Gaius Julius Caesar (13 July 100 - 15 March 44 BCE), Roman statesman, general, author, famous for the conquest of Gaul (modern France and Belgium) and his subsequent coup d'état. He changed the Roman republic into a monarchy and laid…
Gaius Julius Caesar (13 July 100 - 15 March 44 BCE), Roman statesman, general, author, famous for the conquest of Gaul (modern France and Belgium) and his subsequent coup d'état. He changed the Roman republic into a monarchy and laid…
Caesar's Gallic War: Caesar's reports on his conquests in Gaul. The Roman senator Cicero thought it was a splendid text, and although we can recognize the book's bias, it still is a remarkably efficient piece of writing.Introduction
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Gaius Julius Caesar (13 July 100 - 15 March 44 BCE), Roman statesman, general, author, famous for the conquest of Gaul (modern France and Belgium) and his subsequent coup d'état. He changed the Roman republic into a monarchy and laid…
Caesarea Maritima: Roman city, capital of of the province Judaea/Palaestina.History
Hippodrome
Phoenician port (Migdal Šoršon)
Hellenistic: Sidonian outpost named "Strato's Tower" (259 BCE:…
Caesarea-Mazaca: ancient town in central Anatolia, modern Kayseri.History
Hellenistic relief of a soldier
Cappadocia
Settled in the Bronze Age, named Mazaka in Hattic,…
Joseph, surnamed Caiaphas: the Jewish high priest between 18 and 37 CE, best known for his role during the trial of Jesus of Nazareth. The name Caiaphas is Greek and renders the Aramaean Qayyapâ or Qapâ'; his real name was…
Calanus (Indian: Kalyana): Indian sage who accompanied Alexander the Great.
Gogdara, relief showing a saddhu
In April 326, the Macedonian king Alexander…
Babylonian Calendar: the first calendar to use the "Cycle of Meton".Like all other calendars, the Babylonian calendar had twelve lunar months (about 354 days) and a problem to make these fit the solar year (about 365 days). In the western…
Jewish Calendar: derived from a Babylonian model, the Jewish calendar combines lunar months and solar years, and is still in use.The Jewish year consists of twelve months of each 29 or 30 days. A regular year, therefore, has 354 days…
Caligula: emperor of the Roman world (37-41).
Caligula
Names:
31 August 12 CE: Gaius Caesar Germanicus
Autumn 14: nickname Caligula ('soldier's boot')
18 March 37:…
Callisthenes of Olynthus (ca.370-327): early biographer of Alexander the Great.
Aristotle, Callisthenes' teacher
When Alexander, the young king of Macedonia, invaded Asia…