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Livius - Articles on ancient history
Articles on ancient history
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Appian on Caesar's Triumph - Livius
Appian on Caesar's Triumph
Appian of Alexandria (c.95-c.165): one of the most underestimated of all Greek historians, author of a
Roman History. The part on the Roman Civil Wars survives in its entir...
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Augustus, Res Gestae - Livius
Augustus, Res Gestae
Res Gestae Divi Augusti ("the achievements of the deified Augustus"): the official autobiography of Augustus, which survives as an inscription in Ancyra (modern Ankara).
Ankara, T...
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Herodotus on Thermopylae - Livius
Herodotus on Thermopylae
Thermopylae (Greek
Θερμοπύλαι; "Hot Gates"): small pass in Greece, site of several battles, of which the Spartan defeat against the Persian invaders in 480 is the most famous...
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Suetonius, Caesar's Funeral - Livius
Suetonius, Caesar's Funeral
On 15 March 44 BCE, the Roman dictator Julius Caesar was murdered. A few days later, he was cremated on the Roman forum. There are several accounts of this incident, but th...
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Caesar's legions - Livius
Caesar's legions
Gaius Julius Caesar (13 July 100 - 15 March 44 BCE), Roman statesman, general, author, famous for the conquest of Gaul (modern France and Belgium) and his subsequent coup d'état. He c...