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 killed Tiberius Gracchus? Who succeeded Henry Halleck? Who succeeded Richard II in England? Who succeeded Edward V? Who succeeded Benito Juarez as president of Mexico? Who was emperor after Septimius Severus? Who killed Jochi Khan?
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 ...
Death in the ancient world was rarely a dignified prospect. While this was certainly true for ordinary people, kings and religious leaders died horribly as ...
aThe cousins Johon and Jesus grew to manhood, John in Judea and Jesus in the land of Galilee Now in the fifteenth year of the emperor Tiberius, when both John and Jesus were about thirty years old,John the son of Elizabeth and Zacharias left the desert country of his childhood and went ...
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...
Max, Duke, Gidget, Mel, Chloe, Pops, Buddy, Tiberius, Sweet Pea, Norman, Snowball, Katie, The Flushed Pets - "The Secret Life of Pets" Buster Moon, Rosita, Ash, Meena, Mike, Johnny, Eddie Noodleman, Gunter, Richard, Bob, Miss Crawly, Big Daddy, Rosita's Piglets, Crocodile, The Q...
During his reign, Vespasian helped reform the financial system and began many ambitious construction projects, most notably the Colosseum. Vespasian was also the first Roman emperor ever to be succeeded by his son. That father-son handoff would lay the groundwork for the Flavian Dynasty, a near...
In those days, a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. Phew! Finally, the beginning of the right story. By mentioning Augustus, Qurinias, and the first census, Luke...
Tacitus tells us that the Roman emperor Nero "inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class … called Christians.… Christus [Christ], from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus.…"...