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Scipio Africanus: The First Imperator

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Today 202BC Battle of Zama Hannibal & the Carthaginian army are defeated by Roman legions under Scipio Africanus ending 2nd Punic War

Scipio Africanus:The First Imperator
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Scipio Africanus led a daring invasion to defeat Hannibal

Scipio Africanus (235–183 BCE) commanded his first army at twenty-five, led a daring invasion of Africa to personally defeat Hannibal, and secured Rome’s dominance over the Mediterranean. In ten years...

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From the shadows of the imperial palace to the crucible of dynastic ambition, traces the tumultuous paths of Livia Drusilla, Julia the Elder, Agrippina the Elder, and Claudia Octavia. Drawing on a...

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Roman History @romanhistory1.bsky.social · 5d

Today 33AD Agrippina the Elder, dies of starvation at 47, Roman noblewoman & wife of the general and statesman Germanicus.

Women of the Empire: The rise and fall of the women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
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9 Ancient Roman Roads That Still Exist Today | TheCollector

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Today 33AD Agrippina the Elder, dies of starvation at 47, Roman noblewoman & wife of the general and statesman Germanicus. Also the mother of Caligula and was the granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus

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Roman-era cities, forts, gates, and forums still stand today, alongside the ancient roads that connected them, some of which remain visible, walkable, and in daily use.

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Rome and the Isle of Man: Contact without Conquest

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Women of the Empire: The rise & fall of the women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty

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Drawing on ancient sources & modern scholarship this book examines the lives of Livia Drusilla, Julia the Elder, Agrippina the Elder & Claudia Octavia

Women of the Empire

Germanicus: The Magnificent Life and Mysterious Death of Rome's Most Popular General

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Today 19AD Germanicus died

Germanicus: The Magnificent Life and Mysterious Death of Rome's Most Popular General
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Germanicus was regarded by many Romans as a hero in the mould of Alexander the Great

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Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome

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Lawless Republic - The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome

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The collapse of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic told through the rise and fall of its most famous lawyer, Cicero

In its final decades, the Roman Republic was engulfed by a crime wave. An epidemic of extortions, murders, and acts of insurrection tested the court system’s capacity to maintain order. As case after ...

Bar Kokhba: The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome

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Bar Kokhba: The Jew Who Defied Hadrian & Challenged the Might of Rome

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The struggle between 2 strong-willed leaders over who would rule a nation. One was Hadrian the other Simon Bar Kokhba a Jewish military leader

One was Hadrian, the cosmopolitan ruler of the vast Roman Empire, then at its zenith, who some regarded as divine; the other was Shim'on, a Jewish military leader in a district of a minor province, wh...

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Born today 319BC King Pyrrhus of Epirus who fought both Rome and Carthage. He gave the world the phrase "a Pyrrhic victory" for a success so costly that it counts as a defeat

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What Was the Powerful Roman Equestrian Order That Rivaled the Senate? | TheCollector

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What Was the Powerful Roman Equestrian Order That Rivaled the Senate? www.thecollector.com/roman-equest... Via @romanhistory1.bsky.social

The Roman Equestrian Order, deriving in part from the cavalry of Rome’s earliest kings, vied with the Senate for prestige, power, and wealth in Rome.

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Died Today 404AD Aelia Eudoxia, Empress consort by marriage to the Byzantine Emperor Arcadius

Roman History @romanhistory1.bsky.social · 16d

Today 105BC Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus with approximately 120 000 Romans killed in action

How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking? | TheCollector

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The ancient Greeks and Romans developed some of the world’s earliest banking systems that pioneered many modern banking practices.

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Coins - What the Romans Introduced to Britain IV

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The Romans: A 2,000-Year History Get this book USA at https://amzn.to/45oSEwU Get the book UK at https://amzn.to/46GfthN An acclaimed ...

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Emperor Titus: The Right Hand of Vespasian

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Emperor, general, and Vespasian's right hand, Titus Flavius Vespasianus (better known as simply Titus) was remembered by the Romans as a leader to be celebrated and a deity to be worshiped

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The Roman Poet and Satirist Aulus Persius Flaccus

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The Roman Poet and Satirist Aulus Persius Flaccus Aulus Persius Flaccus, often simply known as Persius, was a Roman poet and satirist o...

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The Romans: A 2,000-Year History

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