Who destroyed the Persian Empire in the Hellenistic period? Who ruled during the fall of the Assyrian Empire? Who conquered the Roman Republic? Who took over the Babylonian empire? Who conquered Mesopotamia in 330 BC? Who were all the kings that ruled the Assyrian Empire?
Who were the enemies of the ancient Greeks? What Carthaginian commander destroyed the Roman Republic? Who conquered the Western Roman Empire? What did the Romans call the Carthaginians? How did Caesar treat the Gauls? What is the Struggle of Orders in ancient Rome?
The Roman Emperors: On March 15, 44 BC, Julius Caesar was stabbed to death on the floor of the Roman Senate. With the dictator of the Roman Republic dead, Rome fell into political chaos. A new ruler eventually emerged to take Caesar's place. ...
Taking the throne of the Roman Empire during a period of extreme strife (he passed in 69 CE, known as the "year of the four emperors"), Galba reigned for just seven months, during which he became unpopular with citizens and soldiers. According to Plutarch, in January of that year,...
Archaeologists hold the opinion that this contract is effective because they do not find any mark that the head was bitten by lions. Not only the city, but also the Roman civilization was built for a short time. We know that the Greece was destroyed by Rome but the origin of Roman ...
It was this same Paul who once persecuted and destroyed the church who wrote Romans for the benefit of the Jewish and Gentile believers living in Rome. He would eventually write 13, possibly 14 of the books in the New Testament. Though he was a great apostle, he suffered greatly for the...
Prior to Panaetius, most Stoics held that pneuma, or divine fire, was the fundamental element of the cosmos. They asserted that the universe would experience a cyclical process of annihilation and rebirth known as the conflagration, during which time everything would be destroyed, and the univer...
In it, Strabo famously describes Amanirenas as a “masculine woman with one eye destroyed.” Strabo writes that Petronius marched on Napata and destroyed it after capturing Qasr Ibrim, but some historians question that account. One clue is that the distance between the two cities was ...
Divided into 24 books, the epic poem tells the story of Odysseus, the king of the island of Ithaca, and his 10-year-long journey back home, following the 10-year-long Trojan War. Along the way, Odysseus's ships are destroyed by storms, he’s imprisoned for seven years, travels to ...
November 30, 2024 0 Temple Stones The Photo shows stones from the Second Temple in Jerusalem thrown by the Romans who destroyed the city in the 1st century AD. Robinson’s Arch is visible above the Herodian street in the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount. It was named after scholar ...