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Ammianus Marcellinus on Libyan Incursions
The Austuriani, or, as the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330-c.400) prefers to call them, Austoriani, were a federation of Libyan tribes that became increasingly dangerous for the Roman Empire in the fourth century. In his Roman History 28.6, he describes…Ammianus Marcellinus on the tsunami of 365
The tsunami of 365 CE: a disastrous tidal wave that destroyed the ports of many Roman cities in northern Africa.In 365 CE, on the twenty-first of July, the southern shores of the Mediterranean were hit by a tidal wave –…Amorges
Our main source for the history of the Peloponnesian War is the Athenian author Thucydides, but he sometimes makes mistakes. One of these is a blind eye for Persian influence on the war. As a consequence, he underestimated the importance…
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Antiochus Cylinder
The Cylinder of Antiochus I Soter from the Ezida Temple in Borsippa is one of the Mesopotamian chronicles written in ancient Babylonia in the Hellenistic Period. It describes how the Seleucid crown prince Antiochus, the son of king Seleucus Nicator, rebuilt the…
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