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Feb 26, 2021 · Ancient Rome’s increased influence in the region, which started around 200 BCE, ended up being a huge factor in the fall of ancient Greece. A very militaristic and prosperous Rome made it their goal to conquer all of Greece.
Mar 16, 2024 · Upon conquering Greece in the second century BCE, principally with the victory over Corinth in 146 BCE, Rome was able to establish the province of Macedonia, covering northern Greece. The cities of the Peloponnese were also subject to Rome’s rule, although not all to the same degree as in the province of Macedonia.
At one period, a Gr. kingdom was carved out in the eastern marches, which covered modern Afghanistan and NW India. It disappeared in the flux of history, lying as it did beyond the ultimate reach of Rome; but coinage reveals a considerable realm that had its years of power.
The New Testament was written at a time when the ancient Mediterranean world was dominated by Rome. The Roman Empire reached far and wide and even included Jerusalem in the Roman province of Judea. In Paul’s extensive missionary travels, he never ventured outside the empire’s borders.
The city plan below shows most of the features of the city of Rome that archaeologists have so far identified as dating from the time of Paul. Sections of the city would have been very impressive in his time, but most of the outstanding buildings visible in Rome today date to after his death.
Jan 13, 2009 · In “The First Crime: Brothers and Fratricide in the Ancient Mediterranean” Bremmer wonders why the first crime (Cain killed Abel) was fratricide. He inspects attitudes towards brothers in Greece, Rome, and Israel to note the importance of brotherly solidarity in a cutthroat pre-state world.
The Decapolis (Greek: Δεκάπολις, Dekápolis, 'Ten Cities') was a group of ten Greek Hellenistic cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in the Southern Levant in the first centuries BC and AD.
