Oct 11, 2020 · The Livius.org website offers information on ancient history. There are currently 4381 pages. You will also find more than 10,700 original illustrations. You can search to find what you are looking for or browse through the articles using categories or tags; the articles listed after the map are just the most recent ones.

Apr 14, 2020 · Alexander the Great (*356; r. 336-323): the Macedonian king who defeated his Persian colleague Darius III Codomannus and conquered the Achaemenid Empire.During his campaigns, Alexander visited a.o. Egypt, Babylonia, Persis, Media, Bactria, the Punjab, and the valley of the Indus.In the second half of his reign, he had to …

Claudius Claudius. 1 August 10 BCE: Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus 25 January 41: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus 13 October 54: poisoned Refused title: Britannicus (43) Biography by Suetonius

Julius Caesar. On 15 March 44 BCE, the Roman dictator Julius Caesar was murdered. There are several accounts of this incident, but the most famous and probably most accurate is the one written by Caesar's biographer Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c.70-c.135), who seems to have had access to imperial archives and may have consulted eyewitness accounts.. The following fragment from his Lives of ...

Aug 13, 2020 · Statue, believed to represent Maussolus. Maussolus, the satrap of Caria, refounded Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum in southwestern Turkey) and made it his capital. In the Greek world, it was not unusual that a city founder (ktistes) received cultic honors and a tomb on the central square of the new town, and this also happened to Maussolus.After his death in 353 BCE, his wife Artemisia succeeded ...

Apr 14, 2020 · Firuzabad, Palace of Ardašir, Oculus. Susa, Statue of Darius, once erected in Egypt, but later brought to Susa. Susa, Achaemenid battlement. Persepolis, Apadana ...

Model of the "corvus" by Martin Lokaj. During the First Punic War (264-241), the Romans for the first time faced a naval power, Carthage.Fighting at sea was difficult, but the Romans employed a secret weapon, the corvus, to change a naval battle into a land battle.This was a movable bridge with a metal prong that could be dropped onto the deck of a Carthaginian ship.

Caesar Julius Caesar. With the Seventh, Eighth and Tenth legions, the Ninth was among the oldest units in the imperial Roman army. They were with Julius Caesar when he invaded Gaul in 58 BCE. The Roman commander mentions the Ninth Legion in his accounts of the battle against the Nervians.. During the civil war against Caesar's fellow-triumvir and rival Pompey, it fought in Hispania in the ...

Glazed brick panel with the god Aššur. The word Assyria is derived from mât Aššur, which means "the country of Aššur", Aššur being the deified capital of a kingdom between the rivers Tigris and Little Zab. The western part of Assyria consists of an alluvial plain, where irrigation enables agriculture; in the eastern part, the foothills of the Zagros, there is sufficient rainfall.

Aug 13, 2020 · Origin Mosaic of Halicarnassus' city goddess. In the year 26 CE, the inhabitants of the Roman province Asia wanted to build a temple for the emperor Tiberius.The historian Tacitus tells that when the representatives of several towns were arguing that their city offered the best location, the embassy from Halicarnassus declared that in their city, the temple could be built on a rock that had ...