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Roman Schnabel
Roman Schnabel is a German physicist working on quantum optics, squeezed light, and gravitational-wave detection, and professor of experimental physics at Universität Hamburg since 2014.
Roman school
The Roman school (Scuola Romana) is an art-history label for painters centered on Rome, descended from Raphael's workshop and maturing into Baroque classicism, also naming interwar Italian painters.
Roman Sebrle
Roman Šebrle, Czech decathlete born 1974 in Lanškroun, first man over 9000 points (9026 WR, Götzis 2001), 2004 Olympic champion with 8893 OR, world champion 2007, retired 2013.
Roman Senate
The Roman Senate (senatus) was Rome's council of elders, originally the king's advisory body and later the Republic's dominant organ. It held auctoritas, not legislative power; senatus consulta were advisory decrees guiding finance, foreign policy, and provinces.
Roman Shukhevych
Roman Shukhevych (Роман Шухевич) was a Ukrainian nationalist leader who commanded the Ukrainian Insurgent Army from 1943 and was killed by Soviet security forces near Lviv in 1950.
Roman signal station at Scarborough
Roman signal station at Scarborough: late 4th-century fortified watchtower (c. AD 370) on Scarborough Castle headland, North Yorkshire, part of a Yorkshire coastal chain with Huntcliff, Goldsborough, Ravenscar, and Filey; wooden tower on stone foundations, excavated 1920–24.
Roman Sikorski
Roman Sikorski (1920–1983) was a Polish mathematician at the University of Warsaw and the Polish Academy of Sciences, known for the Loomis–Sikorski theorem, the Sikorski extension theorem, and the Rasiowa–Sikorski lemma.
Roman Sludnov
Roman Andreyevich Sludnov, born 1980 in Omsk, is a Russian breaststroke swimmer who set the first sub-minute long-course 100-meter breaststroke record, 59.97 seconds, and won Olympic bronze at Sydney 2000.
Roman spring sanctuary near Heckenmünster
Roman spring sanctuary near Heckenmünster (Quellheiligtum Heckenmünster), a Gallo-Roman healing and pilgrimage complex at the Viktoriaquelle and Wallenborn sulphur springs in the German Eifel, used 1st-3rd centuries AD, excavated 1966/67, abandoned after the 275/276 invasions.
Roman Stocker
Roman Stocker, born 1975, is an Italian environmental engineer and microbial ecologist, professor of Groundwater and Hydromechanics at ETH Zurich since 2015, known for pioneering microfluidics-based study of marine microbes.
Roman succession law
Roman succession law is the body of Roman private law determining who took a deceased person's estate, developing through Twelve Tables, praetorian, and Justinianic regimes whose concepts survive in modern succession law.
Roman temple
Roman temple: a Romano-Italic temple type combining Etruscan high podium, frontal staircase and cella with Greek orders; sacrifice occurred at an open-air altar outside. Key examples: Jupiter Capitolinus (55 x 60 m, 509 BC), Venus and Roma.
Roman temple of Córdoba
The Roman temple of Córdoba (Templo Romano de Córdoba) is the remains of a large Roman temple in Córdoba, Spain, built in the 1st century A.D.
Roman the Great
Roman the Great (Роман Мстиславич) was a Rus' prince who united Galicia and Volhynia in 1199, seized Kiev in 1202, and died in battle against the Poles in 1205.
Roman theater at Amiternum
Roman theater at Amiternum, a 1st-century BC theater in the ancient Sabine-Roman city of Amiternum near San Vittorino, L'Aquila, Italy, with an 80-meter cavea, in use until the 4th century AD.
Roman theater at Antium
Roman theater at Antium (Anzio, Italy): small 1st-century AD theater on the Santa Teresa hill, 30 m cavea, 11 cunei, opera mista, possibly an odeon, later reused for pottery kilns; badly preserved.
Roman theater at Asculum
Roman theater at Asculum: first-century AD theater in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, at the foot of the Colle dell'Annunziata, unearthed 1932–1959 and still under excavation, with an opus sectile pavement.
Roman theater at Benevento
The Roman theater at Benevento (Teatro Romano di Benevento) is a Roman theater in Benevento, Italy, inaugurated around 125 to 128 AD and dedicated to Emperor Hadrian.
Roman theater at Cales
Roman theater at Cales (Calvi Risorta, Caserta, Campania): early free-standing Roman theatre, cavea 75.4 m, orchestra 27.4 m, capacity roughly 3,600-5,000; built 2nd-1st century BC, destroyed by 4th-century AD earthquakes.
Roman theater at Carthage
Roman theater at Carthage: Antonine-era Roman theatre (mid-2nd century AD) on the Odeon hill, Tunisia; 106 m cavea, 10,000 seats, Vitruvian plan, discovered 1904 by Gauckler, now the International Festival of Carthage venue.
Roman theater at Col. Augusta Raurica
Roman theater at Col. Augusta Raurica (Augst, Switzerland), also called the Augst theatre or Szenisches Theater: best-preserved ancient theater of its kind north of the Alps, rebuilt through theater, semi-amphitheatre, and third-theater phases (70/80 to 170/180 CE), cavea about 107 m across with semicircular-buttress substructure.
Roman theater at Ferentinum
Roman theater at Ferentinum, in Ferentino, Lazio: Trajanic-Hadrianic (2nd century AD) hillside theater, 54 m cavea, about 3,000 spectators, discovered by Alfonso Bartoli; distinct from the theater of Ferento near Viterbo.
Roman theater at Gosbecks
Roman theater at Gosbecks, Colchester, Essex: largest known Roman theater in Britain, c.5,000 seats, timber then turf-and-masonry phases (c.AD 100-200), dismantled 3rd century; part of Scheduled Monument 1002180.
Roman theater at Grumentum
Roman theater at Grumentum: Julio-Claudian theater in the Roman city of Grumentum (Grumento Nova, Basilicata), cavea 65 m, orchestra 23.5 m, renovated 2nd-3rd c. AD; distinct from the city's late-republican amphitheater.
Roman theater at Helikore/Nicaea
Roman theater at Helikore/Nicaea (Iznik, Bursa, Turkey): Roman-period theater built on flat ground entirely on vaults, documented in Pliny the Younger's letters to Trajan, about 24 m high, 10,000 capacity, excavated since 1980.
Roman theater at Helvia Ricina
Roman theater at Helvia Ricina (Villa Potenza, Macerata, Marche, Italy): early 1st-century AD brick theater, cavea about 72 m in diameter, two tiers, roughly 2,000 seats, best-preserved ruin of the ancient city.
Roman theater at Iguvium
Roman theater at Iguvium, the Roman theater of Gubbio, Umbria; built mid-1st century BC, completed about 20 BC by Gnaeus Satrius Rufus; limestone, two arcade orders, cavea 70 m across; later fortress and quarry, excavated since 1900.
Roman theater at Interamnia Praetuttiorum
Roman theater at Interamnia Praetuttiorum, the ancient theater of Teramo, Italy. Nearly 77 m in diameter, seating about 2,500, inaugurated early 1st century AD, identified as a theater by Francesco Savini in 1918, distinct from the nearby 2nd-century amphitheater.
Roman theater at Iol Caesarea
Roman theater at Iol Caesarea (Cherchel, Algeria), built under Juba II, 130 m cavea, marble scaenae frons, later converted into an amphitheater; little remains above ground today.
Roman theater at Italica
Roman theater at Italica (Santiponce, Seville, Spain), built under Augustus and enlarged mid-1st century AD; cavea about 77 m across, capacity near 3,000; excavated from 1970, restored 2011, opened to visitors December 2025.