Concurrently, Antiochus III (223-187BCE), king of the Seleucid Empire ... Roman response was decisive and soon the legions were dispatched back to Greece. According to Grainger, the limited size ...

For decades, archaeologists believed these ruins were simply the remains of a Roman-era military ... of Macedonia and its push toward empire. “The ancient Macedonian state played a major role ...

With the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, Rome entered a period of political upheaval settled only when Caesar's nephew Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra, took control of the Empire ... As ...

With a highly sought-after setting and a host of welcome changes already showcased, Anno 117: Pax Romana will hopefully ...

A study of the Roman conquest of Anatolia reveals how imperial expansion fueled economic growth but ultimately triggered ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

Alexander the Great's vast empire was built upon his keen and continuously changing battle tactics, which depended on the enemy and terrain.

When Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C., the Macedonian ... Empire. A new dynasty of Hellenistic sovereigns was born. In the first century B.C., Commagene formed a buffer zone between the Roman ...

Thanks to modern-day literature and films—and the fact that ancient amphitheaters remain standing throughout the former Roman Empire, notably the Colosseum in Rome—warring gladiators are one ...

In Rome’s Colosseum and other amphitheatres in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial spectacles were not merely human-versus-human affairs. Gladiators also ...

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