Byzantium
There are 1517 items in Byzantium:
Roman Dacia
Dacia: country north of the Lower Danube, more or less identical to modern Romania. It experienced influences from the Thracians, Scythians, Greeks, and Celts and became a powerful kingdom, added as a province to the Roman Empire (below), abandoned to…Roman Law
Roman Law: the body of Roman legal sources, one of the most important set of texts from the ancient world. Page…
Portrait of a Roman man, c. 400 CE |
Portrait of a Roman, first half sixth century |
Roman Thrace
Thrace: Roman province in what is now Bulgaria.Roman Conquest 29/28 BCE: Moesian war of Crassus 11 CE: The Romans suppress a revolt of the Bessae 15 CE: Creation of the Moesian provinces along the Danube 26 CE: Poppaeus Sabinus suppresses a Thracian revolt c.30 CE: Novae…
Rome, Forum, Column of Phocas |
Rome, Lateran, Capella Sancta Sanctorum, Fresco of Augustine |
Rome, Pantheon
Pantheon: temple in Rome, one of the best-preserved buildings of the ancient world, dedicated to "the all-divine" (i.e., heaven). Rome's Pantheon The Pantheon…
Rome, SS Cosma e Damiano, Phoenix on a mosaic |
Rome, Via Appia
Via Appia: ancient road from Rome to Capua, Beneventum, and Brundisium. Via Appia near the Villa of the Quintilii Anyone traveling to…Sabratha
Sabratha (Greek Σáβραθα): Phoenician, Punic, and Roman town in northwestern Libya, famous for its theater. Sabratha, theater Like Lepcis Magna and Oea,…Sagalassus
Sagalassos (Greek Σαγαλασσός): Hellenistic and Roman city in Pisisia (southwestern Anatolia); modern Ağlasun.Hellenistic Age The hill on which the Sagalassians defended thei…