Aedile: Roman magistrate, responsible for the Games and the maintenance of the temples.The original tasks of the two plebeian aediles are unclear. The name suggests that they had something to do with an aedes ('shrine'), but the Greek translation agoranomos…
Aelia Flacilla (c.360 - 386): name of a Roman empress, wife of Theodosius I.Relatives
Aelia Flacilla
married to: Theodosius I
Sons:
Honorius
Arcadius
Daughter:
Pulcheria
Life
c.360?: Born, probably…
Lucius Aelius: between 136 and 138 caesar of the Roman emperor Hadrian.
Aelius Caesar
Names:
13 January 101: Lucius Ceionius Commodus
Summer 136: Lucius…
Aemilianus: emperor of the Roman world (autumn 253).
Aemilianus
Names:
207: Marcus Aemilius Aemilianus
August 253: Imperator Caesar Marcus Aemilius Aemilianus Augustus
October 253: lynched…
Aequi: ancient people, originally living in the western Apennines. Migrating to eastern Latium, they became one of the four main enemies of archaic Rome.
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Aeschines (c.390-c.315): Athenian politician and orator.
Aeschines
During the fourth century, the Greek towns were even more divided than in the fifth century,…
In the summer of 330, the Athenian politician Aeschines attacked his rival Demosthenes for the failure of the latter's anti-Macedonian policy. His speech is known as Against Ctesiphon.
M.M. Austin has translated the sections 132-134.
Aetolian League (Greek: Κοινὸν τῶν Αἰτωλῶν): confederation of Greek city states, focused on but not limited to western Greece. It was important in the third and early second centuries BCE.
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