Antiochus XIII Asiaticus: name of a Seleucid king, ruled from 69 to 64.Successor of: Tigranes II the Great of Armenia
Relatives
Father: Antiochus X Eusebes Philopator
Mother: Cleopatra V Selene
Main deeds
c.75: Death of Philip I Philadelphus, king of a Seleucid Empire that ha…
Antipater (399-319): supreme commander of the Macedonian forces in Europe during the eastern campaign of Alexander the Great, later regent for Alexander's mentally unstable brother Philip III Arridaeus.Antipater was born in 399 BCE as the son of a Macedonian nobleman…
Antipyrgon or Antipyrgos (Greek ᾽Αντίπυργον or ᾽Αντίπυργος, "fortress"): Byzantine fort in the Cyrenaica, modern Tobruk.
Tobruk, view
In the fifth century CE, new…
Anti-Semitism is the idea that people who speak a Semitic language belong to an inferior race. This nineteenth-century idea is mistaken, because there is no link between language and race; besides, the concept of "race" is epistemologically weak and probably…
Anti-Semitism is the idea that people who speak a Semitic language belong to an inferior race. This nineteenth-century idea is mistaken, because there is no link between language and race; besides, the concept of "race" is epistemologically weak and probably senseless.…
Antonia Minor (36 BCE - 37 CE): name of a Roman princess.Relatives
Antonia Minor
Father: Mark Antony
Mother: Octavia
Married to: Drusus
Son: Germanicus
Daughter: Livia…
Titus Aurelius Antoninus and Titus Aelius Aurelius (149): Roman princes, sons of Marcus Aurelius.Titus Aurelius Antoninus ("Antoninus") and his twin brother Titus Aelius Aurelius ("Aelius") were the second and third child of Marcus Aurelius, the heir apparent of the emperorAntoninus Pius,…
Antoninus Pius: emperor of the Roman world (r.138-161).
Antoninus Pius (Athens)
Names:
19 September 86: Titus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius (Arrius?) Antoninus
25 January 138:…
Marcus Antonius Felix: Roman governor of Judaea (52-58). He is also known as Claudius Felix.Marcus Antonius Felix was a brother of Marcus Antonius Pallas, a freedman and a powerful courtier of the emperor Claudius. He was so influential that he…
Marcus Antonius Julianus: Roman governor of Judaea (66-70).Marcus Antonius Julianus is mentioned as procurator of Judaea by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. Julianus' governorship started during the great anti-Roman insurrection of 66; he succeeded Gessius Florus, who had not been…