Gaius Dillius Vocula (†70 CE): Roman army commander, one of Rome's heroes during the Batavian revolt (69-70).Gaius Dillius Vocula was born in Córdoba in Andalusia as the son of an otherwise unknown Roman knight named Aulus Dillius. His son probably…
Dio Chrysostom (c.40 - after 112) was a Greek politician and philosopher, and one of the first representatives of the Second Sophistic. In 111, he was accused of lèse-majesté. As it happens, the governor who preseded this trial was Pliny…
Diocletian: emperor of the Roman world (r. 284-305).
Diocletian
Names:
22 December 245: Diocles
20 November 284: Imperator Caesar, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus Augustus
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Diodorus of Sicily: Greek historian, author of the Library of World History. His activities can be dated between 60 and 30 BCE.In May 334, Alexander the Great invaded Asia with a large army - larger, for example, than the army…
During the Olympic Games of 324, Alexander announced that all exiles in all Greek towns were allowed to return. It is questionable whether he was entitled to do this, even though he was leader of the Corinthian league. The result…
The Greek author Diodorus of Sicily describes the last plans of Alexander the Great in chapter 18.4.1-6 of his Library of World history.
The translation below was made by M.M. Austin.
Tyre (Phoenician רצ, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean.In the winter of 320/319, Ptolemy captured Tyre: a violation of the Triparadisus agreement. Antigonus the One-Eyed, who ought to have been in control…
In the summer of 336, Darius III Codomannus became king of Persia. This brave man was to be the last king of the ancient empire, because he was defeated by Alexander the Great.
Darius became king after a very troubled succession.…
In May 311, Seleucus unexpectedly captured Babylon, the greatest city in the world and one of the most important parts in the empire of Antigonus Monophthalmus. In the autumn of 311, he sent his son Demetrius to expell Seleucus. His…