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  • claim that Spartacus was born in Thrace. Appian said he was "a Thracian ... himself when he was cut down." Appian, however, reports that his ...
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  • C.E., at his estate at the eighth milestone on the Appian Way. He was 28 years old. He bequeathed a sum of money and his library, containing his satires ...
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  • to be buried in an ancient sarcophagus on the Appian Way, but he died a Christian. Pope Alexander VI requested a magnificent funeral for him at ...
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  • Siculus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Appian of Alexandria, Arrian, and ... Appian and Arrian both lived in the second century C.E. Appian wrote ...
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  • that of Prætextatus, on the left side of the Appian Way, nearly opposite the famous cemetery of Saint Callixtus, where Christians often congregated ...
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  • toward Rome or Southern Italy along the nearby Appian Way. ===First century B.C.E.=== [[Image:Pompeii.jpg|right|thumb|The Forum]] [[Image:PompeiiStreet ...
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  • kind of necropolis can be found on the Appian Way just outside Rome and ... to be lined with tombs and mausoleums; the Appian Way outside Rome provides ...
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  • are recorded by later historians, such as Appian, Suetonius, Plutarch, Cassius ... * [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Appian/Civil_Wars/2 ...
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  • 287 C.E.) and the fact that he was buried along the Appian Way, as recorded in the Depositio Martyrum (354 C.E.). David Hugh Farmer. The Oxford ...
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  • uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Appian/Civil_Wars/2*.html App. Civ. II.102], although the latter may well refer to a statue, and [http://penelope ...
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  • Livy (as far as we know), Lucan, Florus, Suetonius, Appian, and even Athenaeus—apparently knew nothing of the burning of the Museum, of the Library ...
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  • | casualties2 = Plutarch and Appian:1,000,000 Celts killed in ... * Appian. Delphi Complete Works of Appian (Illustrated). Landenberg ...
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  • *Gowing, Alain M. 1992. The triumviral narratives of Appian and Cassius Dio. Michigan monographs in classical antiquity. Ann Arbor: University ...
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  • [[Image:Via appia.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Appian Way, constructed in the fourth century B.C.E.]] [[Image:Roman ruins.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Forum ...
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  • public areas, especially near roads such as the Appian Way, where many would walk by to view the frightening power of the state. The most famous ...
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  • popular leader and, according to the historian Appian, "had the power any popular leader could possibly have." Cicero supported Marcus Junius ...
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  • and Roman historians, such as Livy, Polybius, Appian, Cornelius Nepos, Silius Italicus, Plutarch, Dio Cassius, and Herodotus. These authors were ...
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