Cassius Dio

actions that lack reason, not hers (Plutarch, in AA100 Assignment Booklet, 2011, p.17). Romans viewed Egyptian way of life as inferior and “barbaric” compared to the civility of Roman culture as was reiterated by many Roman historians such as Cassius Dio (Moohan, 2008. p. 27). Therefore, Plutarch is more concerned with Antony’s actions as he expects more from a Roman man. As a woman and an Egyptian, Plutarch does not have such high expectations of Cleopatra hence why he is less focussed on her

The Celtic Queen Boudicca of the Iceni earned her place in the history books as a hero of British lore in the years 60 and 61 C.E. After the passing of her husband and king, Prasutagus, the Roman army invaded the new Queen’s land and humiliated her, taking property, raping her daughters, and publicly flogging the Queen herself. Following this crime against humanity, Queen Boudicca vowed to destroy the Roman presence on the Isle of Great Britain. After a year of preparation, Boudicca marched into

Throughout the reign of the Julio-Claudians, Princeps embarked on grand building programs spanning the vast reaches of Imperial Rome. Building programs often reflected concern over the particular areas in the administration of the Empire. Works included the construction of aqueducts; temples and places of worship for the Augustales; rebuilding areas plagued by civil unrest or disaster; and the construction of Roman roads and infrastructure that would secure their position within the region. With

or have seen other movies with Cleopatra as the star or various other rolls. These many actresses were marvelously beautiful. This led many people to believe that the real Cleopatra was also beautiful. “She was described by the Roman historian Cassius Dio as ‘a woman of surpassing beauty’” (historyextra.com). Her beauty is also mentioned in this quote, "For she was a woman of surpassing beauty, and at that time, when she was in the prime of her youth, she was most striking; she also possessed a most

Cassius Dio gives a further account of bestial violence as Boudicca’s rebels “hung up the noblest and most beautiful women, cut off their breasts and sewed them to their mouths so that they seemed to be eating them. Then they impaled them on sharp stakes which

1 Running Head: GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR The Great and Powerful Leader Julius Caesar Hope Mullery Lincoln Charter January 12, 2016 Mr. Thomas World History Gaius Julius Caesar 2 Julius Caesar was a powerful leader who was born on July 100 BC in Rome, Italy. He was the type of leader who was very persuasive and who was also very successful at leading men into battle. Caesar had an army full of men. He won many battles and conquered many territories such as Switzerland, Northern Italy

There is no question that throughout the history of Rome its rulers sought to expand its empire. Even long after the period of Jewish-Roman conflict, when Rome had dramatically decreased its holdings due to the Goths, Justinian still sought to expand Rome to the point of bankrupting the falling empire. Power, therefore, is a visible cause of all conflicts between Rome and their subjects. In terms of the Jewish-Roman rebellions, however, taxation, is arguably a deeper cause. Appian of Alexandria,

we know about Cleopatra was written after her death when it was politically expedient to portray her as a threat to Rome and its stability. Thus, some of what we know about Cleopatra may have been exaggerated or misrepresented by those sources. Cassius Dio, one of the ancient sources that tells her story, summarizes her story as “She captivated the two greatest Romans of her day, and

A world without mistakes, successes, or discoveries is no world at all. The world cannot move forward without one’s desire to make the world a better place. If one ignores what history has given us, the present era cannot move forward. This applies to a time in history that was full of heartache, death, war; but also, light, hope, and an economic rise. The stereotypes that today’s world has given to the Medieval era, such as the injustice of women and economic lifestyle in reading and writing, are

The First Punic War: a Military History by J.F. Lazenby is a book about the war between Rome and Carthage. In the book Lazenby provides all the available information on the war from numerous sources and then shifts through that information in order to come to a conclusion on what likely really happened. To put it in Lazenby’s own words the purpose of the book was to “work out what happened at least in outline, and on this basis arrive at some understanding of why the war broke out, what the basic