Faustina II (c.130-176): Roman empress, wife of the emperor Marcus Aurelius.Relatives
Faustina II
Father: Antoninus Pius
Mother: Faustina I
Husband: Marcus Aurelius
children:
Domitia Faustina (30…
Fayaz Tepe: ancient Buddhist monastery near modern Termez (southern Uzbekistan).Early Bactria
Bactrian imitation of an Athenian drachm
Since the early Achaemenid age, Bactria…
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…
First Punic War (264-241 BCE): the first of three wars between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian Empire, in which Rome conquered Sicily.
Sicily
According to…
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…
Triumvir or tresvir: member of a college of three members. The expression is mostly used to describe the First Triumvirate (60 BCE; Pompey the Great, Crassus, and Julius Caesar) and Second Triumvirate (43 BCE; Marc Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian).
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Fiscus Judaicus ("Jewish tax"): a tax that the Jews had to pay to the temple of the Roman supreme god Jupiter Capitolinus after the destruction of their own temple in 70 CE.
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Flavian dynasty: second imperial dynasty of Rome, ruling from 69 until 96.
Vespasian (Hippo Regius)
The three Flavian emperors were
Vespasian
Titus
Domitian
The general prosperity…