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 ...
As everybody back then knew, this term was originally coined to describe Rome's first and initial emperor: Augustus, son of the deified Julius Caesar, whose assassination cleared the way for the hated Empire, in which everybody was a slave bound to the emperor. Christ (which means Anointed...
Octavian became emperor Augustus and general Rufus was executed. The prefect of Judea from 12-14 AD, that's during the youth of Jesus, was called Annius Rufus. A first century historian was called Quintus Curtius Rufus. He had written a biography of Alexander the Great, most likely in the...
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...
release of the popular indie filmJuno, this lively but strong Roman goddess name has held new potential as a baby name. Currently in the UK Top 500 and used in The Netherlands too, Juno is on the rise in the US - and is 15 times more popular than it was before the release of the...
"an emperor, a ruler, a dictator," late 14c.,cesar, fromCæsar, originally a surname of the Julian gens in Rome, elevated to a title after Caius JuliusCaesar(100 B.C.E.-44 B.C.E.) became dictator; it was used as a title of emperors down to Hadrian (138 C.E.). The name...
(Christ’s birth) was said to be the 28th year after Augustus became the emperor of Rome.Today,this calculation seems to be incorrect.Historians believe that Christ was actually born four years before this date,but changing the calendar now would only cause confusion around the world because ...
Julius Caesar was hailed as “God made manifest and universal Saviour of human life”, and his successor Augustus was called the “ancestral God and Saviour of the whole human race” (Man and his Gods, Homer Smith, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1952). Emperor Nero (54-68), whose ...
October, which was the 8th month in old calendar, became October after the reform. As September, although the calendar had been reformed, it still remains its original name. The English word October derives from the Latin Octo, which means eight. November Since the emperor of Rome Augustus an...
Octavian, who was Julius' adopted son, went back to Rome and worked himself onto the throne of his father as emperor Augustus, which means Glorious One. The Glorious One To ensure the effectiveness of his own pending dictatorship, Octavian had swiftly declared the deceased Julius a divinity, ...