These Liberators were aiming to liberate Rome from Totalitarianism, but their resistance ended at the Battle of Philippi. Under Julius' adopted son Octavian, the Republic breathed its last and the monstrous Roman Empire emerged as Octavian became the divine Emperor Augustus. Half a century later (...
Tourists and students travelled regularly between Persia, Egypt, Israel and Hellas, and contemporary records even show Buddhist missionaries from India in the Rome of Augustus. Merchant fleets and caravans put locals anywhere in touch with the world at large — the noun εμπορος (emporos...
Though it sounds like a chopped-off variation of Olivia, which means olive, the distinctively attractive Livia has been an independent name since the days of the ancient Romans, when it belonged to Livia Drusilla—the powerful wife of the Emperor Augustus—and is still commonly heard in modern...
Though it sounds like a chopped-off variation of Olivia, which means olive, the distinctively attractive Livia has been an independent name since the days of the ancient Romans, when it belonged to Livia Drusilla—the powerful wife of the Emperor Augustus—and is still commonly heard in modern...
Appius Claudius (505 - 480 BC), the empire founder, was born long before Claudius (10 BC-AD 54), the emperor who was believed to have some kind of disability. So the name obviously precedes the famous disabled bearer, both in History and in his personal life, since his disabilities ...
and since every monarchy is always the result of a higher nobility growing out of a primary nobility which self-organizes out of any human collective, the first emperor of Rome, namely Augustus, was originally endowed with the nomen Octavius, who plebeian gens was elevated to that of patrician...
From 12 BC to 1 BC the consul governed peoples mostly in Galatia and Cilicia, after which he became the rector (that is the "corrector"; tutor and guide) of young Gaius Caesar, who would have succeeded emperor Augustus had he not succumbed to injuries on campaign, and been replaced by ...
Nova has the feel of both newness, from its meaning, and great energy as an astronomical term for a star that increases suddenly in brightness before fading. Origin: Hebrew Meaning: "pledged to God" Description: Elizabeth is one of the most popular girls' names of all time, the female equ...
of the domestication process. The historical Herodians obviously adopted this name to signify their allegiance to the great shepherd inRome: emperorAugustus, but the literary character named Agrippa in the Book of Acts, equally obviously, signifies the slow turn of the formal governments of Rome ...
emperor withsatan. That obviously leads to some theoretical challenges (see our article onAugustus), but still, the existential tension between Rome andJew(between centralized empire and free individual) was revisited in the 20th century, when Hitler based the house style of his Nazi empire on ...