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Roman Empire

27 BCE - 235 CE. Imperial Rome, provincial frontiers, Greek memory under Roman power, and court politics.

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Roman World / 120 CE

The mysterious disappearance of Rome's Ninth Legion in Britain remains one of history's most intriguing enigmas.

Roman Empire Inside this period

Greek World / 160 CE

Travel through Ancient Greece with Pausanias, the first travel writer in history: a journey of ruins, myths, and sacred memory.

Roman Greece Inside this period

Roman World / 38 CE

Julia Drusilla, beloved sister of Caligula, became a silent figure trapped between imperial obsession, hostile sources, and posthumous deification.

Roman Empire Inside this period

Roman World / 175 CE

Faustina the Younger, wife of Marcus Aurelius, stood between imperial motherhood, hostile rumors, military prestige, and posthumous deification.

Roman Empire Inside this period

Greek World / 63 BCE

Mithridates VI of Pontus, Rome's relentless enemy, tried to conquer death through poison, only to meet the cruel irony of his own immunity.

Hellenistic Kingdoms 36 years from this period

Roman World / 274 CE

Sol Invictus rises in the 3rd century. In the 4th, December 25 takes on the Nativity: rivalry, calculation, and symbolic light in Late Rome.

Late Antiquity 39 years from this period

Roman World / 71 BCE

From night over Campania to the Via Appia crucifixions, Spartacus's revolt against Rome: discipline, defiance, and an immortal legacy.

Roman Republic 44 years from this period

Roman World / 218 BCE

In 218 BCE, Hannibal Barca led Carthage's army, cavalry, and war elephants across the Alps to strike Rome from the unthinkable road.

Punic Wars 191 years from this period

Greek World / 330 BCE

Parmenion, the loyal Macedonian general, was executed without trial, sacrificed in the shadow of Alexander's growing imperial power.

Macedonian Empire 303 years from this period