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It's well known that Roman gods and Greek gods became conflated and equivocated over the years due in part to the Romans adapting the Greek pantheon to ease the assimilation of the many cultures they took over during their conquests. The Roman religion then became one of the worlds most popular religions and was the official religion in most of Europe until Christianity.
Regardless, I'd say that, while the planets are named for Roman gods and there are a few exceptions, people in general are more acquainted with the Greek names and the Greek names for these gods are used more often than the Roman ones. This is all despite the fact that Roman history is much more recent and lasted for a very long time after the Greek religion faded.
For example Zeus and Hera are probably more recognizable to a lay-person in the English speaking world than Jupiter and Juno are. If you were to walk up Hollywood and ask random Americans what these names refer to, your answers would probably more often be "Greek gods, a planet and an indie movie about teenage pregnancy" and not "Greek gods and the Roman names for essentially the same gods." Why is that? How were the Greeks able to saturate every culture after them, even after cultures who tried to (and honestly rather successfully) assimilate them have came and gone over thousands of years? Like a lot of things are named for Roman Gods (like the months and the planets) but most people don't seem to know that or make the connection like they do for the Greek equivalents.
Medieval illustrations crowns looking a particular way do we have any surviving examples?
What did the Romans call the year we refer to as 46BC?
More broadly, how did the Romans refer to the year prior to the Julian calendar?
Was raw salted fish safe to eat a few hundred years ago?
Trying to settle an argument in the middle of a D&D session. Thanks!
Does the name of the country/region Palestine come from the same origin as the Biblical Philistine? If so, how and when did it get this name of all things?
Why is the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty widely ignored? This is a controversial question but I’m curious
Plutarch describes Gaius Gracchus as “the first Roman to walk up and down on the rostra and pull his toga off his shoulder” (Life of Gaius Gracchus 2.2). I understand that he means that Gaius was more outspoken and hot-headed than his brother, but is there any more historical context to this turn of phrase?
Is the word philistine, meaning lowbrow, a direct reference to the ancient Philistine? If so, why?
At any point in history has Islam been stronger outside the Middle East than inside?
Was looking around and I came across certain slavery-related statements that were stated as if fact, such as:
"The first legal slave owner in American history was a black tobacco farmer named Anthony Johnson."
"In 1860, William Ellison was a very wealthy black plantation owner and cotton gin manufacturer who lived in South Carolina."
"American Indians owned thousands of black slaves."
"In 1830 there were roughly 3,775 free black people who owned 12,740 black slaves."
"Brutal black-on-black slavery was common in Africa for thousands of years."
"Slavery was eliminated in America via the efforts of people of various ethnicities, including Caucasians, who took up the banner of the abolitionist movement."
and I wanted to ask, how true are all of these statements?
Anyone have good books on:
The Last Byzantine-Sassanid War
General Bronze Age Near-East civilizations (especially the warfare side)
Early Steppe societies
The Achaemenid Empire
Warfare on the WWII Eastern Front
How different is the Latin language now to the one used by the Romans?
If I was to learn Latin language now and used time machine to go to the times of Roman republic, would I be able to speak freely and understand others? Or has the Latin language evolved to modern times so much that it would be near indistinguishable to the one used thousand years prior, for example just like with English language?
Can I get a list of the RN ships that took part in the 1919 Fleet Review off Southend? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
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I have decided to research a family legend about what my Grandad did in World War 2.
I'm currently waiting to be told what unit he served with, if anyone actually knows.
But I don't know where to start looking to find the records of what he did.
He was British Army, Irish born and served either in Africa or Burma, I'm not clear as yet.
Apparently he served with or was attached to the Chindits for a period of time, but I don't know if it was with them the incident allegedly happened.
Where are the best places for me to start looking? Online is preferred as I have a disability that makes travel and in person research difficult.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Hi. I made a thread but got deleted because I didn't read the rules. Sorry. Anyway my question is, what was the last European country to have religion be its law? Just like Saudi today?
After WWII Baltic states were considered by the west to be under illegal occupation by the Soviet Union. Were Baltic republics only ones considered illegally occupied from all of the Soviet Republics?
Asking because question got removed:
Commanders will tell soldiers with guns to "fire" on the enemy. What did commanders of archers and/or crossbowmen say?
I've seen some films do this (most recently Lord of the Rings) where a group of archers will be commanded to "fire". But there's no gunpowder involved in a bow and arrow or a crossbow, so what did they say in a time before firearms?
Why the US embassy crisis of 1979 in Teheran was not considered an act of war? When the students assaulted the embassy, US sovereign territory, and the Iranian government didn't do anything, why hasn't it warranted a stronger military reaction? Fear of USSR involvement? Captors killing the hostages? I am aware that there was a rescue attempt by military means, but it failed. Were there threats of full scale military action had they not release the hostages?
Not sure whether or not this is a simple question, but what grain would have been used to make matzo and other bread during the time period that Passover celebrates?
What titles and styles are the children of Dukes and Counts called by? For Kings/Queens, Prince/Princess and His/Her Highness is famous, but how about lower titles of nobility?
Is there analysis on how landscape, resources and geography impacted the development of each religion?
[Question about anarcho-communism from 1900's onwards] - Who is Mother Anarchy? Or, what is it?
"Mother Anarchy loves her children" is something I've heard in this song, and I've been following the Revolution in Rojava where it was spray-painted on a wall, as well as said by someone during one of the videos *edit* - As in, from one of the Internationalists that volunteered to give aid in Northern Syria.
Did Romans eat figs with fig wasps in them?
What name would Hernán Cortés have responded to? Depending on the sources he's named Hernán, Hernando, Fernán or Fernando? Which was the spelling used in Extremadura at the time? How did he write his own name?
