Cato the Elder was born in Tusculum, a municipal town of Latium, to which his ancestors had belonged for some generations. His father had earned the reputation of a brave soldier, and his great-grandf ...
Independent Numidia The name Numidia was first applied by Polybius and other historians during the third century BC to indicate the territory west of Carthage, including the entire north of Algeria as ...
Main article: Indo-GreeksIndo-Greek territory, with known campaigns and battles.The separation of the Indo-Greek kingdom from the Greco-Bactrian kingdom resulted in an even more isolated position, and ...
The word Hellenistic is a modern word and a 19th-century concept; the idea of a Hellenistic period did not exist in Ancient Greece. Although related in form or meaning words, e.g. Hellenist (Ancient G ...
Etymology Latin agnōmen (also spelled adnomen) comes from ad "to" and nōmen "name".Caligula As a minimum, a Roman agnomen is a name attached to an individual's full titulature after birth and formal ...
Crossing the Alps, Hannibal reached the Italian peninsula in 218 BC and won several major victories against the Roman armies. Having failed to defeat Hannibal or drive him from Italy, the Romans chang ...
This strategy derives its name from Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, the dictator of the Roman Republic given the task of defeating the great Carthaginian general Hannibal in southern Italy during t ...
Prehistory to Christianity ?tzi, the 5,300-year-old mummy, found in the ?tztal Alps shown here in a museum reproduction of what he may have looked like.About 10,000 years ago, when the ice melted af ...
The English word Alps derives from the Latin Alpes (through French). Maurus Servius Honoratus, an ancient commentator of Virgil, says in his commentary (A. X 13) that all high mountains are called Alp ...
Further information: Visigoths, Suebi, Alans, VandalsIberian Peninsula (AD 530–AD 570)The Iberian Peninsula in the year 560 ADRome's loss of jurisdiction in Hispania began in 409, when the Germanic B ...
The origin of the word Hispania is much disputed and the evidence for the various speculations are based merely upon what are at best mere resemblances, likely to be accidental, and suspect supporting ...
Hamilcar’s immediate objective was to secure access to the gold and silver mines of Sierra Morena, either by direct and indirect control. Negotiations with the “Tartessian” tribes were successfully ...
Little is known about the origins or history of the Barca family prior to the Punic Wars. Quoting Tony Bath, "The Barca family, which originally came from Cyrene, was a powerful one but not at that ti ...
From Lamia, Philip went to Phalara. There he met representatives from the neutral states of Egypt, Rhodes, Athens and Chios who were trying to end the war—they were trading states and the war was pro ...
Rome's preoccupation with its war against Carthage provided an opportunity for Philip V of Macedon to attempt to extend his power westward. According to the ancient Greek historian Polybius, an import ...
