Herodian (c.170 - c.240): Greek historian, author of a History of the Roman Empire since the Death of Marcus Aurelius in which he describes the reign of Commodus (180-192), the Year of the Five Emperors (193), the age of the Severan…
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (c.480-c.429 BCE): Greek researcher, often called the world's first historian. In The Histories, he describes the expansion of the Achaemenid Empire under its kings Cyrus the Great (r.559-530), Cambyses (r.539-522), and Darius I the Great (r.522-486), culminating in Xerxes' expedition to Greece (480 BCE), which met with disaster…
Historia Augusta: modern name of a collection of (bogus) biographies of Roman emperors of the second and third centuries.The collection of biographies of Roman emperors called Historia Augusta consists of the lives of most rulers from Hadrian (117-138) to Carinus…
Simon ben Kosiba, surnamed Simon bar Kochba ("son of the star") was a Jewish Messiah. Between 132 and 135, he was the leader of the last resistance against the Romans. After the end of the desastrous rebellion, the rabbis called…
In the war between the Jews and the Romans of 66-70, the Jewish general Joseph son of Matthias defended Galilee against the Roman legions. After he had been defeated, he defected to his enemies, and advised the Roman general Vespasian.…
In 384, Martin of Tours had a meeting with the usurper-emperor Magnus Maximus, who was humiliated. It was an important event, marking the Church's ambition to gain control of the imperial court.
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Menander of Ephesus: Greek author of a history of Phoenicia.When he was writing the first books of his Josephus' Jewish Antiquities, the Greek-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus essentially retold the story of the Bible. He believed that the Jewish sacred literature…
The Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles are historiographical texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although they contain references to the earliest times, they deal especially with the second half of the second and the entire first millennium down to the first century BCE.
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Meteriola inscription: fifth-century tombstone of a Christian lady from Remagen.
The Meteriola inscription (13.7813)
Among the many delights of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum…