Torn between the futile noblity of Marcus Brutus, and the clear-eyed visions of Marcus Aurelius, the latter serves best as ...

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Rudy Clay holds up his brother Cassius arm with a No. 1 salute ... This card was released in 1983 and refers to Ali's Rome Olympics triumph in 1960 when he won the gold medal in boxing's ...

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

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Within six years, Cassius Clay would go on to win an Olympic gold. The Olympics website says about the 1960 Rome winner, “Much like his painter-musician father Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., whom Ali ...

BC was a completely different time in human history. In the Third Servile War, Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator … Continue reading "15+ Facts About Spartacus That Even History Buffs Might Not Know" ...

Dio Cassius points out that "all this ruin was brought upon the ... who was buried with a mirror (right panels) and jewelry, including a Roman coin amulet showing a female charioteer representing ...