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In [[Ancient Rome]] the month of March was the traditional start of the campaign season, and ...een music and cult in Roman ritual.<ref>J.Quasten, 1983, ''Music & Worship in Pagan & Christian Antiquity'', p.6-7</ref> ...

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...}</ref> The [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] celebrated Liberalia with sacrifices, processions, [[Ribaldry|ribald]] and gauche songs, and masks which were hung on trees.{ ...vided so that Liber governed the male seed and Libera the female. [[Ovid]] in his almanac entry for the festival identifies Libera as the celestial manif ...

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| day = First Sunday in September '''Ciminna''' is a [[Sicily|Sicilian]] city in the [[Metropolitan City of Palermo]], located approximately {{convert|30|mi ...

{{Short description|Highest war trophy for an Ancient Roman}} ...Rome|Roman]] general stripped from the body of an opposing commander slain in [[single combat]]. The spolia opima were regarded as the most honourable of ...

{{Short description|Military standard of the ancient Roman army}} ...s a [[flag]]-like object used as a [[War flag|military standard]] by units in the [[Roman army]]. A common ''vexillum'' displayed imagery of the [[Aquila ...

{{Short description|Ancient Roman festival of chariot racing}} ...hariot Racing'' (University of California Press, 1986), p. 560.</ref> held in honor of the god [[Mars (mythology)|Mars]], one 27 February and the other 1 ...

...s of the Lares Compitales |date=2009 |work=Cult Places and Cultural Change in Republican Italy |page=200 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46mtf2.14 ...ked at the head of a procession of citizens who had lands and vineyards in Rome. During the procession, prayers would be made to the goddess.<ref name="Bal ...

...itual]] and [[ceremony]]. Its presence or former presence is made concrete in [[temple]]s, [[shrine]]s and [[Church (building)|churches]], and [[cult ima ...practice agriculture", an activity fundamental to Roman identity even when Rome as a political center had become fully urbanized. ...

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{{Short description|Social rank of ancient Rome}} ...bem'', or were descended from plebeians who had held [[Curule seat#Ancient Rome|curule]] offices.<ref>{{harvnb|Brunt|1982|p=1|ps=. The curule offices were ...

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...[[Christianity]], rather than [[Religion in ancient Rome|Roman paganism]], in development of the arts. The Byzantine Empire existed for more than a thous ...s]]''. However, as [[Culture of Greece|Greek culture]] gradually conquered Rome, dancing had less educational value and was more for [[entertainment]] purp ...

...entral part of the [[Italy|Italian]] [[province of Perugia]] ([[Umbria]]), in the flood plain of the [[Topino]] river. ...|itineraries]], following the [[Vicus Martis Tudertium]] on the way out of Rome. ...