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Pontus, Cappadocia, and Pergamun Pontus A Multilingual Region The northern coast of Asia Minor, known as Pontus, was dominated by a feudal Persian nobility. Despite its...

Unhappy Marriages and Poisoned Kings The marriage between Antiochus II and Berenice turned out to be far from happy. After a brief period, Antiochus abandoned...

During its zenith around 300 B.C., the Seleucid Kingdom, led by Seleucus Nicator, spanned approximately 1.5 million square miles. Despite being considered Alexander’s true...

By the fourth century, historians must pay much more attention to Christians of various stripes and their doings. No reader has to search very...

Augustus, princeps—those are the most solemn titles of empire. The Latin voice here belongs to the grandee in charge of draining the swamps, who...

Not, Theoderic assures the Verrucans, that they need to be so cautious “in our times”—but it’s always good to prepare for storms in times...

And when they came to their lord`s grave they took the head of Kot- suk£ no Suke, and, having washed it clean in a...

As they were on their way to Takanawa, the suburb in which the temple called Sengakuji stands, the day broke; and the people flocked...

But Jiutaro wrested the dirk from him, and clutching him by the collar, dragged him out of the outhouse. Then the other Ronin came...

Spurred by these words, Chikara seized a spear and gave battle to Waku Handaiyu, but could not hold his ground, and backing by degrees,...