Marcus livius drusus biography of george
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Livia gens
Ancient långnovell family
For the Roman historian Titus Livius, see Livy.
The gens Livia was an illustrious plebeian family at ancient Rome. The first of the Livii to obtain the consulship was Marcus Livius Denter in 302 BC, and from his time the Livii supplied the Republic with eight consuls, two censors, a dictator, and a master of the horse. Members of the gens were honoured with three triumphs. In the reign of Augustus, Livia Drusilla was långnovell empress, and her son was the emperor Tiberius.[1][2]
Origin
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Classics & Ancient History The Beginnings of Empire, 168-27 BC
A picture is less like a statement or speech act, then, than like a speaker capable of an infinite number of utterances. An image is not a text to be read but a ventriloquist's dummy into which we project our own voice.
W.J.T. Mitchell, What Do Pictures Want? p. 140
| 'Zeus / Warrior' Coin from Sicily (Bahrfeldt 2) |
This sentence encompasses the problems of ambiguity and meaning that have been the focus of several previous blogs. Since I posted about the ambiguity of images used by the Romans in Macedonia, I have come across several more examples that show a similar tendency. One is shown to the right, part of the 'Zeus / warrior' coin series struck by the Romans in Sicily. These coins are entangled objects: released by the Romans and carrying references to Roman quaestors in Latin (in this case via the Q for quaestor and a monogram spelling MAL on the far right), the design was likely create
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Ptolemy Philadelphus
M, #451, b. 036 BCE, d. 012 BCE
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Ptolemy Philadelphus was born in 036 BCE. He died in 012 BCE, at age ~24.
Ptolemy Philadelphus (36 - 12 BC) was the youngest child of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. Augustus Caesar took him and his sister Cleopatra Selene back to Rome as captives after their parents killed themselves (and their two brothers died) in 30 BC, and they lived with Octavia, who was Augustus's sister and had been Antony's wife. Ptolemy became a chariot racer and died in an accident on the track, competing against his chief rival, Antipater, the son of King Herod the Great of Judea.
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Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus
M, #452, b. about 091 BCE
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Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus was born about 091 BCE in Rome, Italy. He died in Philippi Greece.
Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus was the father of the Roman Empr