Further information: Parni conquest of ParthiaBefore Arsaces I of Parthia founded the Arsacid Dynasty, he was chieftain of the Parni, an ancient Central-Asian tribe of Iranian peoples and one of sever ...
This disaster forced Marcus to re-evaluate his priorities. Forces from the various frontiers were dispatched against Ballomar. They came under the command of Claudius Pompeianus, with the future emper ...
During the years succeeding the rule of Antoninus Pius, the Roman Empire began to be attacked upon all sides. A war with Parthia lasted from 161 to 166 (under the joint rule of Marcus Aurelius and Luc ...
The Meditations is divided into 12 books that chronicle different periods of Marcus's life. Each book is not in chronological order and it was written for no one but himself. The style of writing that ...
Location and construction Antonine.Wall.Roman.forts.jpgRoman Emperor Antoninus Pius ordered the construction of the Antonine Wall around 142. Quintus Lollius Urbicus, governor of Roman Britain at the ...
Quintilian (35-100 AD) began his career as a pleader in the courts of law; his reputation grew so great that Vespasian created a chair of rhetoric for him in Rome. The culmination of his life's work w ...
Scholars have debated the scope of rhetoric since ancient times. Although some have limited rhetoric to the specific realm of political discourse, many modern scholars liberate it to encompass every a ...
Although only one of his four children survived to adulthood, Antoninus came to be ancestor to generations of prominent Roman statesmen and socialites, including at least one empress consort and as th ...
He was born as the only child of Titus Aurelius Fulvus, consul in 89 whose family came from Nemausus (modern N?mes). He was born near Lanuvium and his mother was Arria Fadilla. Antoninus’ father and ...
Torture has been criticized on humanitarian and moral grounds, on the grounds that evidence extracted by torture is unreliable, and because torture corrupts institutions that tolerate it. Besides degr ...
Roman Catholic Church Main articles: Inquisition, Spanish Inquisition and Medieval InquisitionSee also: Christian views on Hell § Roman CatholicismThe Catholic Church enjoined secular rulers to exter ...
Definitions Torture, according to the 1984 United Nations Convention Against Torture (an advisory measure of the UN General Assembly) is:...any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical ...
In antiquity, the term 'philhellene' (Greek: φιλ?λλην, from φ?λο? - philos, "dear one, friend" + ?λλην - Hellen, "Greek") was used to describe both non-Greeks who were fond of Greek ...
In the years after Hadrian's death in 138, the new emperor, Antoninus Pius essentially abandoned the wall, leaving it occupied in a support role, and began building a new wall called the Antonine Wall ...
Hadrian's Wall was 75 Roman miles or 117.5 km (73.0 mi) long; its width and height were dependent on the construction materials that were available nearby. East of the River Irthing, the wall was made ...
