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Cirencester had its own Roman amphitheatre, built in the early second century, which now only exists as a depression in the ...

and how it came to be re-established as the Roman Empire in Rubicon. From the doomed desires of Mark Anthony to the war between Julius Caesar and Pompey, explore just how the Romans managed to ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

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Country-wise details here In 46 BCE, Julius Caesar, Rome's then king, made further changes to the calendar, but retained January 1 as the first day of the year. As the Roman empire expanded ...

Antony and Cleopatra poses the question, can passion topple an empire? Julius Caesar is assassinated, the rebellion foiled, and the Roman Empire is now ruled equally by three men, of which Mark ...

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Julius Caesar turned military victories into political power His ambition created a colossal empire and he gave his name to the rulers who succeeded him From his strategic brilliance to the Ides ...

Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

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But, despite this, there are still many in academia who claim that changes to the climate and the outbreak of plague were catastrophic for the eastern Roman Empire ... used to map the general ...