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| | Rome and Romania, Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, etc. |
 | | The very same institutions, both Roman and Christian in sum and detail, that failed in the West in the face of the German threat, did just fine in the East, long outlasting, and in two dramatic cases defeating, the German successor kingdoms. | | | Paul Johnson in his A History of the Jews [HarperPerennial, 1988], Jews constituted as much as 10% of the population of the Roman Empire. | | | There is a possible connection, since the Ossetians are descendants of the Alans, and Marcus Aurelius had settled a tribe of Alans, the Iazyges, whom he had defeated in 175 and taken into Roman service, in the north of Britain, where many of them settled at Bremetenacum Veteranorum, south of Lancaster. |
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http://www.friesian.com/romania.htm
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| | Royalty.nu - The Roman Empire - Augustus Caesar, Emperor of Rome |
| | Despite his scandalous personal life, the emperor was a proponent of what we would call "family values"; he penalized people who failed to marry, rewarded those who had large families, and made it more difficult to get divorced. | | | Brings to life the ruthless power-seeking as the Roman republic collapsed, the unrest and conspiracies, and the struggles over imperial succession. | | | Fictional account of the life of Octavian, the shy, scholarly youth who became Caesar Augustus. |
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http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/Rome/Augustus.html
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| | Augustus, University of Saskatchewan |
| | As time wore on, his troops became ever more demoralized, in part due to the presence of Cleopatra in their camp: Roman soldiers did not like the idea of being the servants of a foreign queen (think of Livy's portrayal of Tanaquil). | | | Antony, Octavian could claim, had become the thrall of a depraved eastern monarch: he had "gone native" and (Octavian claimed) planned to reduce Rome to a mere subject state, transferring the capital of the empire to Egypt. | | | Tensions between Antony and Octavian began to reach a head in 35, when Antony formally repudiated Octavia, who had remained loyal to him despite the repeated humiliation to which he had subjected her. |
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http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/CourseNotes/Octavian.html
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| | Roman Emperors - DIR Caligula |
| | [[11]] As with conspiracies in general, there are suspicions that the plot was more broad-based than the sources intimate, and it may even have enjoyed the support of the next emperor Claudius, but these propositions are not provable on available evidence. | | | The most reasonable suggestion is that Gaius went north to earn military glory and discovered there a nascent conspiracy under the commander of the Upper German legions, Cn. | | | 324-26; see also E. Smallwood, The Jews under Roman Rule (Leiden, 1976), 187-200. |
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http://www.roman-emperors.org/gaius.htm
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| | Rome: Political Resources |
| | Jewish History Sourcebook: Jews and the Later Roman Law 315-531 CE This text is part of the Internet Jewish History Sourcebook. | | | Roman Chronology 343-265 B.C. Courtesy of George Mason University. | | | I have revised the article to include some new information, particularly on Titus' death. |
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http://intranet.dalton.org/groups/rome/RPol.html
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| | Roman Emperors - DIR Marcus Aurelius |
| | There was violence against them in 167, and perhaps the worst stain on Marcus' principate stemmed from the pogrom of Christians in Lugdunum in southern France in 177. | | | This was a practice which had been established by Hadrian but had been allowed to lapse by Antoninus. | | | The emperor died on March 7, but not before clearly indicating to magistrates and senate alike his desire that Marcus succeed him by having the statue of Fortuna, which had been in his bedroom, transferred to Marcus. |
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http://www.roman-emperors.org/marcaur.htm
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| | ROMAN ARMY BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| | Richmond, I.A., 'The Roman siegeworks of Masada, Israel' in: JRS 52 (1962), 142-155. | | | (Arguably the worst article on the Roman army ever) | | | Speidel, M.P., 'The rise of ethnic units in the Roman imperial army' in: ANRW II-3 (1975), 202-231. |
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http://members.tripod.com/~S_van_Dorst/biblio.html
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| | Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | For a discussion of the Emperor's claimed godhead, see "imperial cult". | | | The last of the Good Emperors, Marcus Aurelius, chose his natural son Commodus as his successor rather than adopting an heir. | | | He was the last Emperor to rule over a united empire; the distribution of the East to his son Arcadius and the West to his son Honorius after his death in 395 represented a permanent division. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_emperors
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| | Coinage |
| | There must have been senators who were offended by having to deal with Claudius’ Greek freedmen, which is no doubt behind the many slurs found in the writings of the ancient historians. | | | The various political executions that took place during his reign occurred from the ruthless necessity to maintain his regime. | | | Although the emperor’s freedmen had always been important figures at court under Claudius they assumed greater authority and the imperial bureaucracy grew, becoming a governing body in its own right. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7094/claud4.html
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| | The Roman Empire (27 B.C.-393 A.D.) Special Topics Page Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| | Plots and conspiracies, followed by a vicious round of executions, eventually led to his assassination in 96 A.D. The Five Good Emperors and the Age of the | | | Successors to the emperor were chosen from men of tried ability, and not according to the dynastic principle. | | | , who lived along the northern borders of the empire and who had long been recruited to serve as mercenaries in the Roman army, began to emerge as powerful political and military forces in their own right. |
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http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/roem/hd_roem.htm
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| | His theological and critical writings are extensive; among his best known works are | | | He passes his rule on to his three sons after his death. | | | This period is considered the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. |
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http://eawc.evansville.edu/chronology/ropage.htm
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| | The Title of Emperor |
| | Peter claimed that he was only reviving an ancient usage, and had his ambassador display a letter written by emperor Maximilian I to Ivan III in 1502, in which the latter is addressed as "Kaiser" in German. | | | Nicephore Phocas treated him as an interloper, but his successor John Tzimisces sent his kinswoman Theophano to marry Otto II in Rome in 972. | | | This note describes the history of the title emperor. |
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http://www.heraldica.org/topics/royalty/emperor.htm
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| | Hispania: Information From Answers.com |
| | This was known as devotio or Iberian dedication from the time of the beginning of the Roman Empire. | | | The major part of the Punic Wars, between the Punic Carthaginians and the Romans, was fought on Iberian lands; this series of wars ended with Roman victory. | | | Compendium of Roman History and Epitome of the History of Titus Livius (Livy). |
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http://www.answers.com/main/ntq-tname-hispania-tarraconensis-fts_start-0
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| | Vespasian |
| | The accession of Flavius Vespasian marks the beginning of a period, embracing three reigns, known as the Flavian age (69-96). | | | His only fault was an extravagant love of money, which, however was probably exaggerated by those who compared his parsimonious expenditure, with the lavish extravagance of former emperors. | | | One of the most memorable events of Vespasian's reign was the final termination of the Jewish war and the capture and destruction of Jerusalem and its holy temple. |
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http://latter-rain.com/Israel/vesp.htm
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| | CLARK COLLECTION OF ANCIENT ART |
| | While he was often victorious, he was not liked, and was murdered by his own officers. | | | Notes: "Salonina was the wife of emperor Gallienus, and lived during a time called the 'crisis of the 3rd century.' During this time Rome went through many political and economic disasters, from which it never really recovered. | | | Philip was a good leader of the Roman army, and was honored with the titles 'Germanicus Maximus' and 'Carpicus Maximus' after defeating the Germans and the Carpians. |
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http://www.ripon.edu/clark_collection/coin12.html
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| | Nemesis, the Roman State and the Games |
| | He then clarifies the ways in which the goddess was enlisted into the service of the Roman emperor and state. | | | The author begins by discussing the origin and background of the goddess. | | | Although Nemesis was already revered in Archaic Greece, the main evidence for worship comes from the Roman Principate. |
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http://www.brill.nl/product.asp?ID=461
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| | Fed Exhibit |
| | As the first Roman emperor, Augustus restored peace and created the form of government, know as the Principate, that would be the model for Roman rulers for almost 300 years. | | | Bronze sestertius struck by Tiberius (AD 34-35), commemorating Augustus as a god after his death. | | | The inscription reads "For the Deified Augustus-the Senate and the Roman People." |
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http://www.amnumsoc.org/exhibits/DrachmasDoubloonsDollars/cases/case02.C.html
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| | Frederick the Great + Emperor Hadrian |
| | From a successful military career, and a quick rise through the political elite of Rome, Hadrian became the adopted son of Emperor Trajan and succeeded him as Emperor, with the help of Trajan's wife, Plotina, on 11 August 117. | | | Hadrian mitigated but did not abolish slavery, had the legal code humanized and forbade torture. | | | Nor will you make jokes as has been your wont! |
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http://www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com/rants/0124almanac.htm
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