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Naumachia (detail): an imaginative recreation by Ulpiano Checa, first exhibited in 1894.
The naumachia (in Latin naumachia, from the Ancient Greek ναυμαχία/naumachía, literally "naval combat") in the Ancient Roman world referred to both the staging of naval battles as mass entertainment, and the basin or building in which this took place.
The naumachia (in Latin naumachia, from the Ancient Greek ναυμαχία/naumachía, literally "naval combat") in the Ancient Roman world referred to both the...
The Naumachia Vaticana or Trajan's Naumachia (Latin: Naumachia Traiani), also referred to inaccurately as the Circus of Hadrian, was an ancient structure...
around 800 first received the name of "San Pellegrino in Naumachia", making reference to the naumachia built northwest of the Castel Sant'Angelo and dedicated...
those with ferocious beasts (venationes), reproductions of naval battles (naumachia), chariot races, athletic contests, theatrical performances by mimes,...
wrestling, and the pancratium. Aquatic displays, such as the mock sea battle (naumachia) and a form of "water ballet", were presented in engineered pools. State-supported...
Academy. Aequa Claudius – Class four student at the Academy. Attended the naumachia with Vis. Emissa Corenius – Class three student at the Academy. Spent...
pavements, etc., and the remains of a spacious edifice, commonly called a Naumachia, but the real purpose of which it is difficult to determine. Saracen Castle:...
Tudico. "La battaglia navale sul lago Fucino. La naumachia" (PDF). Retrieved 4 April 2021. "Naumachia". Retrieved 4 April 2021. Cassius Dio, Book LXI.33...
1632 the story of the battle was retold in couplets in Abraham Holland's Naumachia. Centuries later G. K. Chesterton revisited the conflict in his lively...
Augusta that fed into the Aqua Marcia. On the one hand, he says the Naumachia's supply is "nowhere delivered for consumption by the people... [but the...
who after the martyrdom takes the lead in burying St. Peter "near the Naumachia in the place called the Vatican." The text is framed as the tale of Paul's...
for the purpose of staging a Naumachia, a Roman-style gladiatorial sea battle staged for an audience. Riley's Naumachia, entitled, Those About to Die...
The Battle of Lade (Ancient Greek: Ναυμαχία τῆς Λάδης, romanized: Naumachia tēs Ladēs) was a naval battle which occurred during the Ionian Revolt, in...
Fourth Style wall painting with naumachia (triremes), a detail from a panel from the portico of the Temple of Isis in Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological...
Theatre of Balbus Theatre of Marcellus Theatre of Pompey Ludus Magnus Naumachia Vaticana Odeum of Domitian Saepta Julia Septizodium Stadium of Domitian...
Montbéliard Philip (d. aft. 1263) Guy (c. 1250–1304) m. Marie, Lady of Naumachia Philip of Ibelin (d. 1316) Hugh of Ibelin (d. aft. 1335) Hugh of Ibelin...
possibly to enable the nearby amphitheatre to be flooded rapidly to enable naumachia (mock naval battles) to be held. The spring still exists and is now the...
the brother of the printer, Henry Holland. His best known work is the Naumachia, a poem on the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Abraham Holland was one of the...
not suitable for drinking, however, and Augustus used it to fill his naumachia in Trastevere to allow the public to enjoy sham naval battles.[citation...
Max and Emil continued and added other attractions, including a type of naumachia that involved electro-mechanical effects and pyrotechnics. Max would later...
(small, choreography-based plays), tournaments, and a mock-sea battle or naumachia. Preparations involved the construction of a "Marriage room", a hall adjacent...
significant for its intended uses, being only a few months before the Naumachia Traiani, the vast, grandstand-encircled pool on west bank of the Tiber...
re-creations of famous sea battles. While Dio claims that both the purpose-built naumachia of Augustus and the amphitheatre itself were flooded for two separate...
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