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  CTCWeb Glossary: A (abnocto to aveste)
Cleopatra, was defeated by Agrippa at the battle of Actium in 31 BCE; he was made co-consul in 44 BCE; he married a politically active woman, Fulvia, who died in 40 BCE; Antony was part of the second triumvirate with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Octavian from 43-30 BCE.
Plato who was concerned with natural phenomena; tutor of Alexander the Great; Aristotle began teaching in Athens in 335 BCE; during that same year he founded the Lyceum (Peripatetic school); author of the Poetics, The Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, among other works; when Aristotle dies in 322 BCE, Theophrates becomes head of the Lyceum.
Persian invasion of 480 BCE, the original fortification of Athens' Acropolis were destroyed and were rebuilt in 478 BCE; the 5th century building program of Pericles resulted in the classical structures for which the Athenian Acropolis is famous; in 404 BCE the Acropolis was destroyed again by the Spartan and was rebuilt in 394 BCE.
ablemedia.com /ctcweb/glossary/glossarya.html   (3455 words)

  
  Agathokles * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
(361-289 BCE) The son of Karkinus (Carcinus), a successful pottery maker, and a native of the island of Sicily; born in the city of Thermae circa 361 BCE.
After the death of Timoleon (circa 300 BCE), Agathokles was banished by the oligarchy and took refuge in southern Italy; he helped organize the defense of his father’s hometown of Rhegium from aggression by Syracuse and thereby toppled the oligarchy which had banished him.
Agathokles was assassinated circa 289 BCE and, as a testament to his despicable reputation, an attempt was made to have his name erased from all public records.
www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Agathokles_1.html   (589 words)

  
  Temple in Jerusalem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
10th century BCE and was subsequently rebuilt twice, after the Babylonian Captivity and during Herod the Great's renovation.
Solomon's Temple, was built in approximately the 10th century BCE to replace the Tabernacle.
It was destroyed by the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BCE.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_Temple   (1471 words)

  
 Persian-Jerusalem through Coins
Ezra 6:14-15, They finished their building by command of the God of Israel and by decree of Cyrus and Darius and Ar-ta-xerx'es king of Persia; and this house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius (I) the king.
During Persian rule, in about 440 BCE, a governor named Nehemiah was sent by Persia rule and rebuild the city and it's walls.
Persian rule was generally tolerant of the religious practices of the conquered peoples as illustrated by the Cyrus Proclamation and the depiction of Baal on a coin produced under Persian rule.
members.verizon.net /vze3xycv/Jerusalem/confPersian.htm   (647 words)

  
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Their conservative government consists of a kingship, resembling the traditional values of the patriarchal family; an assembly, composed of male citizens of military age; and a Senate, comprised of elders who serve as the heads of different community sects.
Their major contributions to the Romans are the arch and the vault, gladiatorial combat for entertainment and the study of animals to predict future events.
52 BCE: Rome - Pompey is elected as sole consul by the Senate, and Caesar is declared an enemy of the Roman Republic.
eawc.evansville.edu /chronology/ropage.htm   (2946 words)

  
 The Glory that was Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Son of a midwife and sculptor, he was acquainted with the intellectual elite at the court of Pericles, ruler of Athens, despite his plebian origins.
In 361 BCE, however, he returned to Athens, feeling that Sicily's problems were too great for one man to overcome.
Aristotle, or Aristoteles, (c.384-322 BCE) was born in Stagirus in the Greek colony of Chalcidice, which lies to the north of Greece near Macedon.
www.watson.org /~leigh/philo.html   (1899 words)

  
 Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Since the third son of Antiochus III was not in direct line for the Seleucid throne, he was sent to Rome as a royal hostage after his father's defeat by the Romans (189 BCE).
Torah observance was outlawed and the imperial cult brought into the Jewish temple itself with the erection of a statue of Antiochus as Zeus with a Hellenistic altar of sacrifice.
Meanwhile, the concentration of the bulk of his forces in the eastern provinces enabled the family of a Jewish priest named Mattathias to oust the Antiochene party from Jerusalem, purge the temple and begin the formation of an independent Jewish state.
virtualreligion.net /iho/antiochus_4.html   (614 words)

  
 Ancient Roman Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: )
450 BCE: Rome The Law of the Twelve Tables is established allowing the plebeians to have knowledge of their relationship to the law.
265 BCE: Rome initiates the Punic Wars with Carthage, an oligarchic empire stretching from the northern coast of Africa to the Strait of Gibraltar.
52 BCE: Pompey is elected as sole consul by the Senate, and Caesar is declared an enemy of the Roman Republic.
www.crystalinks.com /romehistory.html   (3100 words)

  
 VictoryNikeCherubimAngels
Below, from a Phoenican crafted platter of the 8th/7th century BCE are two Cherubim, winged sphinxes, smelling the fragrant aroma of a sacred tree and guarding it.
By 1130 BCE Egypt withdrew from Canaan under Pharaoh Ramesses VI  permitting the Egyptian-unopposed "rise" of Israel.
310-306 BCE at Syracuse, Sicily by the Greek Tyrant Agathocles.
www.bibleorigins.net /VictoryNikeCherubimAngels.html   (1351 words)

  
 Demosthenes biography - S9.com
384 BCE – A prominent Greek diplomat and orator was born in Athens this year, during the last year of the 98th Olympiad or the first year of the 99th Olympiad.
364 BCE - At the age of 20, Demosthenes sued his trustees in order to recover his patrimony and delivered five orations, 3 Against Aphobus during 363 BC and 362 BC and 2 Against Ontenor during 362 and 361 BCE.
351 BCE – He felt strong enough to express his view concerning the most important foreign policy issue facing Athens at that time: the stance his city should take towards Philip II of Macedon.
www.s9.com /Biography/Demosthenes   (543 words)

  
 Roman Calendar   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 63 BCE the rite was held in the house of then praetor Julius Caesar, who was also pontifex maximus.
on the Aventine (273 BCE?), the god of horses celebrated by a parade of riders, their horses decked in flowers, and led by a Rex Equus.
on the Capitoline Hill in 497 BCE, in 217 BCE the festival was reorganized and expanded.
www.societasviaromana.org /Collegium_Religionis/caldec.php   (854 words)

  
 Aello to Agesilaus I * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
The Aeneid was written between the years 29-19 BCE during the reign of Augustus Caesar (Octavian) and was an undisguised attempt to re-instill the noble values on which Rome had been founded and to give new faith to the people of Rome after the flagrant excesses of Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius.
Aeskhylus was born in Eleusis circa 512 BCE and died in Gela, on the island of Sicily, circa 455 BCE; his grave marker declared him to be an Athenian veteran of the battle of Marathon (490 BCE).
After the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE), the various cities of Aetolia formed a confederacy that was governed by an Assembly of all free citizens.
www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/_a1002.html   (3909 words)

  
 Jordan   (Site not responding. Last check: )
His history of violating treaties, raiding caravans and slaughtering noncombatants made him so notorious that when he was finally captured by Saladin, the usually-merciful Sultan personally beheaded him.
The main city in modern times is al-Salt, which was the original capital of Jordan before the government was moved to the new railroad hub of Amman.
To the Roman Empire.............................27 BCE-44 CE Simon of Peraea........................................4 BCE opposed by...
www.hostkingdom.net /Jordan.html   (888 words)

  
 Powelson Chapter 11 - China: The Puzzles of History
During the "Spring and Autumn" period (722-481 BCE), when the emperor was "first among equals" of many lords, the nobility frequently called for peasant support in their struggles with the emperor or other nobles.
The northern empire of Hsiung-nu was a constant threat until it collapsed in 58 BCE.
Rivalries in court cliques and palace intrigues during the first century BCE led to the usurpation of the throne by Wang Mang in 9 CE.
www.quaker.org /clq/wealth-and-poverty/11china.htm   (5948 words)

  
 Iversen: The Theban Exploitation of the Cult of Hera at Plataiai during the Occupation of 427-386 BCE
Iversen: The Theban Exploitation of the Cult of Hera at Plataiai during the Occupation of 427-386 BCE
The Theban Exploitation of the Cult of Hera at Plataiai during the Occupation of 427-386 BCE
In this paper the history of the Heraion at Plataiai between the end of the siege of Plataiai in 427 and the Peace of Antalkidas in 387 BCE and its impact on the Boiotian Confederacy will be discussed.
www.camws.org /meeting/2005/abstracts2005/iversen.html   (692 words)

  
 Telecom Update #361, December 9, 2002
BCE SUED OVER EXCEL, TELEGLOBE: Dallas-based VarTec Telecom, which bought multi-level marketer Excel Communications for US$250 million from BCE in April, is now suing to get its money back.
VarTec says BCE's decision to pull support from Excel's former parent, Teleglobe, violated promises it made during negotiations.
BCE says VarTec's claim is "without merit or foundation" and promises "to vigorously defend its position."
www.angustel.ca /update/up361.html   (1039 words)

  
 Under A Persian Moon: Three Weeks in the Islamic Republic of Iran
The next morning we left Tehran for Hamadan in western Iran, the home of rock inscriptions from the Achaemenian period (fifth century BCE) and the Tombs of Esther, the Jewish wife of Xerxes (486 to 465 BCE), and Mordecai, her uncle.
It appears that the city never played an administrative or commercial role in ancient Persia and may in fact have been reserved for the annual New Year celebration when envoys from around the vast empire traveled to Persepolis and passed through the Gate of All Nations to pay tribute to the king.
In 330 BCE, Alexander the Great captured Persepolis and, with the help of ten thousand horses and five thousand camels, emptied the city of its vast riches, including the famous library, which was carried off to Greece where the books were translated into Greek before the originals were destroyed.
www.on-the-matrix.com /mideast/PersianMoon.htm   (6836 words)

  
 Outcyclopedia - Plato
In 387 BCE he returned to Athens, where he founded the Academy, teaching philosophy, rhetoric and ethics, and encouraging research by his students in mathematics and science.
In 367 and again in 361, Plato tried and failed in assisting his friend Dion in molding Dion's nephew, Dionysus II into a reasoned and lettered monarch under a constitutional monarchy.
Dion was eventually murdered in 354, three years after he had resorted to deposing his nephew in order to institute the government he felt Syracuse needed.
members.fortunecity.com /outcyclopedia/plato.html   (483 words)

  
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During the Christian era, the calendar was adjusted so that DEC-25 of the year 1 BCE was believed to be the birthday of Jesus Christ.
Today, most authorities believe that Jesus was born sometime between 4 and 7 BCE, perhaps in the fall of the year.
The Jewish calendar is based on their belief of the date that the universe was created: 3761 BCE.
www.uz.ac.zw /science/cs/ct216/Calendar.txt   (1176 words)

  
 Higgaion » The Exodus Decoded: An extended review, part 6
1500 BCE is also 14–25 years after Ahmose’s death and 23–46 years after the expulsion of the Hyksos from Egypt (the dates here must be given in ranges to acknowledge the debates over the “high,” “middle,” and “low” chronologies for the 18th dynasty).
There is no doubting that there was pumice from the Thera eruption in Avaris at the turn of the 15th century BCE, but it seems entirely unrealistic to imagine that the pumice was airborne when it got to Avaris.
But that does not mean that Thera erupted around 1500 BCE, because the pumice traveled to Egypt across the Mediterranean Sea and was subsequently collected and moved from its original point(s) of landfall.
www.heardworld.com /higgaion/?p=107   (2188 words)

  
 Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Late Antiquity
Cicero (98-c.55 BCE): The Dream of Scipio [At WSU] and in Latin [At IPA]
On Tranquillity of Mind 9:4ff and in Latin [At Upenn]
Lucretius (98-c.55 BCE): The Worship of Cybele, from The Nature of Things, [This Site]
www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/asbook10.html   (664 words)

  
 Sample Lecture
In the year 3400 (361 BCE), Esther and Achashverosh’s son, Darius II, was born.
The beautiful daughter of Belshatzar, the last king of Babylon (3386-3389 [375-372 BCE]), Vashti followed in the evil ways of her notorious great-grandfather, King Nevuchadnezer (3318-3364 [442-397 BCE]).
On the night of her father Belshatzar’s murder and the fall of the Babylonian Empire (3389 [372 BCE]), twelve-year-old Vashti was awakened by the commotion in the palace.
www.jewishstudies.org /courses/purim/samplelecture.htm   (1407 words)

  
 Harappa Excavations 1995-2001 Printable Captions and Index
The surveying tripod is standing next to two Kot Diji phase kilns, and the rod is leaning against a later Harappa phase baked brick drain.
2400-2200 BCE), while the remains of the long baked brick wall (Wall 50) and later wall fragments (including Features 10-21) date to Period 3C (ca.
The bricks from the eastern part of the drain were robbed by tunneling into the sediment along the line of the drain from the East.
www.harappa.com /indus5/print_version.html   (4062 words)

  
 Jewish Heritage Questions #23
In the year 3400 (361 BCE), Esther and Achashverosh’s son, Darius II, was born.
The beautiful daughter of Belshatzar, the last king of Babylon (3386- 3389 [375-372 BCE]), Vashti followed in the evil ways of her notorious great-grandfather, King Nevuchadnezer (3318-3364 [442- 397 BCE]).
On the night of her father Belshatzar’s murder and the fall of the Babylonian Empire (3389 [372 BCE]), twelve-year-old Vashti was awakened by the commotion in the palace.
www.torahlearningcenter.com /jhq/question22.html   (890 words)

  
 The North Texas Skeptic
Disagreement still persists on Protagoras' punishment for impiety, but one of the most likely penalties was that On the Gods was burned, although quotes from the book survive in the writings of other Greek philosophers and historians.
469-399 BCE), would eventually be sentenced to death due to charges that he was causing the youth of Athens to have doubts about the gods.
361-270 BCE), a native of the Peloponnesian city of Elis, studied to became a painter in his youth until philosophy won him over.
www.ntskeptics.org /2003/2003june/june2003.htm   (4610 words)

  
 Sparta, The Conservative Ancient Greece
Amswer: In 371 BCE Thebes defeated Sparta at the battle of Leuctra.
In 725 BCE, needing land to feed a dramatically growing population, the Spartans marched over the Taygetus mountains and annexed all the territory of their neighbor, Messenia.
Pausanius was driven from Byzantium by Cimon, 476 BCE
www.fjkluth.com /sparta.html   (12638 words)

  
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30,000 BCE According to some occult traditions this period saw the colonization of Asia and Australasia by the inhabitants of the lost continent of Lemuria or Mu.
3,000 - 2,000 BCE Building of burial mounds and chambered tombs in Western Europe and the Mediterranean area; the Sphinx and the Great Pyramids of Giza and Cheops of Egypt; and the ziggurat (Towers of Babel) in Ur.
Moses leads Children of Israel out of slavery in Egypt during the reign of Ramses II to the promised land of Canaan.
www.textfiles.com /conspiracy/chron.txt   (1613 words)

  
 CTCWeb Glossary: A (Achaean Confederacy to aveste)
Cleopatra, was defeated by Agrippa at the battle of Actium in 31 BCE; he was made co-consul in 44 BCE; he married a politically active woman, Fulvia, who died in 40 BCE; Antony was part of the second triumvirate with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Octavian from 43-30 BCE.
Plato who was concerned with natural phenomena; tutor of Alexander the Great; Aristotle began teaching in Athens in 335 BCE; during that same year he founded the Lyceum (Peripatetic school); author of the Poetics, The Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, among other works; when Aristotle dies in 322 BCE, Theophrates becomes head of the Lyceum.
Persian invasion of 480 BCE, the original fortification of Athens' Acropolis were destroyed and were rebuilt in 478 BCE; the 5th century building program of Pericles resulted in the classical structures for which the Athenian Acropolis is famous; in 404 BCE the Acropolis was destroyed again by the Spartan and was rebuilt in 394 BCE.
www.ablemedia.com /ctcweb/glossary/glossarya.html   (3443 words)

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