By Santiago Posteguillo
Circo Máximo, de Santiago Posteguillo, que ha escrito otras obras de narrativa histórica como Las Legiones Malditas o los angeles traición de Roma, es los angeles segunda parte de los angeles trilogía de Trajano, que comenzó con Los asesinos del emperador, un relato impactante, descomunal, descrito con un trepidante pulso narrativo destinado a trasla dar al lector a l. a. Roma imperial de los césares. Santiago posteguillo se ha convertido en el autor español de referencia de l. a. novela histórica sobre Roma y el mundo antiguo. Bienvenidos al mundo de Marco Ulpio Trajano. Circo Máximo es l. a. historia de Trajano y su gobierno, guerras y traiciones, lealtades insobornables e historias de amor imposibles. Hay una vestal, un juicio, inocentes acusados, un abogado especial, mensajes cifrados, códigos secretos, batallas campales, fortalezas inexpugnables, asedios sin fin, dos aurigas rivales, el Anfiteatro, los gladiadores y tres carreras de cuadrigas. Hay también un caballo especial, diferente a todos, leyes antiguas olvidadas, sacrificios humanos, amargura y terror, pero también destellos de nobleza y esperanza, como l. a. llama de Vesta, que mientras arde preserva a Roma. Sólo que hay noches en las que los angeles llama del Templo de Vesta tiembla. l. a. rueda de l. a. Fortuna comienza entonces a girar. En esos momentos, todo puede pasar y hasta l. a. vida del propio Trajano, aunque él no lo sepa, corre peligro. Y, esto es lo mejor de todo, ocurrió: hubo un complot para asesinar a Marco Ulpio Trajano
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Although the latest species, such as the famous Smilodon fatalis from Rancho la Brea, disappeared “only” ten thousand years ago, the earliest mammalian sabertooths lived some 50 million years ago (or Ma) in the Eocene of North America. 2). Second, all sabertooths were synapsids – that is, they belonged to the large group of vertebrates that includes both the mammals and the mammal-like reptiles. ” In mammals, that opening corresponds to the large area in the side of the skull where the temporalis muscle attaches to the parietal bone.
Apart from their fearsome-looking upper fangs, the shape of the rest of the dentition of sabertooths shows that they fed almost exclusively on meat. They were “hypercarnivores,” meaning that their dentitions were so specialized for cutting meat that they had lost most of their ability to deal with other food items, such as bone or vegetable matter. Many modern mammalian predators, including wolves and bears, are more versatile, with dentitions that are suited to crushing bones, crunching insects, and processing vegetable matter.
A scene in the natural trap of Batallones-1 (Spain), during the Vallesian (late Miocene, some nine Ma). Two sabertooths of the species Machairodus aphanistus snarl at each other over the carcass of a rhinoceros. The floor of the cavity is littered with the bones of animals that had been trapped previously. 5. A forest scene in the European Villafranchian (late Pliocene), with the felid sabertooth Megantereon cultridens. The body proportions of this animal indicate that it was a good climber and would have preferred forested environments.