Curtius is a The Roman Colosseum Rome (Italian and Latin Roma) is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region. It is located on the lower Tiber river, near the Mediterranean Sea, at 41°50N, 12°15E. The Vatican City State, a sovereign enclave within Rome, is the seat... Roman In the Roman naming convention used in ancient Rome, male names typically contain three proper nouns which are classified as praenomen (or given name), nomen gentile (or Gens name) and cognomen. Sometimes a second cognomen (called agnomen) is added. A male who was adopted also showed his filiation [see Augustus... nomen shared by several notables.

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• Curtius Rufus, legate ca For other uses, see number 47. Centuries: 1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century Decades: 0s BC 0s 10s 20s 30s _ 40s - 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s Years: 42 43 44 45 46 - 47 - 48 49 50 51 52 Events Romans build a fortification that will later grow out... 47, proconsul
• Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historical writer in the first or second century AD, generally thought to have written under the reign of Claudius. His only surviving work, Historiae Alexandri Magni, is a biography of Alexander the Great in Latin in ten books, the first two of which are... Quintus Curtius Rufus, historian

The name is also shared by several modern personages.

• You may be looking for Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956) Ernst Curtius (September 2, 1814 - July 11, 1896), was a German archaeologist and historian. He was born at Lübeck, his brother being the noted philologist, Georg Curtius. On completing his university studies he was chosen by CA Brandis to... Ernst Curtius, archaeologist, historian
• Georg Curtius (April 16, 1820 - August 12, 1885), German philologist, was born, at Lübeck. He was the brother of the archeologist Ernst Curtius. After an education at Bonn and Berlin he was for three years a schoolmaster in Dresden, until (in 1845) he returned to Berlin University as privat... Georg Curtius, philologist
• Ernst Robert Curtius (1886 – 1956) was a German literary scholar, best known for his 1948 work Europäischer Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter (1953 English translation European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, by Willard R. Trask). It was a major study of the Medieval Latin literature and its effect... Ernest Robert Curtius, scholar, philologist
• Friedrich Curtius, internist
• Theodor Curtius, chemist

(move below to The Lacus Curtius is a mysterious hole in the ground in the Roman Forum, now small, more or less filled in and paved over with ancient stone, but once said to have been a widening chasm. It is not known what it represents, if anything; and this was already the... Lacus Curtius)?

In Roman mythology can be considered as two parts. One part, largely later and literary, consists of whole-cloth borrowings from Greek mythology. The other, largely early and cultic, functioned in very different ways from its Greek counterpart. Nature of early Roman myth One might almost say that the archaic Romans... Roman mythology, Curtius was Marcus Curtius. In Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC Decades: 490s BC 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC - 440s BC - 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC 390s BC Years: 450 BC 449 BC 448 BC 447 BC 446 BC - 445 BC - 444 BC 443 BC... 445 BC, lightning struck near the The Roman Forum (Forum Romanum) was a central area of ancient Rome in which commerce, business, trading and the administration of justice took place. It is now famous for the remains, which eloquently show the use of urban spaces during the Roman Age. The term Roman Forum includes all the... Forum Romanum. The hole it created was called the The Lacus Curtius is a mysterious hole in the ground in the Roman Forum, now small, more or less filled in and paved over with ancient stone, but once said to have been a widening chasm. It is not known what it represents, if anything; and this was already the... Lacus Curtius. An For alternate usages of Oracle, see Oracle (disambiguation) An Oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion; an infallible authority, usually spiritual in nature. In the ancient world many sites gained a reputation for the dispensing of oracular wisdom: they too... oracle claimed that the hole, which severely disrupted the business at the Forum, could be closed by the most precious thing The Roman Colosseum Rome (Italian and Latin Roma) is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region. It is located on the lower Tiber river, near the Mediterranean Sea, at 41°50N, 12°15E. The Vatican City State, a sovereign enclave within Rome, is the seat... Rome had. Curtius, dressed in full armor and riding a fine horse, jumped into the hole, which then disappeared.

Titus Livius (around 59 BC - 17 AD), known as Livy in English, wrote a monumental history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita, from its founding (traditionally dated to 753 BC). Livy was a native of Padua on the Po River in northern Italy. Life and Works The books title, Ab... Livy VII, 6.

Alternately, the Lacus was named after Mettius Curtius, a Sabine (in Latin and in Italian, Sabina) is a sub-region of Latium, Italy, on the North-East of Rome toward Rieti. It is named after the Sabines, an ancient people that were in Latium before Rome was founded. The legend says that Romans abducted Sabine women to populate the... Sabine horseman who rode into or fell into it while fighting against Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome in Roman mythology, were the supposed sons of the god Mars and the priestess Rhea Silvia. Romulus is considered the first King of Rome. A Statue in Rome of Romulus and Remus being nursed by the Capitoline Wolf Their mother, Rhea Silvia, had been... Romulus.

Still another version has it that Caius Curtius, a For modern diplomatic consuls, see Consulate general. Consul (abbrev. cos.) was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Empire. Under the Republic, the minimum age of election to consul for patricians was 40 years of age, for plebeians 42. Two consuls were elected... consul of Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC Decades: 490s BC 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC - 440s BC - 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC 390s BC Years: 450 BC 449 BC 448 BC 447 BC 446 BC - 445 BC - 444 BC 443 BC... 445 BC, consecrated the site after the lightning strike.

• Lacus Curtius article (http://www.livius.org/la-ld/lacus_curtius/lacus_curtius.html)

Curtius is a The word crater may refer to A landform resembling a pit or depression in the topography that can be formed in several ways: speculation exists that a meteorite impact with another body can cause an impact crater, an electrical discharge on any scale tends to form circular craters, volcanic activity... crater on the For other moons in the solar system see natural satellite. For other uses see Moon (disambiguation). Crust composition Oxygen 43% Silicon 21% Aluminium 10% Calcium 9% Iron 9% Magnesium 5% Titanium 2% Nickel 0.6% Sodium 0.3% Chromium 0.2% Potassium 0.1% Manganese 0.1% Sulfur 0.1... Moon.