On Sunday we were in Pompeii. Since the world is a world, there have always been misfortunes and catastrophes, but few that have captivated humanity like the one that happened in that city. I can think of no other that has aroused so much interest.Goethe, Trip to Italy, March 13, 1787 POMPEII.
The defeat at Salamis dismayed Xerxes. Mardonius, the mastermind behind the Persian invasion of Greece begged Xerxes to withdraw. He himself would remain with 300,000 elite soldiers behind and conquer Greece the following summer. Xerxes was soon convinced and left, with the army suffering terribl
We are going to take a walk through ancient Rome and check, thanks to the Edict of Maximum Prices or Edict of Diocletian , what wages some professions received and what prices they had to face. Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletian Augustus , for friends Diocletian , was born into a humble family and c
Pontokerasia is a small mountain village in the prefecture of Kilkis on the border with the prefecture of Serres. In 1946, the 4th Company of the 567th Infantry Battalion of the 37th Brigade of the X Infantry Division was stationed there. The company, under captain Michael Stefanou, had 120 men and