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5 days ago · Tiberius - Roman Empire, Successor, Augustus: Although the opening years of Tiberius’s reign seem almost a model of wise and temperate rule, they were not without displays of force and violence, of a kind calculated to secure his power. The one remaining possible contender for the throne, Postumus, was murdered, probably at Tiberius’s orders. The only real threat to his power, the Roman ...
5 days ago · As oldest, Tiberius was the first to do so. In the triumph following Augustus’s victory over Cleopatra and Antony at Actium, the 13-year-old Tiberius rode the right-hand horse of Augustus’s chariot in the procession. Though not a striking figure, he conducted himself well.
- Before becoming emperor, Augustus forced Tiberius’s father to give up his wife, Livia. Tiberius and his younger brother, Drusus, lived with their f...
- Tiberius’s early life was spent in exile in Sicily, but he returned to Rome with his family at age three. Tiberius and his brother, Drusus, came to...
- His first military command, at age 22, in which lost Roman legion standards were recovered in Parthia, brought him great acclaim. He was then assig...
- Tiberius, a popular victorious general, spent a period in exile before reacquiring power near the end of Emperor Augustus’s reign. As Augustus’s su...
1 day ago · Pontius Pilate [b] ( Latin: Pontius Pilatus; Greek: Πόντιος Πιλᾶτος, romanized :Póntios Pilátos) was the fifth governor of the Roman province of Judaea, serving under Emperor Tiberius from 26/27 to 36/37 AD. He is best known for being the official who presided over the trial of Jesus and ultimately ordered his crucifixion. [7]
1 day ago · In Poland, Augustus II was restored as King. Peter, overestimating the support he would receive from his Balkan allies, attacked the Ottoman Empire, initiating the Russo-Turkish War of 1710 . [69] Peter's campaign in the Ottoman Empire was disastrous, and in the ensuing Treaty of the Pruth , Peter was forced to return the Black Sea ports he had ...
23 hours ago · The Virgin Mary is standing in the middle, depicted, as usual in Byzantine art, in a dark blue gown. She holds the Christ Child on her lap. He gives his blessing with his right hand while holding a scroll in his left hand. On her right side stands emperor John II Comnenus, represented in a garb embellished with precious stones. He holds a purse ...
5 days ago · The period between 1700 and 1750 CE in English literature is called the Augustan age. It is relative to the reign of the Roman Emperor, Augustus, who ruled from 27 BCE to 14 CE, and Latin literature reached its zenith with the presence of poets. Examples: Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. English writers in this period tried to imitate many of the ...
2 days ago · Download stock image of “Augustus II of Saxony giving the King of Prussia an entire regiment of dragoons in exchange for four dozen Chinese porcelain vases. Liebig card, published in late 19th or early 20th century. From a series on the history of porcelain and its manufacture.” from the Look and Learn History Picture Archive
