Prominent pro-plebeian leaders like Tiberius Gracchus (133 BC), Gaius Gracchus (121 BC), and Publius Clodius Pulcher (52 BC) were assassinated, alongside many of their supporters. In this way, Roman politics devolved into a zero-sum struggle where the defeated often faced death.The use of ...
empire. After the death of his son in 23 AD, Tiberius began to allow his advisor, Sejanus, to act on his behalf, and after 27 AD, many historians regard the last years (between six and ten years) of his reign as being filled with terror and mad behavior. He was assassinated in 37...
This is an historic piazza in Rome (it was once the main site for public executions), and used to be the main city center market (it is still a market but you will now find many stalls geared towards tourists.) Today it's also know for its nightlife....
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When Domitian was assassinated, Marcus Cocceius Nerva (Nerva) finally granted some relief to Christians and Jews: Nerva also released all who were on trial for maiestas and restored the exiles; moreover, he put to death all the slaves and the freedmen who had conspired against their masters...
were located in such as a zoo, lighthouse, and a huge library that contained thousands of scrolls before it was destroyed by a fire. Many other cities in Alexander’s empire were also named after him (Ellis and Esler 139-40). Alexander’s intentions to spread Hellenistic culture were ...
There were traders who got back to Szechwan [Sichuan] half-fearing that their Tibetan women had given them slow-acting poison, from which they would eventually die; so at all costs they sought to return to the mountains to receive the antidote before it was too late. “Every winter many ...