Jugurtha - Jugurtha Jugurtha, (c. 160 - 104 BC) King of Numidia. The people of Numidia were semi-nomadic, indistinguishable from the other Berbers in North Africa until the reign of Masinissa, who became a Roman ally in 206 BC, with a kingdom roughly equivalent to modern Algeria. His son Micipsa succeeded him in 148 B.C. Jugurtha, Masinissa's illegitimate grandson, was very popular among the Numidians -- so popular that Micipsa sent him away to Spain, but there Jugurtha made influential Roman contacts. When Micipsa died in 118, the kingdom of Numidia was ruled by Micipsa's two sons Hiempsal (whom Jugurtha had assassinated) and Adherbal, and Jugurtha. Then, when Jugurtha attacked Adherbal, he fled to Rome for help. Jugurtha, meanwhile, bribed officials in Rome. They divided Numidia into two.
Gaius Memmius - which were the ruins of Epicurus' house, and that he had determined to build on the site a house for himself. According to Ovid (Trisi. ii. 433) he was the author of erotic poems. He possessed considerable oratorical abilities, but his contempt for Latin letters and preference for Greek models impaired his efficiency as an advocate (Cic. Brut. 70). Another Gaius Memmius, tribune in 111 BC, attacked the aristocrats on a charge of corrupt relations with Jugurtha. Memmius subsequently stood for the consulship in 99, but was slain in a riot, stirred up by his rival the praetor Glaucia. Sallust describes him as an orator, but Cicero (De oratore, ii. 59, 70) had a poor opinion of him. Reference This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica..
Golden Age of Latin Literature - in Ovid, who wrote long and learned poems on mythological subjects, as well as semi-satirical pieces such as the Ars Amatoria, the Art of Love. Tibullus and Propertius also wrote poems that were modelled after Greek antecedents. Prose In prose, Golden Age Latin is exemplified by Julius Caesar, whose Commentaries on the Gallic Wars display a laconic, precise, military style; and by Marcus Tullius Cicero, a practicing lawyer and politician, whose judicial arguments and political speeches, most notably the Catiline Orations, were considered for centuries to be the best models for Latin prose. Cicero also wrote many letters which have come down to us, and a few philosophical tracts in which he gives his version of Stoicism. Historiography was an important genre of classical Latin prose; it includes Sallust, who wrote.
104 BC - starts a slave rebellion in Segesta. Gaius Marius is consul of Rome, the first of five successive consulships. Births Deaths Jugurtha, King of Numidia (execution by Rome).
107 BC - 102 BC Events Gaius Marius arrived in North Africa to lead the war against Jugurtha. Births Deaths.
108 BC - BC 103 BC Events Roman forces under Caecilius Metellus defeat the forces of Jugurtha of Numidia at the Battle of the Muthul. Births L. Sergius Catalina, Roman statesman Deaths.
110 BC - 109 BC 108 BC 107 BC 106 BC 105 BC Events Jugurtha king of Numidia defeats a Roman army under Aulus Postumius Albinus. Births Deaths Edersceal, 95th monarch of Ireland.
112 BC - king of Iberia. Asian Silk Road opens. Roman empire declares war against Jugurtha Sport Arts and Entertainment.
Susanna Moodie - were educated by their parents. She wrote her first children's book in 1822, and published other children's stories in London, including books about Spartacus and Jugurtha. In London she was also involved in the anti-slavery movement. On April 4, 1831, she married John Moodie, a retired officer who had served in the Napoleonic Wars. With her husband, daughter, and sister, she emigrated to Canada into 1832, to a farm near Peterborough, Upper Canada, where her brother Samuel worked as a surveyor. She continued to write in Canada and her letters and journals contain valuable information about life in the colony. She observed life in what was then the backwoods of Ontario, including native customs, relations between the Canadian population and recent American, the strong sense of community and the communal work.
Roman legion - commonly reinforced by allied troops, the allae. In several occasion of the history of Rome, the legions played an important political role. Their actions could secure the empire for an Imperial hopeful or take it away. An example is the defeat of Vitellius in the Year of the four emperors, decided in the moment that the Danubian legions chose to support Vespasian. For much of Roman history the potential power of the legions was acknowledged in that they were legally excluded from Italy proper, they could not cross the Rubicon. In the Republic, legions had an ephemeral existence. Except for Legio I to IV, which were the consular army (two per consul), other units were levied and disbanded according to necessity. The need for more permanent legions only came when serious.
Marius - by inspecting ballots and Marius passed a law narrowing the passages down which voters passed to cast their votes in order to prevent outsiders from harassing the electors. In the passage of this law, Marius alienated the Metelli, who opposed it. Soon thereafter Marius ran for the curule aedileship and after losing ran unsuccessfully for the plebeian aedileship (Plutarch says the two defeats actually happened on the same day, but for technical reasons this is unlikely). In 116 he barely won election as praetor for 115 (presumably coming in sixth) and was promptly accused of ambitus (electoral corruption). He barely won acquittal on this charge, spent an uneventful year as praetor in Rome (as urban praetor, peregrine praetor or president of the extortion court). In 114 Marius' imperium was prorogued and.
List of comic books - Alberto Breccia (artist) Belgium (bande dessinée, BD) Bernard Prince and Comanche by Greg (author) and Hermann Huppen (artist) Blueberry by Jean-Michel Charlier (author) and Jean Giraud (artist) Jeremiah by Hermann Huppen Jugurtha by Jean-Luc Vernal (author) and Hermann Huppen (artist) Les Schtroumpfs (adopted to The Smurfs) Lucky Luke Spirou Tintin Canada Captain Canuck Cerebus the Aardvark by Dave Sim with Gerhard Dirty Plotte Drawn and Quarterly Northguard Peep Show Palookaville Thieves & Kings by Mark Oakley Underwater Yummy Fur Finland (sarjakuvat) Kramppeja ja Nyrjähdyksiä Mämmilä by Tarmo Koivisto Praedor by Petri Hiltunen France (bande dessinée, BD) 120 Rue de la Gare and Brouillard au pont de Tolbiac by Léo Malet (author) and Jacques Tardi (artist) Asterix and Obelix Pyrénée by Régis Loisel and Philippe Sternis Roach Killer by B. Legrand (author).
List of battles 1400 BC-600 AD - Terentius Varro in what is considered one of the great masterpieces of the tactical art. First Battle of Nola The Roman general Marcus Claudius Marcellus holds off an attack by Hannibal. 215 BC Second Battle of Nola Marcellus again repulses an attack by Hannibal. 214 BC Third Battle of Nola Marcellus fights an inconclusive battle with Hannibal. 212 BC - First Battle of Capua Hannibal defeats the consuls Q. Fulvius Flaccus and Appius Claudius, but the Roman army escapes Battle of the Silarus Hannibal destroys the army of the Roman praetor M. Centenius Penula. Battle of Herdonia Hannibal destroys the Roman army of the praetor Gnaeus Fulvius. 211 BC - Battle of the Upper Baetis Publius and Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio are killed in battle with the Carthaginians under Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal.
List of Roman battles - once again defeats Marcellus, in an indecisive battle 208 BC - Battle of Baecula - Romans in Spain under P. Cornelius Scipio the Younger defeat Hasdrubal Barca 207 BC - Battle of Grumentum - Roman general Gaius Claudius Nero fights an indecisive battle with Hannibal, then escapes north to confront Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal, who has invaded Italy Battle of the Metaurus - Hasdrubal is defeated and killed by Nero's Roman army. 206 BC - Battle of Ilipa - Scipio again decisively defeats the remaining Carthaginian forces in Spain. 204 BC - Battle of Crotona - Hannibal fights a drawn battle against the Roman general Sempronius in Southern Italy. 203 BC - Battle of Bagbrades - Romans under Scipio defeat the Carthaginian army of Hasdrubal Gisco and Syphax. Hannibal is sent to.
List of ancient Romans - Fabius Buteo - consul Lucius Fabius Iustus - consul Paullus Fabius Maximus - consul Quintus Fabius Maximus (Allobrogicus) - praetor Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus - consul Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus - consul Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, Cunctator - consul Quintus Fabius Pictor - senator, historian Fabius Rusticus - historian Gaius Fabricius Luscinus - consul Marcus Fadius Gallus - friend of Cicero Gaius Fannius - consul Annia Galeria Faustina - two; wife and daughter of Antoninus Pius Marcus Cetius Faventinus - scholar Eulogius Favonius - rhetor Marcus Favonius - politician Favorinus - rhetor Marcus Antonius Felix - freedman procurator Fenestella - annalist Porcius Festus - procurator Rufius Festus - writer Sextus Pompeius Festus - scholar Gaius Flavius Fimbria - consul Julius Firmicus Maternus - astrologer Aulus Avillius Flaccus - official Quintus Fulvius.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla - money, Sulla's first years were spent in the backstage of Rome's political elite. The means by which Sulla attained the fortune that enabled him to ascend to senatorial rank are not clear, although some sources refer to family inheritances. In 107 BC, Sulla was nominated quaestor to Gaius Marius, who was taking control of the Roman army in the war against King Jugurtha of Numidia. The Jugurthine war had started in 112 BC with humiliating results for Rome. Marius' army ultimately defeated the enemy in 106 BC, thanks to Sulla's initiative to capture the Numidian king by persuading his family to betray him. The publicity attracted by this feat boosted Sulla's political career, but earned him bitter resentment from Marius. Nevertheless, Sulla continued to serve on Marius' staff until the campaign.
Lucius Opimius - established a quaestio or tribunal that condemned to death 3000 people accused of being supporting Gracchus. Opimius was prosecuted for these violent actions in 120 BC, but Carbo won his acquittal. Opimius' victory established the senatus consultum ultimum in Roman constitutional practice, providing a limitless tool that the various Roman factions used against each other in the following years as the Republic slipped increasingly into violence and civil war. In 116 BC, Opimius headed a commission that divided Numidia between Jugurtha and his brother Adherbal. Suspecting that the commission had been influenced by bribes from Jugurtha, its members were later investigated by a tribunal that censured their conduct. Opimius was forced into exile, where he later died..
