Simon ben Kosiba, surnamed Simon bar Kochba ("son of the star") was a Jewish Messiah. Between 132 and 135, he was the leader of the last resistance against the Romans. After the end of the disastrous rebellion, the rabbis called…
The Alexandrinian scientist Eratosthenes of Cyrene published his topographical studies in the third century BCE. They are now lost, but the geographer Strabo of Amasia quotes their conclusion in his Geography: Alexander was responsible for a new opinion about civilization…
Eridu Genesis: a Sumerian text dealing with the subject matter best known from the first chapters of the Bible.The Eridu Genesis is written on a Sumerian cuneiform tablet of which about two thirds are now lost. The missing parts can…
Simon ben Kosiba, surnamed Simon bar Kochba ("son of the star") was a Jewish Messiah. Between 132 and 135, he was the leader of the last resistance against the Romans. After the end of the disastrous rebellion, the rabbis called…
Simon ben Kosiba, surnamed Simon bar Kochba ("son of the star") was a Jewish Messiah. Between 132 and 135, he was the leader of the last resistance against the Romans. After the end of the disastrous rebellion, the rabbis called…
Simon ben Kosiba, surnamed Simon bar Kochba ("son of the star") was a Jewish Messiah. Between 132 and 135, he was the leader of the last resistance against the Romans. After the end of the disastrous rebellion, the rabbis called…
Eusebius of Caesarea (c.265-c.340): bishop of Caesarea in Palestine and author of a History of the Church and the Life of Constantine the Great.In Tyre, the Diocletianic persecution, which started in 303, was very serious. Eusebius mentions the martyrdom of…
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…