Meanwhile, the Senate was gathering at Pompey's theatre, likely to grant Caesar one final and particularly anti-Republican honor: the title of king of all Roman territory outside of Italy. The conspirators plan was rather simple, they snuck in daggers, some in boxes intended for documents, ot...
104 – 100 BC 2nd Servile War. The Senate had decreed to free the slaves from states which became allies of the Romans. However, the governor of Syracuse refuses the emancipation of his territory. Salvio, taking after Eunus, led a second slave rebellion but was defeated by Manius Aquillius...
WithCaesar's murder in 44 BC, Cleopatra murdered her brother and elevated her son Caesarion to the position of King. She next attached herself with what appeared to be the next great Roman power in Antony, but it was to be a fateful decision. Caesar's true heir, Octavian, eventually came...
Founded in 27 BC, the empire and its later continuation – the Byzantine Empire – finally collapsed in 1453 AD when the great city of Constantinople was lost to the Ottomans. Due to the vast territory it encompassed and the incredible number of years it endured, the Roman Empire left ...
soldiers fighting for their families and territory. Duty was mandatory, something the honor driven early Romans didn’t need to be told though. In 483 BC, a Gaelic warlord and chieftain named Brennus invaded the newly formed republic. The entire Roman army was wiped out and the city sacked....
What Carcopino establishes very comprehensively, however, is that whenever one tries to locate Laurentum, it always turns out to be the same as Lavinium. The truth is that the people known as theLaurentes, occupying an extent of territory known as theager Laurens, had an urban centre called...
Beaten once by the Etruscans, beaten a second time by the Gauls, the Romans reformed as a powerful military state. They immediately went about reconquering Italy. They took out all remaining Etruscans plus any Gauls that had lingered in their territory. By 265 BC, Rome was now in control...
Burebista was a king of Dacia between 70 BC - 44 BC. Under his rule, he united Thracians over a large territory, from today's Moravia in the West, to the Bug river (Ukraine) in the East, and from Northern Carpathians to Southern Dionysopolis. Decebalus, a great king of Dacia, ul...
This view not only implies that the Romanians of today had origins of a more ancient nature than the Latinists would have you believe, but this manner of thinking also entitles the Romanians to a greater amount of territory - the Dacian kingdom of Burebista was almost twice as large as...
This means that old installations for water conduction found in loco had to be main- tained as if they had been prescribed by the law and no one could modify on their own ini- tiative the organization of a territory that had been existing for a long time. No doubt this also applied ...