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Modern historians distinguish this later phase of the Roman Empire as Byzantine due to the imperial seat moving from Rome to Byzantium, the Empire's integration of Christianity, and the predominance of Greek instead of Latin. The Byzantine Empire was the direct legal continuation of the eastern half of the Roman Empire following the division of ...
List of Roman emperors. The Prima Porta statue of Augustus ( r. 27 BC – AD 14), the first Roman emperor. The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title Augustus to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward. [ 1] Augustus maintained a facade of Republican rule, rejecting monarchical titles but ...
Chronology. Classical antiquity in the Mediterranean region is commonly considered to have begun in the 8th century BC [ 5] (around the time of the earliest recorded poetry of Homer) and ended in the 6th century AD. Classical antiquity in Greece was preceded by the Greek Dark Ages ( c. 1200 – c. 800 BC ), archaeologically characterised by the ...
George II (Γεώργιος Βʹ) 27 September 1922 – 25 March 1924. 1 year, 160 days. 19 July 1890 Athens, Kingdom of Greece Son of Constantine I of Greece and Sophia of Prussia. Elisabeth of Romania 27 February 1921 Divorced 6 July 1935 (after this reign) No children. 1 April 1947 Athens, Kingdom of Greece Aged 56.
Ramesseum king list (19th Dynasty); carved on limestone. Contains most of the New Kingdom pharaohs up to Ramesses II. Saqqara Tablet (19th Dynasty), carved on limestone. Very detailed, but omitting most kings of the 1st Dynasty for unknown reasons. Turin King List (19th Dynasty); written with red and black ink on papyrus.
The Roman deities most widely known today are those the Romans identified with Greek counterparts (see interpretatio graeca), integrating Greek myths, iconography, and sometimes religious practices, into Roman culture, including Latin literature, Roman art, and religious life as it was experienced throughout the Empire.
Pandion I, a king of Athens. Pandion II, a king of Athens. Peleus, king of the Myrmidons and father of Achilles; he sailed with the Argonauts and participated in the Calydonian boar hunt. Pelias, a king of Iolcus and usurper of Aeson's rightful throne. Pelops, a king of Pisa and founder of the House of Atreus.
The early Athenian tradition, followed by the 3rd century BC Parian Chronicle, made Cecrops, a mythical half-man half-serpent, the first king of Athens. [4] The dates for the following kings were conjectured centuries later, by historians of the Hellenistic era who tried to backdate events by cross-referencing earlier sources such as the Parian Chronicle.