…(of type) of a plain upright kind used in ordinary print, especially as distinguished from italic and Gothic…
…relating to a period before the rise or dominance of ancient Rome, or before the conquest of a particular region by the ancient Romans…
…the law code of the ancient Romans forming the basis of civil law in many countries today…
…a building containing a complex of rooms designed for bathing, relaxing, and socializing, as used in ancient Rome…
…a road built by the ancient Romans, typically paved and following a predominantly straight route…
…a style of avant-garde French novel that came to prominence in the 1950s. It rejected the plot, characters, and omniscient narrator central to the traditional novel in an attempt to reflect more faithfully the sometimes random nature of experience…
…Britain during the period ad 43-410, when most of Britain was part of the Roman Empire…
…a firework giving off a series of flaming coloured balls and sparks…
…the empire established by Augustus in 27 bc and divided by Theodosius in ad 395 into the Western or Latin and Eastern or Greek Empire…
…a novel featuring the leisurely description of the lives of closely related people…
…an occasion on which enjoyment or profit is derived from others' suffering or discomfort…
…any of the letters representing numbers in the Roman numerical system: I = 1, V = 5, X = 10, L = 50, C = 100, D = 500, M = 1,000. In this system a letter placed after another of greater value adds (thus XVI or xvi is 16), whereas a letter placed before another of greater value subtracts (thus XC is 90)…
…(1896–1982), Russian-born American linguist; full name Roman Osipovich Jakobson. His most influential work described universals in phonology…
…(b.1933), French film director, of Polish descent. His second wife, the actress Sharon Tate (1943–69), was one of the victims of a multiple murder by followers of the cult leader Charles Manson. Notable films: Rosemary’s Baby (1968), Chinatown (1974) and The Pianist (2002), for which he won an Oscar…
…a novel in which real people or events appear with invented names…
…the ancient Roman state from the expulsion of the Etruscan monarchs in 509 bc (see Tarquinius) until the assumption of power by Augustus (Octavian) in 27 bc …
…the empire set up in western Europe following the coronation of Charlemagne as emperor in the year 800. It was created by the medieval papacy in an attempt to unite Christendom under one rule. At times the territory of the empire was extensive and included Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and parts of Italy and the Netherlands…
…an extremely influential French poem of the 13th century, an allegorical romance embodying the aristocratic ethic of courtly love. It was composed by two different authors some forty years apart…
…the part of the Christian Church which acknowledges the Pope as its head, especially as it has developed since the Reformation…
…a red or pink South African sea bream…
…relating to the ancient Greeks and Romans…
