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Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC - 130s BC - 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC Years: 137 BC 136 BC 135 BC 134 BC 133 BC - 132 BC - 131 BC 130 BC 129 BC 128 BC 127 BC Events The First Servile War ends when Publius Rupilius quelled the rebellion The assassination of Tiberius Gracchus, which many historians marked as the beginning of the end of t ...

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Agatharchides of Cnidus, was a Greek historian and geographer (flourished 2nd century BC); Strabo (14.2.15) describes him as a Peripatetic. He is known as the author of a number of works, which only survive in quotation. As Stanley M. Burstein notes, the "evidence for Agatharchides' life is meagre." Photius, describes him as a threptos, a kind of assistant of servile origin, to Cineas and states that he was later a secretary to Heraclides Lembrus. Cineas served as a councillor to Ptolemy VI; Heraclides is best known for negotiating the treaty th ...

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• Agatharchides - Bibliography

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Roman Mythology Jupiter Mars Quirinus Divus Julius Divus Augustus Juno Vesta Minerva Mercury Vulcan Ceres Venus Diana Lares Fortuna Aeneas Romulus Numa Early Kings Pontifex Maximus Rex Sacrorum Vestal Virgins Flamen Dialis The ...

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• Pontifex Maximus - Etymology
• Pontifex Maximus - Origins duties and development of the Pagan Pontifices
• Pontifex Maximus - Legacy
• Pontifex Maximus - Christian usage
• Pontifex Maximus - The tradition of sovereign as High Priest
• Pontifex Maximus - Popular culture
• Pontifex Maximus - Incomplete list of Pontifices maximi
• Pontifex Maximus - Furthermore

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Aquileia (Friulian Acuilee, Slovene Oglej), an ancient Roman town of Italy, at the head of the Adriatic at the edge of the lagoons, about 6 miles from the sea, on the river Natiso (mod. Natisone), the course of which has changed somewhat since Roman times. Before the Romans, Aquileia is believed to be a center of Venetia. It was founded by the Romans in 181 BC as a frontier fortress on the north-east, not far from the site where, two years before, Gaulish invaders had attempted to settle. The colony was led by two men of consular and one of praetorian rank, and 3000 pedites< ...

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Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC - 130s BC - 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC Years: 140 BC 139 BC 138 BC 137 BC 136 BC - 135 BC - 134 BC 133 BC 132 BC 131 BC 130 BC Events Menander I, King of the Indo-Greek Kingdom dies and is succeeded by Epander. The First Servile War starts Births Sima Qian, Chinese historian (or 145 BC) Posidonius of Apamea, Greek Stoic philosopher and scientist (+ 51 B.C.) Deaths Menan ...

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Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC - 130s BC - 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC Years: 135 BC 134 BC 133 BC 132 BC 131 BC - 130 BC - 129 BC 128 BC 127 BC 126 BC 125 BC Births Deaths Pacuvius, tragic poet, died in Tarentum Events Category: 130 BC ...

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Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC - 120s BC - 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC Years: 134 BC 133 BC 132 BC 131 BC 130 BC - 129 BC - 128 BC 127 BC 126 BC 125 BC 124 BC Events Kingdom of Pergamon, including Hierapolis, becomes the Roman Province of Asia upon death of last Attalid king, Attalos III, and after the defeat of the pretender Aristonicus by P. Licinius Crassus, with Cappadocian assistance. ...

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Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC - 120s BC - 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC Years: 133 BC 132 BC 131 BC 130 BC 129 BC - 128 BC - 127 BC 126 BC 125 BC 124 BC 123 BC Events The Greco-Bactrian kingdom is overrun by the Tocharians and renamed Tocharistan. Cn. Octavius and T. Annius Rufus are this years consuls Limenius composes the Second Delphic Hymn Artabanus I becomes King of Parthia ( ...

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Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC - 130s BC - 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC Years: 139 BC 138 BC 137 BC 136 BC 135 BC - 134 BC - 133 BC 132 BC 131 BC 130 BC 129 BC Events Scipio Aemilianus, victor of Carthage, takes command in Spain against the Numantians John Hyrcanus becomes High Priest and king of Judea following the murder of his father Simon Maccabaeus by Ptolemy the son of Abubus. Hipparchus discovers the precession of the equinoxes Hipparchus creates ...

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Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC - 130s BC - 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC Years: 136 BC 135 BC 134 BC 133 BC 132 BC - 131 BC - 130 BC 129 BC 128 BC 127 BC 126 BC Events Aristonicus of Pergamon leads an uprising against Rome, and consul Publius Licinius Crassus Mucianius is killed in the fighting. The Roman censor Quintus Metellus Macedonicus attempts to remove the tribune Gaius Atinius La ...

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Both Zhi and her sister Xixu became favored by Crown Prince Qi, and she, then known as Consort Wang, bore him a son, Liu Che, shortly after he became emperor, in 156 BC. When she was pregnant, she claimed that she dreamed a sun falling into her womb. In 153 BC, Prince Che was created the Prince of Jiaodong. As Emperor Jing's empress Empress Bo had no sons, his oldest son Liu Rong (劉榮), born of his other favorite concubine Consort Li (栗姬), was created crown prince in 153 BC. Consort Li was arrogant and jealous, and she hoped to ...

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Empress Wang Zhi, Empress Wang Zhi - Family background and first marriage, Empress Wang Zhi - As consort to the crown prince and then emperor, Empress Wang Zhi - As empress, Empress Wang Zhi - As empress dowager

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Prince of Dai - Princes of Dai First Creation. Xi, Prince of Dai,(201 BC-200 BC) Ruyi, Prince Yin of Zhao, (200 BC-198 BC) Prince of Dai - Princes of Dai Second Creation. Prince of Dai, (196 BC-180 BC) Prince of Dai - Princes of Dai Third Creation. Wu, Prince Xiao of Liang, (179 BC-178 BC) Can, Prince Xiao of Dai, (178 BC-162 BC) Deng, Prince Gong of Dai, (161 BC-133 BC) Xi, Prince Gang of Qin ...

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Prince of Dai, Prince of Dai - Princes, Prince of Dai - Princes of Dai First Creation, Prince of Dai - Princes of Dai Second Creation, Prince of Dai - Princes of Dai Third Creation

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The uprising was mostly caused by great changes of property ensuing upon the final expulsion of the Carthaginians, about the middle of the Second Punic War. Speculators from Italy rushed into the island and, to the general distress of the Sicilians, bought up large tracts of land at a low price, or became the occupiers of estates which had belonged to Sicilians of the Carthaginian party and had been forfeited to Rome a ...

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First Servile War, First Servile War - Origins, First Servile War - Servile War

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In the Roman Republic, the Pontifex Maximus was the highest office in the polytheistic Roman religion, which was very much a state cult. His was the most important of the Pontifices (plural of Pontifex), positions in the main sacred college (Collegium Pontificum), which he directed. Other members of this priesthood included the Rex Sacrorum (king of the sacred rites), the Flamines (each devoted to a major deity), the Vestales. During the early Republic, the Pontifex Maximus selected the members to hold these posts ...

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Pontifex Maximus, Pontifex Maximus - Etymology, Pontifex Maximus - Origins duties and development of the Pagan Pontifices, Pontifex Maximus - Legacy, Pontifex Maximus - Christian usage, Pontifex Maximus - The tradition of sovereign as High Priest, Pontifex Maximus - Popular culture, Pontifex Maximus - Incomplete list of Pontifices maximi, Pontifex Maximus - Furthermore

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Roman road - Types of Roads. Roman roads vary from simple corduroy roads to paved roads using deep roadbeds of tamped rubble as an underlying layer to ensure that they kept dry, as the water would flow out from between the stones and fragments of rubble, instead of becoming mud in clay soils. Prepared viae began in history as the streets of Rome. The laws of the Twelve Tables, dated to approximately 450 BC, specify that a road shall be 8 feet wide where straight and 16 where curved. The tables command Roma ...

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Roman road, Roman road - The Roman Road System, Roman road - Types of Roads, Roman road - Travelling a Road, Roman road - The Itinerary, Roman road - Construction of a Road, Roman road - The Team, Roman road - The Method, Roman road - Surpassing Obstacles, Roman road - Financing, Roman road - Some Roman roads, Roman road - Albania / Greece / Turkey, Roman road - France, Roman road - Italy, Roman road - Trans-Alpine Roads, Roman road - Romania, Roman road - Spain, Roman road - United Kingdom

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See also Roman military structure. Military history of ancient Rome - Roman army. "The Roman Army" is the name given by English-speakers to the soldiers and other military forces who served the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. The Roman words for the military were often based on the word for one soldier, miles. The army in general was the militia, and a commander of military operations, magister militiae. In the republic, a general might be called imperator, "commander" (as in Caesar imperator), but un ...

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Military history of ancient Rome, Military history of ancient Rome - Institutions, Military history of ancient Rome - Roman army, Military history of ancient Rome - Roman navy, Military history of ancient Rome - Events, Military history of ancient Rome - Patterns of Roman wars, Military history of ancient Rome - List of Roman wars

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The name under which Edessa figures in cuneiform inscriptions is unknown; the later native name was Osroe, after its purported founder (who was probably only legend), this being the Armenian form for Chosroes; it became in Syriac Ourhoï, in Armenian Ourhaï in Arabic Er Roha, commonly Orfa or Sanli Urfa, its present name. Due to similarity of names, folk mythology in Islam connects Edessa with Ur as the abode of Abraham. Seleucus I Nicator, when he refounded the town as a military colony, mixing Macedonians and Greeks with its eastern popul ...

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Edessa Mesopotamia, Edessa Mesopotamia - History, Edessa Mesopotamia - Christianity, Edessa Mesopotamia - Cultural

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Mithridates was the son of Mithridates V of Pontus, called Euergetes. Mithridates spent much of his early career as a fugitive. To clear his path to the throne of the kingdom of Pontus, he killed off many of his brothers, but not his sister, Laodice, whom he married. He was ambitious, and sought to invade a number of neighbours, including Bithynia, which brought him into conflict with the expanding Roman Republic during its later years. After conquering western Anatolia in 88 BC, Mithridates ordered the killing of all Romans living th ...

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Mithridates VI of Pontus, Mithridates VI of Pontus - History, Mithridates VI of Pontus - Culture

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In the Roman Republic, the Pontifex Maximus was the highest office in the polytheistic Roman religion, which was very much a state cult. His was the most important of the Pontifices (plural of Pontifex), positions in the main sacred college (Collegium Pontificum), which he directed. Other members of this priesthood included the Rex Sacrorum (king of the sacred rites), the Flamines (each devoted to a major deity), the Vestales. During the early Republic, the Pontifex Maximus selected the members to hold these posts ...

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Pontifex Maximus, Pontifex Maximus - Etymology, Pontifex Maximus - Origins, duties, and development of the Pagan Pontifices, Pontifex Maximus - Legacy, Pontifex Maximus - Christian usage, Pontifex Maximus - The tradition of sovereign as High Priest, Pontifex Maximus - Popular culture, Pontifex Maximus - Incomplete list of Pontifices maximi, Pontifex Maximus - Furthermore

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Wang Zhi's father was named Wang Zhong (王仲). Her mother Zang Er (臧兒) was a granddaughter of Zang Tu, the one-time Prince of Yan under Emperor Gao. Her parents had, in addition to her, a son Wang Xin (王信) and another daughter Wang Xixu (王息姁). They lived in Huaili (槐里, in modern Xianyang, Shaanxi). After her father died, her mother remarried a man named Tian (田), and she had two more sons, Tian Fen (田蚡) and Tian Sheng (田勝). When Wang Zhi was young, she was married to a Jin Wangsun (金王孫), and they ha ...

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Empress Wang Zhi, Empress Wang Zhi - Family background and first marriage, Empress Wang Zhi - As consort to the crown prince and then emperor, Empress Wang Zhi - As empress, Empress Wang Zhi - As empress dowager

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