratis, or checked whether Goldman-Sachs routinely employs statistically-at risk individuals, a topical word for this week's Thursday's Term, <strong>Plutocracy</strong>, had lodged itself in my brain. I'm truly sorry I can't produce a Roman satire -- in <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/literat3/g/052909DactylicHexameter.htm">dactylic hexameter</a> or anything else.
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Plutocracy comes from two Greek words, <em>ploutos</em> 'wealth' and <em>kratia</em> 'power'. Ploutos should be familiar from the name Pluto that belongs to a former-planet. It comes from Greek mythology: the Underworld god is often called Pluto. The name Pluto suggests the god is the giver of wealth, since it is from the earth that metals come. Plutocracy doesn't necessarily mean rule by the wealthy -- that would be plutarchy; however, the <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://old.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2383986">Greek-English lexicon Liddell-Scott</a> defines <em>ploutokratia</em> as an oligarchy of wealth, and cites <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://old.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3aabo%3atlg%2c0032%2c002%3a4%3a6%3a12&vers=original&word=ploutokra^ti%2fa#word1">Xenophon's use of the term</a>.
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Among other instances, plutocracy has been used to describe the late archaic and classical age <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_xenophon_lacedaemonians.htm">Spartan system</a>, where the elite paid high taxes in order to keep their full political rights, according to "Population Patterns in Late Archaic and Classical Sparta Population," by Thomas J. Figueira. Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-), Vol. 116, (1986), pp. 165-213.
<h3>Previous Thursdays' Terms to Learn:</h3>
<ul>
<LI><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/10/29/thursdays-term-to-learn-forum.htm">Forum</A><li>
<LI><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/10/22/thursdays-term-to-learn-didactic-poetry.htm">Didactic Poetry</A></li>
<li><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/10/15/thursdays-term-to-learn-labyrinth.htm">Labyrinth</A></li>
<li><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/10/08/acropolis.htm">Acropolis</A></li>
<LI><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/10/01/thursdays-term-sarcophagus.htm">Sarcophagus</A></li>
<li><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/09/24/thursdays-term-to-learn-sophrosyne.htm">Sophrosyne</A></li><LI><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/09/17/thursdays-term-to-learn-septuagint.htm">Septuagint</A></li>
<li><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/09/10/thursdays-term-to-learn-agora.htm">Agora</a></li>
<li><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/09/03/thursdays-term-to-learn-athenian-constitution-athenaion-politeia.htm">Athenian Constitution</a></li>
<li><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/08/27/thursdays-term-to-learn-relegatio.htm">Relegation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/08/20/thursdays-term-delator.htm">Delator</a></li> <li><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/08/13/thursdays-term-triumvirate.htm">Triumvirate</a></li>
<li><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/08/06/thursdays-term-principate.htm">Principate</a></li><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/05/thursdays-term-to-learn-plutocracy.htm">Thursday's Term to Learn - Plutocracy</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 16:13:33.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/05/thursdays-term-to-learn-plutocracy.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/05/thursdays-term-to-learn-plutocracy.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/05/thursdays-term-to-learn-plutocracy.htm&zItl=Thursday's Term to Learn - Plutocracy">Email this</a></p>
Wordless Wednesday - Guess Who
2009-11-03T21:20:29Z
2009-11-04T06:55:32Z
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<a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/emperors/ig/12-Caesars/Caligula.htm"><img src="http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/v/x/2/caligula.jpg" alt="" /></a><br />© <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/1194932706/">The Trustees of the British Museum, produced by Natalia Bauer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme</a><P>This page may be useful: <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/epigraphy/qt/InscriptionAbbr.htm">Abbreviations in Latin Inscriptions</A>.<P>Need more clues?
<ol>
<li>Roman Emperor.
<li>One of the crazy ones.
<li>Known by a nickname.</ol>
<p>Give up? Click the image or the photo credit for the answer.</p>
<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://www.wordlesswednesday.com/">Wordless Wednesday</a> and <a href="http://collectibles.about.com/od/valuableresources/a/wordlesswednes.htm">About.com's Wordless Wednesday</A>
<p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/04/wordless-wednesday-guess-who-7.htm">Wordless Wednesday - Guess Who</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 06:55:32.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/04/wordless-wednesday-guess-who-7.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/04/wordless-wednesday-guess-who-7.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/04/wordless-wednesday-guess-who-7.htm&zItl=Wordless Wednesday - Guess Who">Email this</a></p>
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<a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/emperors/ig/12-Caesars/Caligula.htm"><img src="http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/v/x/2/caligula.jpg" alt="" /></a><br />© <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/1194932706/">The Trustees of the British Museum, produced by Natalia Bauer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme</a><P>This page may be useful: <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/epigraphy/qt/InscriptionAbbr.htm">Abbreviations in Latin Inscriptions</A>.<P>Need more clues?
<ol>
<li>Roman Emperor.
<li>One of the crazy ones.
<li>Known by a nickname.</ol>
<p>Give up? Click the image or the photo credit for the answer.</p>
<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://www.wordlesswednesday.com/">Wordless Wednesday</a> and <a href="http://collectibles.about.com/od/valuableresources/a/wordlesswednes.htm">About.com's Wordless Wednesday</A>
<p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/04/wordless-wednesday-guess-who-7.htm">Wordless Wednesday - Guess Who</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 06:55:32.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/04/wordless-wednesday-guess-who-7.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/04/wordless-wednesday-guess-who-7.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/04/wordless-wednesday-guess-who-7.htm&zItl=Wordless Wednesday - Guess Who">Email this</a></p>
On This Day in Ancient History - Plebeian Games
2009-11-03T19:14:11Z
2009-11-04T06:50:43Z
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In ancient Rome, from November 4-17, the Plebeian Aediles put on the Ludi Plebeii in the Circus Flaminius. The lovis Epulum was a great public feast put on during the games on the Ides of November. (Do you know which day was the Ides? [See <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/romancalendars/f/110309Ides.htm">When Were the Ides?</A>]) The ludi of the ludi plebeii were both theatrical performances and circus games.
<ul><LI><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/rome/a/ludiscaenici.htm">Ludi Scaenici</A></li><li><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/calendars/a/romcalterm.htm">Roman Calendar</A></li></ul><img src="http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/G/j/_/2/kingtut.jpg" align="left" hspace="5" border="0" alt="King Tut" />
<P>On this day in 1922, <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/egyptarchaeology/g/CarterHoward.htm">Howard Carter</a> discovered the tomb of <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/rulersleaderskings/f/kingtut.htm">King Tut</a>.<P><I>Photo: Tutankhamen<br />
Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images</i><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/04/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-plebeian-games.htm">On This Day in Ancient History - Plebeian Games</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 06:50:43.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/04/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-plebeian-games.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/04/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-plebeian-games.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/04/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-plebeian-games.htm&zItl=On This Day in Ancient History - Plebeian Games">Email this</a></p>
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In ancient Rome, from November 4-17, the Plebeian Aediles put on the Ludi Plebeii in the Circus Flaminius. The lovis Epulum was a great public feast put on during the games on the Ides of November. (Do you know which day was the Ides? [See <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/romancalendars/f/110309Ides.htm">When Were the Ides?</A>]) The ludi of the ludi plebeii were both theatrical performances and circus games.
<ul><LI><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/rome/a/ludiscaenici.htm">Ludi Scaenici</A></li><li><a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/calendars/a/romcalterm.htm">Roman Calendar</A></li></ul><img src="http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/G/j/_/2/kingtut.jpg" align="left" hspace="5" border="0" alt="King Tut" />
<P>On this day in 1922, <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/egyptarchaeology/g/CarterHoward.htm">Howard Carter</a> discovered the tomb of <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/rulersleaderskings/f/kingtut.htm">King Tut</a>.<P><I>Photo: Tutankhamen<br />
Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images</i><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/04/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-plebeian-games.htm">On This Day in Ancient History - Plebeian Games</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 06:50:43.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/04/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-plebeian-games.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/04/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-plebeian-games.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/04/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-plebeian-games.htm&zItl=On This Day in Ancient History - Plebeian Games">Email this</a></p>
Myth Monday - Medea and Athens
2009-11-07T11:18:51Z
2009-11-02T06:55:26Z
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October's Myth Mondays featured the legendary <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/theseus/ss/102609TheseusAdventures.htm">Theseus</a> and the mythological history of the real city over which he ruled, Athens.
<div style="width:170px;float:right;font-size:0.8em;margin:5px 5px 5px
5px;text-align:center;"><img src="http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/q/x/2/Prometheus.jpg" alt=""="width:170px;height:227px;border:none;" /><br/>
Prometheus Fire-bringer<br />CC Flickr User <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryansblog/419242017/">bryansblog</A></div>
Theseus was recognized when he arrived in Athens by the sword and sandals of his father, Aegeus.
The first to recognize them was not Theseus' father, however, but his wife, the woman who is the focus of November's Myth Mondays. She is <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa072799.htm">Medea</a>, originally of <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/europe/g/Colchis.htm">Colchis</a>. Medea conspired to make Aegeus poison his son, but Aegeus recognized the sword and sandals in the nick of time and swept the poisoned goblet from his son's hand.
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<a href =http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/a/260142.htm>Read more...</a><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/02/myth-monday-medea-and-athens.htm">Myth Monday - Medea and Athens</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 at 06:55:26.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/02/myth-monday-medea-and-athens.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/02/myth-monday-medea-and-athens.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/02/myth-monday-medea-and-athens.htm&zItl=Myth Monday - Medea and Athens">Email this</a></p>
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October's Myth Mondays featured the legendary <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/theseus/ss/102609TheseusAdventures.htm">Theseus</a> and the mythological history of the real city over which he ruled, Athens.
<div style="width:170px;float:right;font-size:0.8em;margin:5px 5px 5px
5px;text-align:center;"><img src="http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/q/x/2/Prometheus.jpg" alt=""="width:170px;height:227px;border:none;" /><br/>
Prometheus Fire-bringer<br />CC Flickr User <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryansblog/419242017/">bryansblog</A></div>
Theseus was recognized when he arrived in Athens by the sword and sandals of his father, Aegeus.
The first to recognize them was not Theseus' father, however, but his wife, the woman who is the focus of November's Myth Mondays. She is <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa072799.htm">Medea</a>, originally of <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/europe/g/Colchis.htm">Colchis</a>. Medea conspired to make Aegeus poison his son, but Aegeus recognized the sword and sandals in the nick of time and swept the poisoned goblet from his son's hand.
<ul><li><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/theseus/f/swordandsandals.htm">FAQ - Sword and Sandals</a></li>
</ul>
<a href =http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/a/260142.htm>Read more...</a><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/02/myth-monday-medea-and-athens.htm">Myth Monday - Medea and Athens</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 at 06:55:26.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/02/myth-monday-medea-and-athens.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/02/myth-monday-medea-and-athens.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/02/myth-monday-medea-and-athens.htm&zItl=Myth Monday - Medea and Athens">Email this</a></p>
On This Day in Ancient History - Mommsen
2009-10-31T21:39:42Z
2009-11-01T06:50:35Z
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<img src="http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/1/J/mommsen_th.jpg" align="left" hspace="5">On this day in 1903 Theodor Mommsen died. Mommsen is considered the greatest classical scholar of the 19th century. In 1902 he won a Nobel Prize for Literature.
Read more about <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/classicalclassics/g/Mommsen.htm">Theodor Mommsen</A>. <P>Mommsen image © clipart.com.<p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/01/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-mommsen.htm">On This Day in Ancient History - Mommsen</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Sunday, November 1st, 2009 at 06:50:35.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/01/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-mommsen.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/01/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-mommsen.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/01/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-mommsen.htm&zItl=On This Day in Ancient History - Mommsen">Email this</a></p>
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<img src="http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/1/J/mommsen_th.jpg" align="left" hspace="5">On this day in 1903 Theodor Mommsen died. Mommsen is considered the greatest classical scholar of the 19th century. In 1902 he won a Nobel Prize for Literature.
Read more about <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/classicalclassics/g/Mommsen.htm">Theodor Mommsen</A>. <P>Mommsen image © clipart.com.<p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/01/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-mommsen.htm">On This Day in Ancient History - Mommsen</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Sunday, November 1st, 2009 at 06:50:35.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/01/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-mommsen.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/01/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-mommsen.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/11/01/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-mommsen.htm&zItl=On This Day in Ancient History - Mommsen">Email this</a></p>
On This Day in Ancient History - Romulus Augustulus Crowned
2009-10-01T20:50:07Z
2009-10-31T06:50:47Z
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On this Day in A.D. 475, the last western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was crowned in Ravenna. He was about 14 at the time. Romulus Augustulus was ousted a year later by Odoacer and sent to Campania, marking one of the more popular dates for the Fall of Rome. <BR><A href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/odoacer/index.htm">Odoacer</A><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/10/31/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-romulus-augustulus-crowned.htm">On This Day in Ancient History - Romulus Augustulus Crowned</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Saturday, October 31st, 2009 at 06:50:47.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/10/31/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-romulus-augustulus-crowned.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/10/31/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-romulus-augustulus-crowned.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/10/31/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-romulus-augustulus-crowned.htm&zItl=On This Day in Ancient History - Romulus Augustulus Crowned">Email this</a></p>
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On this Day in A.D. 475, the last western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was crowned in Ravenna. He was about 14 at the time. Romulus Augustulus was ousted a year later by Odoacer and sent to Campania, marking one of the more popular dates for the Fall of Rome. <BR><A href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/odoacer/index.htm">Odoacer</A><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/10/31/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-romulus-augustulus-crowned.htm">On This Day in Ancient History - Romulus Augustulus Crowned</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Saturday, October 31st, 2009 at 06:50:47.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/10/31/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-romulus-augustulus-crowned.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/10/31/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-romulus-augustulus-crowned.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/10/31/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-romulus-augustulus-crowned.htm&zItl=On This Day in Ancient History - Romulus Augustulus Crowned">Email this</a></p>