Herodotus writes more credibly of contemporaneous events, especially where they concerned his native land. Asia Minor had been partly conquered by the Iranians, starting with the Scythians, then the M ...
The borders of Lycia varied over time but at its centre was the Teke peninsula of southwestern Turkey, which juts into the Mediterranean Sea in a north-south direction, is bounded on the west by the G ...
The accuracy of the received history has been questioned by historical revisionists such as Anthony A. Barrett. They suggest that later Roman chroniclers such as Suetonius and Dio Cassius were influen ...
The most public case of consensual adult sibling incest in recent years is the case of a brother-sister couple from Germany, Patrick Stübing and Susan Karolewski. Because of violent behavior on the p ...
The English word incest is derived from the Latin incestus, which has a general meaning of "impure, unchaste". It was introduced into Middle English, both in the generic Latin sense (preserved through ...
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was probably born in Italy at about 69 AD, a date deduced from his remarks describing himself as a "young man" twenty years after Nero's death. It is certain that Suetonius ...
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was probably born in Italy at about 69 AD, a date deduced from his remarks describing himself as a "young man" twenty years after Nero's death. It is certain that Suetonius ...
In the episode "Zeus, by Jove!" of the 1976 BBC TV series I, Claudius, based on the novels I, Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves, Gemellus was portrayed by Douglas Melbourne. In this versi ...
He was born in 7 October 13 BC with the name Nero Claudius Drusus, and is also known to historians as Drusus II, Drusus the Younger and Drusus Minor. Drusus was named after his paternal uncle the gene ...
Macro was born in 21 BC at Alba Fucens, a Roman town at the foot of Monte Velino, situated on a hill just to the north of the Via Valeria.Inscriptional evidence from the ruins of this town reveals tha ...
Sejanus' fall is depicted in the section in Juvenal's Satire X on the emptiness of power. This reviews the destruction of his statues after the damnatio memoriae judgment and reflects on the ficklenes ...
That same evening, the Senate convened at the Temple of Concord and summarily condemned Sejanus to death. He was led from prison and strangled. His body was cast onto the Gemonian stairs, where the cr ...
Sejanus was born in 20 BC at Volsinii, Etruria, to the family of Lucius Seius Strabo. The Seii were Romans of the equestrian class (or knights), the lower of the two upper social classes of the Roman ...
Capri Art Film Festival (every April since 2006)Festival of San Costanzo (Capri patron saint) – May 14Festival of Sant’Antonio (Anacapri patron saint) – June 13Capri Tango Festival (every June sinc ...
The etymology of the name Capri is unclear; it might either be traced back to the Ancient Greeks (Ancient Greek κ?προ? kapros meaning "wild boar"), the first recorded colonists to populate the i ...
