Imprisonment in ancient Rome was not a sentence under Roman law. Incarceration (publica custodia) in facilities such as the Tullianum was intended to...

Prison (Italian: Carcere Mamertino), in antiquity the Tullianum, was a prison (carcer) with a dungeon (oubliette) located in the Comitium in ancient Rome...

Slavery in ancient Rome played an important role in society and the economy. Unskilled or low-skill slaves labored in the fields, mines, and mills with...

Stambaugh, The Ancient Roman City (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988), p. 347, note 4 online and p. 348, note 13; O.F. Robinson, Ancient Rome: City Planning...

events in the Roman Kingdom and Republic and the Roman and Byzantine Empires. To read about the background of these events, see Ancient Rome and History...

1946–present The history of Rome includes the history of the city of Rome as well as the civilisation of ancient Rome. Roman history has been influential...

Painting in ancient Rome is a rather poorly understood aspect of Roman art, as there are few survivals, which are mostly wall-paintings from Pompeii,...

Roman Kingdom, also known as the Roman monarchy and the regal period of ancient Rome, was the earliest period of Roman history when the city and its territory...

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architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" (Carceri d'invenzione). He was the father of Francesco...

impensa libido. See further discussion at Marriage in ancient Rome#Adultery and Sexuality in ancient Rome#Fidelity and adultery). Ariadne Staples, From Good...

were numerous prisons not only in the capital Rome, but throughout the Roman Empire. However, a regulated prison system did not emerge. In Medieval Songhai...

Rebibbia is an urban zone of Rome, Italy. It is located on the ancient Via Tiburtina on the northeast edge of the city. Administratively Rebibbia is part...

were a flight of steps located in the ancient city of Rome. Nicknamed the Stairs of Mourning, the stairs are infamous in Roman history as a place of execution...

The lautumiae were tufa quarries that became a topographical marker in ancient Rome. They were located on the northeast slope of the Capitoline Hill, forming...

local city council would release all prisoners from Rome's prisons except those that were locked in St. Angelo. This chain of events was, according to...

particularly in the early Christian era, Rome's catacombs performed a similar function as repositories for inhumation burials. By ancient tradition, cemeteries...

Christianization Hypatia of Alexandria Religion in ancient Rome "the traditional Roman policy, which tolerated all differences in the one loyalty" Philip Hughes, "History...

prisons, unlike secular prisons, typically involved solitary confinement, sometimes mitigated by visits from superiors. Inmates in monastic prisons were...

series was started in 1745, when Piranesi was already well known for more conventional prints of the ancient and modern buildings of Rome. The first state...

the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the centre of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally...

that dates to ancient times. Social institutions similar to serfdom occurred in the ancient world. The status of the helots in the ancient Greek city-state...

on the site of the Forum Boarium of ancient Rome. It was placed in the Palazzo Dei Conservatori for safe keeping in 1950 and remains there today. The Hercules...

Rome is the largest city in and the county seat of Floyd County, Georgia, United States. Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, it is...

after the historical era began, including ancient Greece, ancient Rome, the Phoenicians, ancient China, ancient Japan, Pre-Islamic Arabia, early modern...

built by the Emperor Nero largely on the Oppian Hill in the heart of ancient Rome after the great fire in 64 AD had destroyed a large part of the city. It...

steep cliff on the south side of the Capitoline Hill that was used in Ancient Rome as a site of execution. Adjudicated murderers, traitors, perjurors...

found in some abundance at Delphi (Greece), specify in detail the prerequisites for liberation. A History of Ancient Greece explains that in the context...

the prisons, so that when it was necessary to inflict punishment it might be done by their agency." History of Rome, iii. p. 646. Burnett, Coinage in the...

considered a great art in ancient Rome and an important tool for disseminating knowledge and promoting oneself in elections, in part because there were...