Caracalla: emperor of the Roman world (r.211-217).
Caracalla
Names
4 April 186: Lucius Septimius Bassianus
Nicnames: Caracalla, Tarautas
4 April 196: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Caesar
Autumn…
Syrian Wars: series of conflicts between the Seleucid and Ptolemaic empires in the third and second centuries BCE; at stake was an area called Coele Syria, which is more or less identical to modern Israel, the Palestine territories, Lebanon, and…
Carinus: emperor of the Roman world (r. 283-285).
Carinus
Names:
c.250: Marcus Aurelius Carinus
November 282: Marcus Aurelius Carinus Caesar
Spring 283: Imperator Caesar Marcus…
Harran (Akkadian Harrânu, "intersecting roads"; Latin Carrhae): ancient city in Mesopotamia, famous for a temple of the Moon god Sin and the defeat of the Roman general Crassus in 53 BCE ("battle of Carrhae").
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Carthage (Phoenician Kart hadašt, "new city"): important ancient city, close to modern Tunis.Punic architecture
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Carthage's Constitution: prototype of what the ancient Greeks and Romans called a "mixed constitution".
Aristotle
In his Politics, the Macedonian scientist and…
Carthage (Phoenician Kart hadašt, "new city"): important ancient city, close to modern Tunis.Empire
Tanit on a Carthaginian coin
No doubt, the Carthaginian…
Carthago Nova (Phoenician Kart hadašt, "new city"): Carthaginian capital in Iberia, Roman city, modern Cartagena.
Iberia in the third century BCE
It is hard to…
Carus: emperor of the Roman world (r. 282-283).Names:
Milestone of Carus and his sons Numerian and Carinus
c.224: Marcus Aurelius Carus
September 282:…