Many works ofphilosophyare classed as literature. TheDialoguesofPlato(4th centurybc) are written with great narrative skill and in the finest prose; theMeditationsof the 2nd-century Roman emperorMarcus Aureliusare a collection of apparently random thoughts, and the Greek in which they are written ...
Louis I was a Carolingian ruler of the Franks who succeeded his father, Charlemagne, as emperor in 814 and whose 26-year reign (the longest of any medieval emperor until Henry IV [1056–1106]) was a central and controversial stage in the Carolingian expe
During the Greek and Roman empires, these ancient gold coins consistently had high purity of 95 percent or more. Ancient silver coins had an equally high purity until the Roman emperor Nero lowered the silver content, which ultimately led silver coins to contain as little as 2.5 percent silver...
After this Caesarea became the capital of the province renamed Syria-Palaestina by the emperor Hadrian. Under theByzantine Empireit was capital of the province of Palaestina Prima. The church historian and biblical topographer Eusebius (c. 260/264–c. 340) served as bishop of Caesarea. The city...