Governors: senators (or knights) who ruled the provinces of the Roman empire.The first Roman province, Sicily, was conquered after the First Punic War (241 BCE), and the Senate decided that it had to be ruled by a praetor. This meant…
Homosexuality: sexual attraction to persons of the same sex. In ancient Greece, this was a normal practice.Introduction
Zeus and Ganymedes
Violent debate,…
Gylippus (Greek: Γυλιππος) : Spartan commander, famous for his exploits during the siege of Syracuse (414-413 BCE).
Fifth-century hoplite.
Gylippus was the son…
Hadrian: emperor of the Roman world (r. 117-138).
Hadrian (Hippo Regius)
Names:
24 January 76: Publius Aelius Hadrianus
11 August 117: Imperator Caesar Trajanus…
Hadrumetum (Greek: Ἀδρύμητος): Punic-Roman port in Africa, modern Sousse, second city in Roman Africa.Hadrumetum
Portrait of a Roman man
c.800 BCE Founded…