Eutropius (c.320-c.390?): Roman historian, author of a very popular Short History of the Roman Empire.The translation of Eutropius' Short History offered here is by John Selby Watson and was published in 1886. The text was found at Tertullian.org. The notes…
Eutropius (c.320-c.390?): Roman historian, author of a very popular Short History of the Roman Empire.The translation of Eutropius' Short History offered here is by John Selby Watson and was published in 1886. The text was found at Tertullian.org. The notes…
Eutropius (c.320-c.390?): Roman historian, author of a very popular Short History of the Roman Empire.The translation of Eutropius' Short History offered here is by John Selby Watson and was published in 1886. The text was found at Tertullian.org. The notes…
Eutropius (c.320-c.390?): Roman historian, author of a very popular Short History of the Roman Empire.The translation of Eutropius' Short History offered here is by John Selby Watson and was published in 1886. The text was found at Tertullian.org. The notes…
Eutropius (c.320-c.390?): Roman historian, author of a very popular Short History of the Roman Empire.The translation of Eutropius' Short History offered here is by John Selby Watson and was published in 1886. The text was found at Tertullian.org. The notes…
Eye of the king (Old Persian Spasaka?): inspector in the Achaemenid empire. Sometimes called "eyes and ears".In his charming description of the youth of the founder of the Achaemenid empire, Cyrus the Great, the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus suggests…
Tyre (Phoenician רצ, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean.In 598/596 BCE, king Jehoiachin and the Jewish elite had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia. In the eleventh year, shortly after the…
In October 539 BCE, the Persian king Cyrus took Babylon, the ancient capital of an oriental empire covering modern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel. In a broader sense, Babylon was the ancient world's capital of scholarship and science. The subject…
Fadilla (159- after 190): Roman princess, daughter of the emperor Marcus Aurelius and Faustina II, sister of Commodus.Fadilla was the eighth child of Marcus Aurelius, the heir apparent of the emperorAntoninus Pius, and Faustina, who would give birth to six…
Faustina I (c.100-c.141): Roman empress, wife of the emperor Antoninus Pius.Relatives
Faustina I
Father: Marcus Annius Verus
Mother: Rupilia Faustina
Husband: Antoninus Pius
Son: Marcus…