Rome

3 09, 2017

Second Punic War – Carthage and Rome

By |2018-04-25T10:05:10-07:00September 3rd, 2017|History, Romans|Comments Off on Second Punic War – Carthage and Rome

Hamilcar (Hannibal's father) (We know about this mainly from Polybius and Livy) The Carthaginians had a lot of trouble paying the money the Romans demanded from them after the First Punic War. So their general Hamilcar decided to [...]

31 08, 2017

Trajan’s Markets – Roman architecture

By |2019-10-19T10:42:32-07:00August 31st, 2017|Architecture, Romans|Comments Off on Trajan’s Markets – Roman architecture

The view from Trajan's Markets Why did Trajan build a new forum? After the Forum of Julius Caesar and the Forum of Augustus, later emperors also built more extensions on to the Roman Forum, [...]

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