The Claudian letters were developed by the Roman emperor Claudius (reigned 41–54). He introduced three new letters to the Latin alphabet: . Ↄ or ↃϹ/X (antisigma) to replace BS and PS, much as X stood in for CS and GS. The shape of this letter is disputed, however, since no inscription bearing it has been found. Franz Bücheler identified it with the variant Roman …

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (/ ˈ k l ɔː d i ə s /; 1 August 10 BC – 13 October AD 54) was the fourth Roman emperor, ruling from AD 41 to 54.A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, Claudius was born to Drusus and Antonia Minor at Lugdunum in Roman Gaul, where his father was stationed as a military legate.He was the first Roman emperor to be born outside Italy.

The Roman imperial cult identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority of the Roman State.Its framework was based on Roman and Greek precedents, and was formulated during the early Principate of Augustus.It was rapidly established throughout the Empire and its provinces, with marked local variations in its reception and …

Julia Agrippina (6 November AD 15 – 23 March AD 59), also referred to as Agrippina the Younger, was Roman empress from 49 to 54 AD, the fourth wife and niece of Emperor Claudius.. Agrippina was one of the most prominent women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty.She was the daughter of the Roman general Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, granddaughter of …

The Bar Kokhba revolt (Hebrew: מֶרֶד בַּר כּוֹכְבָא ‎, Mereḏ Bar Kōḵḇāʾ‎), or the 'Jewish Expedition' as the Romans named it (Latin: Expeditio Judaica), was a rebellion by the Jews of the Roman province of Judea, led by Simon bar Kokhba, against the Roman Empire.Fought c. 132–136 CE, it was the last of three major Jewish–Roman wars, so it is also known as the ...

Psi / ˈ (p) s aɪ, ˈ (p) s iː / (uppercase Ψ, lowercase ψ; Greek: ψι psi) is the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet and is associated with a numeric value of 700. In both Classical and Modern Greek, the letter indicates the combination /ps/ (as in English word "lapse").. For Greek loanwords in Latin and modern languages with Latin alphabets, psi is usually transliterated as "ps".

Julio-Claudian dynasty. The Julio-Claudian dynasty was established by Augustus. The emperors of this dynasty were Augustus, ... The ancient Roman week originally had eight days, which were identified by letters A to H, with the eighth day being the nundinum or market day, a kind of weekend when farmers sold their produce on the streets.

Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions. While the movement's characteristics vary from nation to nation, it almost always utilizes a form of …

The Praetorian Guard (Latin: cohortēs praetōriae) was a unit of the Imperial Roman army that served as personal bodyguards and intelligence agents for the Roman emperors.During the Roman Republic, the Praetorian Guard were an escort for high-rank political officials (senators and procurators) and were bodyguards for the senior officers of the Roman legions.

English. In English orthography, c generally represents the "soft" value of / s / before the letters e (including the Latin-derived digraphs ae and oe , or the corresponding ligatures æ and œ ), i , and y , and a "hard" value of / k / before any other letters or at the end of a word. However, there are a number of exceptions in English: "soccer" and "Celt" are words that have / k / where / s ...