Tag: Roman Empire

Ancient Rome, with its grandeur and historical significance, stands as a monumental chapter in human civilization. This post is your key to unlocking the secrets of Ancient Rome, offering a comprehensive guide to its history, culture, societal structures, and enduring legacy that echoes through the ...

The Constitutio Antoniniana, also known as the Edict of Caracalla, was a monumental legal reform enacted in 212 CE by the Roman Emperor Caracalla. This edict extended Roman citizenship to nearly all free men within the vast Roman Empire, transforming the social and legal landscape of the ancient wor...

When in 64 BC Pompey descended from Cappadocia into northern Syria he needed little more than assume sovereignty on behalf of Rome. Ever since the collapse of the kingdom of the Seleucids sixty years previously, Syria had been ruled by chaos. Roman order was hence welcomed. The acquisition of Syria ...

Marius, Vatican Museums, Vatican City Marius was of humble beginnings, having been born near the town of Arpinum in Latium. First serving in Spain, Marius was essentially a military man. He did not hold any public office until he was voted to the position of Tribune of the People in 119 BC.In 115 BC...

Caesar's early LifeCaesar goes into ExileCaesar returns from ExileCaesar in SpainCaesar allies with Pompey and CrassusThe First TriumvirateCaesar becomes Governor of GaulCaesar defeats the HelvetiansCaesar defeats the GermansCaesar defeats the NerviiCaesar launches Attacks on Germany and BritainGaul...

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Lectures The Geography of ItalyThe EtruscansThe Roman RepublicRoman Expansion and the Punic WarsThe Civil WarThe Rise of Julius CasearInstructional Goal: Students will know the facts surrounding the rise of Julius Caesar to power and understand how he transformed Rome into an empire. I. With Marius ...

When the Social War had broken out, Rome was fully occupied with its own affairs. Mithridates VI, king of Pontus, used Rome's preoccupation to invade the province of Asia. Half of the province of Achaea (Greece), Athens taking the lead, rose against its Roman rulers, supported by Mithridates.When Su...

Publius Aelius Hadrianus, called Hadrian, was Roman emperor from AD 117 until 138. He regarded his 20-year reign as a golden age of peace and prosperity, comparable to that of his great predecessor Augustus more than 100 years earlier (see Augustus). Monuments to Hadrian's reign are the Tivoli villa...

In the treaty of 348 BC Carthage had undertaken to respect all Latin territory and coast towns as a Roman sphere of influence, and granted to Roman traders admission to the ports of her dominions of Africa, Sardinia and Sicily, as well as of Carthage itself. So too were Roman ships of war to enjoy a...

The atrocities of the First Slave War were anything but forgotten when in 103 BC the slaves of Sicily dared to revolt again. That after the cruelty in the aftermath of the first conflict they dared to rise again, hints how bad their conditions must have been.They fought so stubbornly that it took Ro...

For several years after the defeat of Antiochus, Rome was involved in no foreign wars in the east. But the uneasiness of the populations under her power grew. Philip V of Macedon continued to plot and scheme, but dared not risk another conflict with Rome. But in 179 BC Phlip V died and his son Perse...