Siege of Syracuse (414-413): one of the most important campaigns during the Peloponnesian War. A well-equipped Athenian army blundered into disaster, was annihilated.
Sicily
It is tempting…
Syrian War: conflict between Rome and the Seleucid empire (192-188).Course of events
Antiochus III the Great
War became inevitable after Titus Quinctius…
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 disastrous rebellion, the rabbis called…
Tacitus (c.55-c.120): Roman historian, author of a/o the Histories and the Annals.Early Career
Roman official, first quarter of the second century
Tacitus…
Tacitus: emperor of the Roman world (r. 275-276).
Tacitus
Names:
c.200: Marcus Claudius Tacitus
December 275: Imperator Caesar Marcus Claudius Tacitus Augustus
July 276: uncertain…
On 19-27 July 64, Rome was destroyed by a great fire: only four of its fourteen quarters remained intact. The emperor Nero was blamed by the Roman populace, and in turn blamed the Christians. The Roman historian Tacitus explains what…
Siege of Flevum: unsuccessful Frisian attack on a Roman fort in 28 CE, probably identical to Velsen.In 28, the Frisians, a Germanic tribe living in what is now called Holland and was then known as Germania Inferior, revolted against the…
After the battle in the Teutoburg Forest, the Roman commander Tiberius led several retaliatory campaigns, but he understood that the country beyond the Rhine could not be occupied and stopped the war. Late in 14, the Roman prince Germanicus resumed…
Takhmaspâda: Median general in Persian service, sent by king Darius I the Great against Tritantaechmes, a Sagartian who had continued the rebellion of the Median king Phraortes.In 522 BCE, the Achaemenid Empire was in a great crisis. King Cambyses was…