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    The naumachia (in Latin naumachia, from the Ancient Greek ναυμαχία/naumachía, literally "naval combat") in the Ancient Roman world referred to both the...
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    The Naumachia Vaticana or Trajan's Naumachia (Latin: Naumachia Traiani), also referred to inaccurately as the Circus of Hadrian, was an ancient structure...
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    around 800 first received the name of "San Pellegrino in Naumachia", making reference to the naumachia built northwest of the Castel Sant'Angelo and dedicated...
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    those with ferocious beasts (venationes), reproductions of naval battles (naumachia), chariot races, athletic contests, theatrical performances by mimes,...
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  • gladiator's salute. See also: Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant and Naumachia. mors certa, hora incerta death is certain, its hour is uncertain mors...
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    Domitian held a naumachia in which Dio reports "practically all the combatants and many of the spectators as well perished". The naumachia called by Claudius...
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    wrestling, and the pancratium. Aquatic displays, such as the mock sea battle (naumachia) and a form of "water ballet", were presented in engineered pools. State-supported...
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    Tudico. "La battaglia navale sul lago Fucino. La naumachia" (PDF). Retrieved 4 April 2021. "Naumachia". Retrieved 4 April 2021. Cassius Dio, Book LXI.33...
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  • Academy. Aequa Claudius – Class four student at the Academy. Attended the naumachia with Vis. Emissa Corenius – Class three student at the Academy. Spent...
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    pavements, etc., and the remains of a spacious edifice, commonly called a Naumachia, but the real purpose of which it is difficult to determine. Saracen Castle:...
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  • Amadi. Guy married twice. His second wife was Maria, Lady of Ascalon and Naumachia, daughter of Philip of Ibelin and Simone de Montbeliard. Guy and Maria...
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    1632 the story of the battle was retold in couplets in Abraham Holland's Naumachia. Centuries later G. K. Chesterton revisited the conflict in his lively...
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  • Augusta that fed into the Aqua Marcia. On the one hand, he says the Naumachia's supply is "nowhere delivered for consumption by the people... [but the...
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    Fourth Style wall painting with naumachia (triremes), a detail from a panel from the portico of the Temple of Isis in Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological...
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  • "great triumphs", shows and masques involving a staged sea-battle or naumachia said by Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie to represent the "figure" of the...
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    who after the martyrdom takes the lead in burying St. Peter "near the Naumachia in the place called the Vatican." The text is framed as the tale of Paul's...
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  • Pope Leo III ordered the construction of the church of San Pellegrino in Naumachia dedicated to Saint Peregrine in Rome near the Hospitale Francorum, which...
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    for the purpose of staging a Naumachia, a Roman-style gladiatorial sea battle staged for an audience. Riley's Naumachia, entitled, Those About to Die...
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  • 2020). "Battling on Boards: The Ancient Greek War Games of Ship-Battle ( Naumachia ) and City-State ( Polis )". Mouseion. 17 (1): 3–42. doi:10.3138/mous...
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  • August 11, 2015. Crecente, Brian (August 24, 2013). "Lions, chariots and naumachia: The things that almost made it into Ryse: Son of Rome". Polygon. Archived...
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    Montbéliard Philip (d. aft. 1263) Guy (c. 1250–1304) m. Marie, Lady of Naumachia Philip of Ibelin (d. 1316) Hugh of Ibelin (d. aft. 1335) Hugh of Ibelin...
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  • Theatre of Balbus Theatre of Marcellus Theatre of Pompey Ludus Magnus Naumachia Vaticana Odeum of Domitian Saepta Julia Septizodium Stadium of Domitian...
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    The Battle of Lade (Ancient Greek: Ναυμαχία τῆς Λάδης, romanized: Naumachia tēs Ladēs) was a naval battle which occurred during the Ionian Revolt, in...
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  • gladiator's salute. See also: Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant and Naumachia. mors certa, hora incerta death is certain, its hour is uncertain mors...
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  • the brother of the printer, Henry Holland. His best known work is the Naumachia, a poem on the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Abraham Holland was one of the...
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    not suitable for drinking, however, and Augustus used it to fill his naumachia in Trastevere to allow the public to enjoy sham naval battles.[citation...
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    possibly to enable the nearby amphitheatre to be flooded rapidly to enable naumachia (mock naval battles) to be held. The spring still exists and is now the...
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    (small, choreography-based plays), tournaments, and a mock-sea battle or naumachia. Preparations involved the construction of a "Marriage room", a hall adjacent...
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  • History portal Oceans portal History of navigation Maritime timeline Naumachia Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories Pre-Columbian rafts Ships...
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    Max and Emil continued and added other attractions, including a type of naumachia that involved electro-mechanical effects and pyrotechnics. Max would later...
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