Year of the Four Emperors: A Visual Timeline 📅 68 AD April: Galba, governor of Hispania Tarraconensis, and Vindex, governor of Gallia Lugdunensis, rebel against Emperor Nero.May: The Rhine legions defeat and kill Vindex in Gaul.June 8: The Senate declares Nero a public enemy.June...
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...
The emperor in the East, Licinius, maintained an adversarial relationship with Constantine for many years, which included two short wars for Imperial dominance. Licinius seems to have maintained more support for traditional pagan customs, and Constantine may have resisted complete Christian conversion i...
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with biblical quotations. Though devoted to church ritual and personal prayer, he was atenaciousand realistic politician, not adverse to alliances with heathen powers. Usually in poor health, he yet performed for 22 years the office of the itinerant king, riding on horseback through his dominions...
On the eve of the Reformation the relation ofchurch and stateshaped much of the history of Roman Catholicism, as it had done since the time of the emperorConstantine. In most of the states of Western Christendom, the 15th century was a time of awakening nationalconsciousness, whose particularit...
The Dialogues of Plato (4th century bce) are written with great narrative skill and in the finest prose; the Meditations of the 2nd-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius are a collection of apparently random thoughts, and the Greek in which they are written is eccentric. Yet both are classed...
Fine examples of wood carving are panels with biblical scenes on the 5th-century door of the church of Santa Sabina on the Aventine. Many types of carving in precious stones were practiced by Roman-age craftsmen, and it is to them that the credit goes for the majority of intaglios that ...
Although the formal condemnation of its tendencies did not come until 1907, four years after his death, Leo made his opposition to this trend clear by the establishment of the Pontifical Biblical Commission as a monitor over the work of scriptural scholars. His conservative and centralizing ...
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