|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Who • What • Where • When
Who → Activists •
Actors •
Anarchists •
Architects •
Artists •
Astronauts •
Athletes •
Bankers •
Billionaires •
Chefs •
Chess players •
Christians •
Communists •
Composers •
Conquerors •
Conquistadors •
Crusaders •
Designers •
Dictators •
Directors •
Engineers •
Entrepreneurs •
Explorers •
Founders •
Freemasons •
Historians •
Humanists •
Inventors •
Jurists •
Mechanicians •
Merchants •
Muses •
Musicians •
Muslims •
Outlaws •
Painters •
Philanthropists •
Philosophers •
Photographers •
Pilots •
Pirates •
Polymaths •
Prodigies •
Reformers •
Revolutionaries •
Royalty •
Sailors •
Scientists •
Settlers •
Soldiers •
Statesmen •
Teachers •
Visionaries •
Warriors •
Writers •
Women •
Icons •
People
|
|
|
150 of 2262 items
|
|
|
|
Next →
5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 ← Previous page
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cato the Younger (Cato Minor) to distinguish him from his great-grandfather (Cato the Elder), was a politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, and a follower of the Stoic philosophy. A noted orator, he is remembered for his stubbo... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Marcus Junius Brutus, often referred to simply as Brutus, was a politician of the late Roman Republic. He is best known in modern times for taking a leading role in the assassination conspiracy against Julius Caesar.... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Marcus Antonius or Marc Antony, was a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic from an oligarchy into the autocratic Roman Empire.
Antony was a supporter of Julius Caesar, and se... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vercingetorix was the chieftain of the Arverni tribe known as the man who united the Gauls in an ultimately unsuccessful revolt against Roman forces during the last phase of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars. Vercingetorix came to power in 52 BC,... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio was a Roman writer, architect and engineer active in the 1st century BC. Vitruvius is the author of De architectura, known today as The Ten Books on Architecture, a treatise written of Latin and Greek on architecture... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Herod, also known as Herod I or Herod the Great, was a Roman client king of Israel. He was (descended from converts to Judaism) serving as a servant first. Described as A madman who murdered his own family and a great many rabbis. He is com... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A nu... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cleopatra was the last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt, briefly survived as pharaoh by her son Caesarion. After her reign, Egypt became a province of the recently established Roman Empire.
Cleopatra was a member of the Ptolemaic dynast... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintillian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyric... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa was a Roman consul, statesman, general and architect. He was a close friend, son-in-law, and lieutenant to Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus and was responsible for the construction of some of the most notable building... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Emperor Augustus of Rome was born with the given name Gaius Octavius on September 23, 63 B.C. He took the name Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Octavian) in 44 B.C. after the murder of his great uncle, Julius Caesar. In his will Caesar had a... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Strabo was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. Strabo is mostly famous for his 17-volume work Geographica, which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known to his era. Although... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Titus Livius, or Livy, was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled Ab Urbe Condita, "From the Founding of the City", covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Juba II or Juba II of Numidia (52/50 BC – AD 23) was a king of Numidia and then later moved to Mauretania. His first wife was Cleopatra Selene II, daughter of Greek Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Roman triumvir Mark Antony.
J... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet best known for the Metamorphoses, a 15-book continuous mythological narrative written in the meter of epic, and for collections of love poetry in elegiac co... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2022 © Timeline Index |
|