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Probably the most famous of all the Romans, as a politician Caesar was the first Emperor in all but name. After his conquest of Gaul, which extended Rome’s territory to the English Channel and the Rhine, he became the first Roman General to cross both when he built a bridge across the Rhine and conducted the first invasion of Britain.
Julia Mamaea would prove to be the last of the powerful women of the Severan dynasty. When her son Alexander Severus became emperor he was 14 years old. In need of a regent it was his mother who governed Rome. Julia Mamaea had the reputation of being a traditional Roman matron, but her effective leadership pushed her far beyond that role.
Almost all of the chariot racers were slaves, if they won they received a little money, and if they earned enough victories they could buy their freedom. Because of just how deadly the sport was, the charioteers became famous simply by surviving more races than others. Unlike the Greeks, the Roman chariot racers tied the reigns around their wrists.
Just like the Roman civilisation as a whole, the legionaries of the Roman war machine were remarkable and a true one-off. Most famous battle: Far too many to mention but the Battle of Pharsalus pitched over 60,000 legionnaires against each other in Civil War.
Soon, no major decision was made before consulting the oracle of Delphi. It wasn’t just Greek people, but also foreign dignitaries, leaders and kings who travelled to Delphi for a chance to ask the oracle a question. Those who could afford it would pay great sums of money for a fast pass through the long lines of pilgrims and commoners.
With the fall of Constantinople came the fall of the last remnants of the Christianized Eastern Roman Empire. When the Roman Empire split in 330 CE, the co-capital of the eastern half had moved to Constantinople and this imperial lineage came to an end with its fall in 1453 to Mehmet II, fulfilling a prophecy of the Prophet Muhammad that Rome ...
Boadicea, or Boudicca, was a Celtic warrior queen who united several British tribes in revolt against the Roman occupation in 60-61 BC. Famously, she successfully captured and burnt the city of Londonium (modern-day London) to the ground, along with the towns of Verulamium (modern St Albans) and Camulodunum (Colchester).
Following the recapture of Jerusalem from Seljuk Muslims in 1099 by Roman Catholic Crusaders, weak Holy Land Christian states appealed to Europeans to bolster their populations. The massacre of hundreds of pilgrims at the Jordan River in Easter 1119 by Saracens, and the capture of Christian leaders in Nablus, necessitated better protection ...
A more spiritual root for this superstition is the idea that the mirror is a representation of the person’s inner soul, so breaking one would damage the soul. The idea of it taking seven years to right itself can be linked to the Roman belief that every seven years, a man’s body was physically rejuvenated. 5.
Battering rams were not only used as a siege weapon used for over 1,500 years until gunpowder superseded it as the primary method of breaching fortifications, but also in industry. Roman historian Pliny the Elder describes battering rams being used for mining purposes, where tough, hardened rock needed to be broken to make valuable ores accessible.