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Is there any accounts of Carthaginian elephants actually helping them win a battle?
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Constantine the Great (306 to 337 A.D.)
Why did Constantine convert to Christianity?
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Julius Caesar (49-44 B.C.)
Introduction https://books.google.com/books?id=aSmr_bVR2-kC&lpg=PP1&dq=life%20of%20a%20colossus&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false What was Julius Caesar’s personality like? Would Caesar’s adoption of Octavian been unexpected? Very unexpected, but not because he was adopted. Caesar had no natural heir of his own, in which cases adoption by will was ordinary. Caesar was expected to adopt somebody; whom he would adopt was at question. Most people expected…
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Monogamy & Roman Empire
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Sexuality & Roman Empire
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Emperor Domitian (81-96 A.D.)
Domitian (CE 81-96) Economy (Southern 1997, p. 53):Canceling debts to the treasury. Refusing inheritances that would leave children without money. Increasing expenditure. Overhauling the mint (by ceasing bronze coin production and improving silver and gold varieties). Lavish building programs. Pay rise for the army.After the year 85 a debasement of fine metals occurred, likely due…
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Emperor Nero (54-68 A.D.)
Puer delicati were relatively common in Ancient Rome among the elite. For example the emperor Augustus was known to have one called Sarmentus. In Suetonius’ account of Augustus’ life he tells us that Mark Antony made scandalous accusations against Augustus in an attempt to tarnish his reputation: these were mainly that he had sold his…
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Religious groups persecuted by Romans
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Provinces and non-Roman peoples (AD 284-628)
La fin de l’Empire romain d’Occident: Rome et les Wisigoths de 382–551 by Christine Delaplace (2015; ISBN 978-2753542952) PhD-Level Political Social Economic Cultural Military – This is fundamentally the best work on the development of the kingdom of the Visigoths, utilizing the most modern research on ethnogenesis, and covering the complex dynamics of the sociopolitical…
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Military (AD 284-628)
Warfare in Roman Europe AD 350–425 by Hugh Elton (1996; ISBN 978-0198150077) Advanced Political Social Military – Hugh Elton’s overview of Roman and Germanic society and warfare is fundamentally the best single work on this topic, as he describes everything from Germanic political organization and how that related to their military operations, to the limitations…