Titus Livius or Livy (59 BCE - 17 CE): Roman historian, author of the authorized version of the history of the Roman republic.A large part of Livy's History of Rome since the Foundation is now lost, but fortunately we have…
Titus Livius or Livy (59 BCE - 17 CE): Roman historian, author of the authorized version of the history of the Roman republic.The Periochae are not the only summary of Livy's History: in the Egyptian town Oxyrhynchus, a similar summary…
Macedonia: ancient region and state, situated in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and northern Greece, best known because its king Alexander the Great (r.336-323) conquered the Persian Empire and inaugurated a new period in Greek history.Introduction
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Menander (342-291): Athenian playwright, author of many comedies, which are only fragmentary preserved and best known from Roman adaptations.
Menander
The comedies…
Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae: fifth-century regionary, i.e., a list of monuments and civil servants in the regions of a city (Constantinople).The Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae belongs to the ancient genre of "regionaries": a list of monuments and civil servants in the regions…