Elagabalus was a Roman emperor of the early third century who has not gone down in history with a good reputation. Kovalyov describes it as “corrupt to the extreme” and “sexual pervert” , while Gibbon says that he gave himself over to grosser pleasures and uncontrolled fury . Nor did his contempor
Apolonio Molón, also known as Molón de Rodas, was certainly cool . In the first decades of the 1st century B.C. there was no more famous orator in the entire Mediterranean. He was born in Alabanda, a Greek city in Caria (today present-day Doganyurt on the southwestern coast of Turkey). He studied un
Suetonius tells in the book dedicated to Claudius of his Life of the Twelve Caesars that this invented three letters that he believed were of great need and which he wanted to add to the alphabet. Before he became emperor he had already published a book on this subject; when he was, he did not enco
The pancracy It was one of the most popular sports in ancient Greece, a type of combat that combined boxing with wrestling and other techniques such as strangulation or tripping. Actually, more or less, everything was allowed except biting and sticking your fingers in the opponents eyes. It was one
At the death of Alexander the Great, his fabulous domains were distributed among the generals of the army, among whom there were their pluses and minuses to get the largest portion of the cake. In the end, the winner in this distribution - with the permission of Ptolemy, who stayed with the rich Egy
When we talk about a slave rebellion in Ancient Rome, the name of Spartacus inevitably comes to mind. It is logical for several reasons, from the dimensions of the revolt -which came to threaten the capital itself- to the legendary tone that it reached thanks to novels and movies, through the fact t
It is often said that history is written by the victors. But obviously for this they need someone to do the work. One of the earliest known forgers in history lived in 5th century BC Athens, and he was actually much more than that. His name was Onomacritus, and this is what is known about him. He w
The Medes were a people from the current north of Iran who came to control a large area of territory that included Mesopotamia and the eastern Anatolian peninsula. From the birth of the Medo kingdom around the year 678 B.C. they were always vassals of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. But that ended betwee
Although the most famous natural disaster in the Aegean Sea was probably the brutal eruption of the Tera volcano in the middle of the second millennium BC, as a result of which the island of Santorini has remained and whose effects are theorized to have caused a tsunami large enough to arrive in Egy
Mass attendance at a public show considerably multiplies the potential possibility that the degree of tragedy it produces will be greater in the event of an accident or any other type of negative incidence. That is why nightclubs, concerts and football stadiums are usually the places where the most
On July 21, 356 B.C. a man subjected to torture confessed the reason for his crime to the executioner in the presence of the very King of kings, the Achaemenid sovereign of Persia Artaxerxes III. He was not a pusillanimous monarch precisely because, according to the usual custom, he had ordered the
Throughout the history of mankind, the color blue has been one of the most valued, identified for this reason with royalty and divinity, due to the difficulty of obtaining it. Blue pigments have been used since ancient times, but later than others such as red, black, brown or ochre, which are easie
The ancient trade routes were much more extensive than many people think today and they also developed in multiple directions. Some to the east, like that of La Seda, which began around the 1st century BC; another, known as the Frankincense, crossed the Near and Middle East... Most traveled the Med
A few days ago we recounted in an article the voyage of the Carthaginian navigator Himilcón across the Atlantic, surrounding the Iberian Peninsula, traveling along the French coast and reaching the British Isles, probably to trade in tin. However, the most famous journey that we have news of followi
Circa 310 B.C. was born in the city of Solos Arato, one of the most renowned poets of antiquity. The ancient Soli Greek, which the Romans renamed Pompeyópolis , is located today in the Turkish province of Mersin, in the south of the country on the Cilician coast. It had been founded around the year
Being left-handed is not easy, neither in Antiquity nor today. At all times and in all civilizations there was a bias bias in favor of right-handers. In fact the right it was associated with the good, ceremonies, food, the gods, healing... while the left was for all the bad things, such as curses, i
It is curious that the oldest cathedral in Christianity does not present the simple and original beauty of the Romanesque, the exquisite and archetypal majesty of the Gothic, the classical Renaissance evocation or the overwhelming magnificence of the Baroque. It is a question of a building that is d
Throughout history, men have not had enough to tear each other to pieces in endless wars but have incorporated all kinds of animals into the massacres, from the most orthodox such as horses, mules, elephants and dogs to others somewhat more rare , case of pigs engulfed in fire, birds set on fire to
It was not necessary to wait for 1911 for the first revolution in China to take place , although the one that took place that year has retained that name (or that of Xinhai, corresponding to its equivalent date in the traditional calendar). Throughout the evolution of the eastern giant there were s
Very recently, Professor Mary Beard , brand new Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences 2016, she explained in an interview the genocidal character of some actions of the Roman Empire. And, indeed, although the Romans carried out various barbarities that could be adjusted to that descriptio
The totalitarian regimes are based on a centralizing, undemocratic and authoritarian state. These governments emerged after the First World War (1914-1918) in several European countries from the crisis of capitalism and liberalism. Abstract Totalitarianism was a conservative reaction to democracy
Jinnah considered Pakistan as his creation and behaved like an autocratic ruler, so soon after the formation of Pakistan, Jinnahs companions started ignoring Jinnah. Pakistani journalist Jamar Niazi published his book Press in Chains It is written in- Jinnah was completely disillusioned with the Pak
The French Revolution , which took place in 1789, was the event that, according to some authors, inaugurated the so-called Contemporary Age . The historians of the 19th century, who made the dividing line in History, attributed to this event the character of a divider mark between the Modern and Con
Jinnahs Na……! On July 10, 1946, Jawaharlal Nehru told reporters in a press conference that- Congress is not bound by agreements and it is ready to face any situation as it has been doing till now. It is……. The Muslim League interpreted Nehrus statement to mean that the Congress would amend the