With his brother, Drusus, he helped carry out the expansion of the Roman Empire for Augustus. ... Tiberius also had to control the mutinies that broke out when the Roman people found out that Augustus had died. ... Sejanus was found guilty of treason in AD 31 and was executed. ...
Fall of the Roman Empire There are many contributing factors to the fall or Rome. Rome was a grand civilization with magnificent roads, buildings, aqueducts and much more. It was a civilization that started out as a tiny city on a hill next to the Tiber River. Romulus and his brother Remus found...
Virgil seeks to reveal the true reason for the Trojan War and Aeneas' journey to Italy to found the predecessor to Rome. ... Theonoe, the other strong female character in Helen, deceives her brother into thinking she knows nothing of Menelaus being alive and in Egypt. ...
Gibbon also said that causation can be found in studying the details of the ancient world. ... Bloch was affected by the infamous Dreyfus case where a Jewish officer was found guilty on fake evidence. ... Thompson for much of his life was a communist, and in his one of his major works, there is a spirit in Europe: a memoir of Frank Thompson, expressed his brothers communist views. ...
Gaius Octavius, the great-nephew of Julius Caesar, was born in Rome on the 23rd of September, 63 BC (Southern 1). After Julius Caesar's death on the Ides of March in 44 BC, a struggle for power in Rome ensued, even though 18 year old Octavian was the heir. Marc Antony, a good friend of Julius C...
Perhaps the reason for this can be found during the Third Servile War, 73-71 BC, in which Spartacus led a slave uprising that lasted for three years. ... Cassius Dio wrote of Cicero's return from exile in his Roman History, "During the very taking of the vote on the measure Clodius, knowing that the multitude would be on Cicero's side, took the gladiators that his brother held in readiness for the funeral games in honour of Marcus, his relative, and rushing into the assemblage, wounded many and killed many others. ...
