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 | Third Punic War 149-146 BCE started because the Numidian king Masinissa provoked Carthage into a war not approved by Rome; Carthage was destroyed and razed by the Romans and Carthaginian territory became the Roman province of Africa. |
| In 60 BCE Pompey (army) and Caesar (brains) along with Crassus (money) form the First Triumvirate (by private mutual agreement; no legal sanction) in order to get the senate to accede to their demands. |
| In 31 BCE Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in the East. |
| Amaterasu-Epona (1826 words) |
| The statue of Aphrodite is from Myrina, 2nd century BCE; the "Birth of Aphrodite" on the shell is from the Ludovisi Throne, 470-60 BCE; the figurine of Aphrodite on a swan is from Boeotia, Greece, 6th century BCE. |
| Celtic Goddess of smithcraft, poetry, inspiration, and healing, she was known as the "Bright Arrow" and was associated with fertility and the birth of lambs in the spring. |
| Around the 15th century BCE, the Mycenaens brought Demeter from Crete to Eleusis, the place where she found her daughter and where the initiation of women into the Great Mysteries was performed. |
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