Tiberius Claudius Nero's father was lucky to escape execution by Octavian Caesar after the siege of Perusia in 40 BC. His parents took the infant Tiberius and fled from the blood-chilling vengeance of the future Emperor Augustus. As they made their perilous escape from Italy nobody gave a ...
Who was Hadrian? 1. What do the lives of Cato the Elder and Scipio Aemilianus illustrate? 2. How did Gaius Marius transform the Roman military? Who was Emperor Hadrian? Who was Tiberius? Who was Priscus? What is Thebes? Who was Uriah the Hittite?
Who was succeeded by the Flavian dynasty? Who killed Tiberius Gracchus? Who assigned Sulla command of the war against Mithridates? Who tried to kill Heinrich Himmler? Who founded the Knights Hospitaller? Who killed Marcus Aurelius? Who was assassinated by the Roman Senate?
Caesar’s “Gallic Wars” were written around 100-44 B.C. The copies we have today are dated 1,000 years after he wrote it. We have ten copies. When it comes to the New Testament, written between 50-100 A.D, there are more than 5,000 copies. All are within 50-225 years of th...
Luke 3 John the Baptist Prepares the Way 1In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar—when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene— 2during the high-priesthood of An...
assuming the name Tiberius Julius Caesar. The emperors after Tiberius would continue this blended dynasty of both families for the following thirty years; historians have named it the Julio-Claudian dynasty. His relationship to the other emperors of this dynasty was as follows: he was the stepson...
Tiberius Caesar Augustus In ancient Rome, few emperors were better at acquiring land for the empire than Tiberius Caesar Augustus. Rome’s second emperor owes his place on this list solely due to his military conquests. As an emperor and politician, Tiberius is largely considered to have been ...
Julia Livia (c.7–43 AD), sometimes referred to as Julia Drusi Caesaris filia (Julia, daughter of Drusus Caesar), was the daughter of Drusus Julius Caesar and Livilla, and granddaughter of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. She was also a first cousin of the emperor Caligula, and niece of th...
So Josephus said that the Zealots were the instruments by which the temple was burnt. To confirm this, here’s what Titus said in his speech to the Zealots soon after the temple burned down: “When I came near your temple, I again departed from the laws of war, and exhorted you to...
Who was killed in the Pottawatomie Massacre? Who saved the Jews in the Holocaust? Who killed Julius Caesar? Who took over the Austrian Empire after the archduke was assassinated? Who killed Marat during the French Revolution? Who did Lee Harvey Oswald kill?