“To the spirits of the dead: For Cornelia Frontina, who lived 16 years and 7 months, her father, Marcus Ulpius Callistus, freedman of the emperor, overseer in the armory of the Ludus Magnus, and Flavia Nice, his most virtuous wife, set up this [monument] for themselves, their freedmen...
After a fire destroyed much of Agrippa’s original construction in 80AD, Emperor Domitian carried out a reconstruction effort (the exact extent of which remains unknown). However, when a lightning strike burned the Pantheon down yet again in 110, the structure which Emperor Hadrian put in its...
Pre-history, Etruscans and Greeks Italy'sinitial settlements came very early in itshistory. Even the Neanderthals settled in Italy before they were pushed away by the modern Homo sapiens in the Neolithic Age. Primitive peoples, such as the Latins, Sabines and Umbrian, finally settled in the co...
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476, Constantinople became the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and was looked upon as the new Roman capital as political power gradually moved eastwards. After the fall of the Western Empire, the emperor in Constantinople became the sole Rom...
Who was the last Roman emperor?End of an Empire:Founded by the bastard son of a Vestal Virgin in 753 BCE, the Roman Empire had very humble beginnings. It would grow to be the largest empire in history, ruling over the Mediterranean and portions of the Middle East, Europe, and Africa. ...
This tremissis of the Roman emperor Anthemius was minted in Rome 467-472. It has two special features: a lower weight than the average for tremisses, and grafitti on the reverse of the coin. The great variety of the types and quantities of the minted solidi of Anthemius...
In the year of 122 AD, the Roman Emperor Hadrian visited his provinces in Britain. On his visit, the Roman soldiers told him that Pictish tribes from Britain's north (1) had attacked(attack) them. So Hadrian gave the order to build a protective wall across one of the narrowest parts ...
As a result, in 293 AD the emperor Diocletian divided the empire into four administrative units, each of which was to be ruled over by a tetrarch (a type of governor). While the tetrarchy did not last, this division of the empire would soon become permanent. Twenty-five years later,...
Facing internal opposition, Elagabalus adopted Severus Alexander as his heir and co-emperor in 222 AD, probably under the influence of Julia Maesa, their grandmother. This adoption was likely intended to secure Elagabalus's position, but it eventually led to his downfall. As the discontent with ...
London - Capital, Roman, Medieval: Although excavations west of London have revealed the remains of circular huts dating from before 2000 bc, the history of the city begins effectively with the Romans. Beginning their occupation of Britain under Emperor