• Thumbnail for Marcus Terentius Varro
    Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC) was a Roman polymath and a prolific author. He is regarded as ancient Rome's greatest scholar, and was described by...
    18 KB (1,899 words) - 06:03, 13 January 2024
  • Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus (116 – soon after 56 BC), younger brother of the more famous Lucius Licinius Lucullus, was a supporter of Lucius Cornelius...
    14 KB (1,665 words) - 00:01, 13 February 2024
  • Greece. Marcus Terentius Varro, adopted Marcus Licinius Lucullus, who subsequently became Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus. Marcus Terentius M. f. Varro Lucullus...
    25 KB (3,250 words) - 19:15, 8 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for History of encyclopedias
    ancient Chinese Erya are also sometimes described as "encyclopedias". Marcus Terentius Varro (/ˈmɑːrkəs təˈrɛnʃəs ˈværoʊ/; 116 BC – 27 BC) was an ancient Roman...
    50 KB (6,241 words) - 13:23, 28 April 2024
  • (Antiquities of Human and Divine Things) was one of the chief works of Marcus Terentius Varro (1st century BC). The work has been lost, but having been substantially...
    4 KB (461 words) - 12:22, 8 April 2024
  • Gaius Terentius Varro (fl. 218-200 BC) was a Roman politician and general active during the Second Punic War. A plebeian son of a butcher, he was a populist...
    9 KB (1,077 words) - 11:54, 14 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Minerva
    important Roman goddess, she is highly revered, honored, and respected. Marcus Terentius Varro considered her to be ideal and the plan for the universe personified...
    30 KB (3,534 words) - 16:29, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saturn (mythology)
    also Martianus Capella 1.58; Mueller (2010). The Roman theologian Marcus Terentius Varro listed Saturn among the Sabine gods.(p 139) See also the Etruscan...
    35 KB (4,186 words) - 14:10, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Third Servile War
    Crassus and after the rebels realized that the legions of Pompey and Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus were moving in to entrap them. The armies of Spartacus...
    55 KB (6,069 words) - 02:19, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Microbiology
    they were first observed, for example by the Jains in India and by Marcus Terentius Varro in ancient Rome. The first recorded microscope observation was of...
    29 KB (2,979 words) - 15:11, 30 March 2024