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Tiberius Claudius Livianus
Tiberius Claudius Livianus was an '' eques'' and general who was appointed ''praetorian prefect'' by Trajan, playing an important role in his First Dacian War, and continued as prefect into the reign of Hadrian. His full name, as attested in an inscription found in Rome, is Tiberius Julius Aquilinus Castricius Saturninus Claudius Livianus. Ronald Syme argues that Livianus came from Sidyma in Lycia, "where his presumed parent made a dedication to Claudius Caesar."Syme"Guard Prefects of Trajan and Hadrian" ''Journal of Roman Studies'', 70 (1980), p. 79 Based on his full, polyonomous name, Syme further suggests two relatives for Livianus: he shares the first three elements of his name with the procurator of Rhaetia around 107, Tiberius Julius Aquilinus; he also shares the fourth and fifth elements with a procurator of Africa in office c. 85, Castricius Saturninus. Life The earliest historical mention of Livianus is in the epigrams of Martial. The subject of one epigram from book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Detail(s) or The Detail(s) may refer to: Film and television * Details (film), ''Details'' (film), a 2003 Swedish film * The Details (film), ''The Details'' (film), a 2011 American film * ''The Detail'', a Canadian television series * The Detail (The Wire), "The Detail" (''The Wire''), a television episode Music * Details (album), ''Details'' (album), by Frou Frou, 2002 * Detail (record producer), Noel Fisher (born c. 1978), American music producer and performer * The Details, a Canadian rock band Periodicals * DETAIL (professional journal), ''DETAIL'' (professional journal), an architecture and construction journal * Details (magazine), ''Details'' (magazine), an American men's magazine See also * Auto detailing, a car-cleaning process * Level of detail (computer graphics), a 3D computer graphics concept * Security detail, a team assigned to protect an individual or group * Detaille Island, Antarctica {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castricius Saturninus
The gens Castricia was a minor plebeian family during the later Republic and under the early Empire. No members of this gens held any important magistracy. Origin The earliest of the Castricii to appear in history was Marcus Castricius, chief magistrate of Placentia in 84 BC, suggesting that the family came from that city. At one time Placentia had belonged to the Etruscans, and later it was inhabited by the Cisalpine Gauls, but a Roman colony was established there in 218 BC. Other Castricii during this period and subsequently were Roman citizens. Members * Marcus Castricius, chief magistrate at Placentia in 84 BC, refused to give hostages to the consul Gnaeus Papirius Carbo, when he appeared before the town. * Marcus Castricius, a Roman merchant in Asia, received a public funeral from the inhabitants of Smyrna. He is probably the same Marcus Castricius mentioned in Cicero's orations against Verres. * Marcus Castricius, mentioned by Cicero in 44 BC, was apparently a different ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Roman Equites
Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history to as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history covers all continents inhabited by humans in the period 3000 BCAD 500. The three-age system periodizes ancient history into the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, with recorded history generally considered to begin with the Bronze Age. The start and end of the three ages varies between world regions. In many regions the Bronze Age is generally considered to begin a few centuries prior to 3000 BC, while the end of the Iron Age varies from the early first millennium BC in some regions to the late first millennium AD in others. During the time period of ancient history, the world population was already exponentially increasing due to the Neolithic Revolution, which was in full progress. While in 10,000 BC, the world population stood at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ancient Romans
This an alphabetical List of ancient Romans, including citizens of ancient Rome remembered in history. :''Note that some people may be listed multiple times, once for each part of the name.'' A * Titus Accius - * Gaius Acilius - *Claudia Acte - *Claudius Aelianus (Aelian) - * Sextus Aelius Paetus Catus - jurist *Lucius Aelius Caesar - would-be successor to Hadrian *Marcus Aemilius Aemilianus - emperor for three months * Annie Aetius - *Flavius Aetius - general * Gnaeus Domitius Afer - orator * Lucius Afranius - two; poet and consul *Julius Africanus - two; orator, Christian philosopher *Sextus Caecilius Africanus - jurist * Claudius Agathinus - physician * Gnaeus Julius Agricola - general in Britain *Sextus Calpurnius Agricola - governor in Britain * Marcus Julius Agrippa (Agrippa I) - a king in Judea, romanized * Marcus Julius Agrippa (Agrippa II) - a king in Judea, romanized *Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa - general and geographer *Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Postumus - son of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praeneste
Palestrina (ancient ''Praeneste''; grc, Πραίνεστος, ''Prainestos'') is a modern Italian city and ''comune'' (municipality) with a population of about 22,000, in Lazio, about east of Rome. It is connected to the latter by the Via Prenestina. It is built upon the ruins of the ancient city of Praeneste. Palestrina is the birthplace of composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Geography Palestrina is sited on a spur of the Monti Prenestini, a mountain range in the central Apennines. Modern Palestrina borders the following municipalities: Artena, Castel San Pietro Romano, Cave, Gallicano nel Lazio, Labico, Rocca di Cave, Rocca Priora, Rome, San Cesareo, Valmontone, Zagarolo. History Ancient Praeneste Ancient mythology connected the origin of Praeneste to Ulysses, or to other fabled characters such as Caeculus, Telegonus, Erulus or ''Praenestus''. The name probably derives from the word ''Praenesteus'', referring to its overlooking location. Early burials show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Servius Sulpicius Similis
Servius Sulpicius Similis (died c. 125) was an eques of ancient Rome who held several imperial positions, both civil and military, under Trajan and Hadrian, culminating with ''praefectus'' or governor of Egypt from 107 to 112. His place of origin is unknown. A fragmentary inscription bearing Similis' name has been found in a cathedral in Carthage. This led Ronald Syme to comment, "An African 'patria' is not excluded". Career While a centurion, Sulpicius Similis' actions during Trajan's First Dacian War brought him to the emperor's attention. According to an anecdote in Dio Cassius, the emperor also appreciated his humble, honest character.Dio Cassius, ''Historia Romana'', 59.19 This favor allowed Similis to skip the steps of the equestrian ''tres militiae'', which were normally required to hold the senior imperial equestrian posts. An excerpt of Ulpian indicates that around 106 Similis was named ''Praefectus annonae'', or overseer of the grain supply for the capital city of Rome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trajan's Parthian Campaign
Trajan's Parthian campaign was engaged by Roman Emperor Trajan in 115 against the Parthian Empire in Mesopotamia. The war was initially successful for the Romans, but a series of setbacks, including wide-scale rebellions in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa and Trajan's death in 117, ended in a Roman withdrawal. In 113, Trajan decided that the moment was ripe for a final resolution of the "eastern question" by the decisive defeat of Parthia and the annexation of Armenia. His conquests marked a deliberate change of Roman policy towards Parthia and a shift of emphasis in the empire's "grand strategy".Lightfoot (1990), 115: "Trajan succeeded in acquiring territory in these lands with a view to annexation, something which had not seriously been attempted before .. Although Hadrian abandoned all of Trajan's conquests ..the trend was not to be reversed. Further wars of annexation followed under Lucius Verus and Septimius Severus". Sicker (2000), 167–168 In 114, Trajan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Roxan
Margaret Roxan (1924–2003) was a British archaeologist and expert on Roman military diplomas. Her major contribution to the discipline was three edited collections of newly-found diplomas that acquired a scholarly authority and place as the direct successor of Theodor Mommsen and Herbert Nesselhauf. She also edited the diplomas for publication in ''The Roman Inscriptions of Britain''. Education and career Although her first degree was awarded in Psychology from University College London in 1948, in 1960 she started a university extension course in archaeology. She earned a diploma with distinction from the Institute of Archaeology in 1967, and she gained her PhD some six years later. Her thesis topic was on the auxiliary regiments of the Iberian peninsula. After being awarded her doctorate she lectured at the London University extramural department and the Inner London Education Authority. She undertook her research for over thirty years with minimal help in kind from a num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassius Dio
Lucius Cassius Dio (), also known as Dio Cassius ( ), was a Roman historian and senator of maternal Greek origin. He published 80 volumes of the history on ancient Rome, beginning with the arrival of Aeneas in Italy. The volumes documented the subsequent founding of Rome (753 BC), the formation of the Republic (509 BC), and the creation of the Empire (27 BC), up until 229 AD. Written in Ancient Greek over 22 years, Dio's work covers approximately 1,000 years of history. Many of his 80 books have survived intact, or as fragments, providing modern scholars with a detailed perspective on Roman history. Biography Lucius Cassius Dio was the son of Cassius Apronianus, a Roman senator and member of the gens Cassia, who was born and raised at Nicaea in Bithynia. Byzantine tradition maintains that Dio's mother was the daughter or sister of the Greek orator and philosopher, Dio Chrysostom; however, this relationship has been disputed. Although Dio was a Roman citizen, he wrote in Gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decebalus
Decebalus (), sometimes referred to as Diurpaneus, was the last Dacians, Dacian king. He is famous for fighting three wars, with varying success, against the Roman Empire under two emperors. After raiding south across the Danube, he defeated a Roman invasion in the reign of Domitian, securing a period of independence during which Decebalus consolidated his rule. When Trajan came to power, his armies invaded Dacia to weaken its threat to the Roman border territories of Moesia. Decebalus was defeated in 102 AD. He remained in power as a client king, but continued to assert his independence, leading to a final and overwhelming Roman invasion north of the Danube in 105 AD. Trajan reduced the Dacian capital Sarmizegetusa Regia, Sarmizegetusa to ruins in 106 AD, absorbing some of Dacia into the Empire. Decebalus died by suicide to avoid capture. Early life After the death of Great King Burebista, Dacia split into four, then five smaller kingdoms. Nothing is known about Decebalus' yout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucius Licinius Sura
Lucius Licinius Sura was an influential Roman Senator from Tarraco, Hispania, a close friend of the Emperor Trajan and three times consul, in a period when three consulates were very rare for non-members of the Imperial family, in 102 and 107 AD as a ''consul ordinarius''. Fausto Zevi postulated that he was also suffect consul in 97, based on a plausible restoration of part of the ''Fasti Ostienses'', which reads ''"..]us"''. However, two more recently recovered fragments of military diplomas show that the name of this consul is L. Pomponius Maternus, who is otherwise unknown. Most authorities have returned to endorsing C.P. Jones' surmise that Sura was consul for the first time as a suffect consul in the year 93. He was a correspondent of Pliny the Younger. Life He was mentioned by a number of contemporary writers, who provide hints about his personality. The earliest mention of Sura are in three of Martial's epigrams. In the first (I.49), addressed to Licinianus of Bilbilis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
