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    Lays of Ancient Rome is an 1842 collection of narrative poems, or lays, by Thomas Babington Macaulay. Four of these recount heroic episodes from early...
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    (Latin) The Battle of Lake Regillus poem from Macaulay's "Lays of Ancient Rome". Cornell, Tim, The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age...
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    by Lord Byron The Eve of St. Agnes and Lamia by John Keats The Prisoner of the Caucasus by Alexander Pushkin Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay...
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    culture of ancient Rome existed throughout the almost 1,200-year history of the civilization of Ancient Rome. The term refers to the culture of the Roman...
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  • Penny Dreadfuls Present... a poem in the Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay; for the full text of the poem see Horatius) The Horatius Stakes...
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    Ancient Rome had a variety of ships that played crucial roles in its military, trade, and transportation activities. Rome was preceded in the use of the...
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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ancient Rome: Ancient Rome – former civilization that thrived on the Italian Peninsula...
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    Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different...
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    Thomas Babington Macaulay (category Members of the Council of the Governor General of India)
    ballads Ivry and The Armada, which he later included as part of Lays of Ancient Rome, a series of very popular poems about heroic episodes in Roman history...
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    Duane's Rihannsu series of Star Trek novels pair quotations from Lays of Ancient Rome with imagined epigraphs from Romulan literature. F. Scott Fitzgerald's...
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