Shortly thereafter, the Romans pacified Sicily and entered into an alliance with the Aetolian League to counter Phillip V. Philip, who attempted to exploit Rome's preoccupation in Italy to conquer Illyria, now found himself under attack from several sides at once and was quickly subdued by Rome and her Greek allies.

Rome's size increased as Ancus used diplomacy peacefully to join some of the smaller surrounding cities into alliance with Rome.

The earliest certain cult to dea Roma was established at Smyrna in 195 BCE, probably to mark Rome's successful alliance against Antiochus III.

In a speech they proposed an alliance between Rome and Capua, noting how the Campani with their famous wealth could be of aid to the Romans, pointing out that nothing in Rome's treaty with the Samnites prevented them from also making a treaty with the Campani, and warning that if they did not, the Samnites would conquer Campania and its strength would be added to the Samnites ' instead of to the Romans '.

After hearing of Rome's disastrous defeat at the hands of Hannibal at Cannae in 216 BC, Philip sent ambassadors to Hannibal's camp in Italy to negotiate an alliance.

In 215 BC, however, Philip formed an alliance with Rome's enemy Carthage, which drew Rome directly into Greek affairs for the first time.

At the war's conclusion, Mavia's daughter, Princess Chasidat, was married to a devout Nicene commander in Rome's army, Victor, to cement the alliance.

During 248 AD, Philip the Arab celebrated Rome's first millennium, together with Ludi saeculares for Rome's alleged tenth saeculum.

In 72 BC, his troops occupied the Greek coastal cities of Scythia Minor ( modern Dobruja region, Romania / Bulgaria ), which had sided with Rome's Hellenistic arch-enemy, king Mithridates VI of Pontus, in the Third Mithridatic War ( 73-63 BC ).

Regarding his attitude towards the Holy See, although with Celtic warmth and flow of words he could defend mere custom, there is nothing in his strongest expressions which implies that he for a moment doubted Rome's supreme authority.

After several unsuccessful battles with the Boii and other Celtic tribes, they appeared ca 113 BC in Noricum, where they invaded the lands of one of Rome's allies, the Taurisci.

Leo provided his legates, one of whom died en route, with a letter addressed to Flavian of Constantinople explaining Rome's position in the controversy.

However, fearing that withholding Rome's approval would be interpreted as a rejection of the entire council, in 453 the pope confirmed the council ’ s canons with a protest against the 28th.

The Fourth Council of the Lateran was convoked by Pope Innocent III with the papal bull of April 19, 1213, and the Council gathered at Rome's Lateran Palace beginning November 11, 1215.

While Graphic Design as a discipline has a relatively recent history, with the term " graphic design " first coined by William Addison Dwiggins in 1922, graphic design-like activities span the history of humankind: from the caves of Lascaux, to Rome's Trajan's Column to the illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages, to the dazzling neons of Ginza.

He assumed the title Britannicus, but the title meant little with regard to the unconquered north, which ( with Rome's power still ending at the Wall ) clearly remained outside the authority of the Empire.

Some of Rome's Gallic allies had been defeated by their rivals at the Battle of Magetobriga, with the help of a contingent of Germanic tribes.

Adriano La Regina ( former Rome ’ s archaeological superintendent 1976-2004, professor of Etruscology at Rome ’ s La Sapienza University ), Professor Fausto Zevi ( professor of Roman Archaeology at Rome's La Sapienza University ) and Professor Henner von Hesberg ( head of the German Archaeological Institute, Rome ) denied the identification of the grotto with Lupercal on topographic and stylistic grounds.

Octavian responded with treason charges: of illegally keeping provinces that should be given to other men by lots, as was Rome's tradition, and of starting wars against foreign nations ( Armenia and Parthia ) without the consent of the Senate.

* 222 – Pope Callixtus I is killed by a mob in Rome's Trastevere after a 5-year reign in which he had stabilized the Saturday fast three times per year, with no food, oil, or wine to be consumed on those days.

During the height of the Roman Empire, famous historians such as Polybius, Livy and Plutarch documented the rise of the Roman Republic, and the organization and histories of other nations, while statesmen like Julius Caesar, Cicero and others provided us with examples of the politics of the republic and Rome's empire and wars.

Peter Green suggests it would be well to remember Polybius was chronicling Rome's history for a Greek audience with the aim of convincing them of the necessity of accepting Roman rule – which he believed was inevitable.

The onlooker with his staff, could be Aeneas, a hero of the Trojan Wars who saved his father by carrying over his back ( hence his hunched position, and his Trojan beard ) and who is believed to have founded Rome, and from whom the Julian clan, thus Julius Caesar and Attia, claimed descent, witnessing the conception of Rome's future savior as an Empire, and the greatest of all the Emperors.

Rome's history spans more than two and a half thousand years, since its founding in 753 BC, with the union of rural villages.

Numa constructed a new temple to Janus and, after establishing peace with Rome's neighbours, shut the doors of the temple to indicate a state of peace.

He is credited with the institution of the Compitalia festivals, the building of temples to Fortuna and Diana, and the invention of Rome's first true coinage.

Rome's influence was also felt in the near east, as crumbling Hellenistic states like the Seleucid Empire were forced to make treaties on Roman terms in order to avoid confrontation with the new masters of the western Mediterranean.

Ships laden with wheat from North Africa sail 300 miles to Rome's port of Ostia in 3 days, and the 1, 000 mile voyage from Alexandria averages 13 days.

The rest of the war was carried out mostly by Rome's allies, the Aetolian League and later the Kingdom of Pergamon, but a combined Roman-Pergamene fleet of ca.

Scerdilaidas with his son Pleuratus III, Longarus of the Dardanian State and Epirus, together with the Aetolian League allied with each other in accordance to Rome's response.

* The Latin War ends with the Latin League being dissolved and the individual Latin cities having to accept Rome's terms.

The stadium will then join Rome's Stadio Olimpico, Munich's Olympic Stadium and London's Wembley Stadium as the only stadia to have hosted the finals of the FIFA World Cup, UEFA's European Cup / Champions League and featured as a main stadium of the Summer Olympic Games.

This displeased the Achaean League, Rome's allies in Greece, who wanted Macedon to be dismantled completely.

Octavian made another bold move in 44 BC when without official permission he appropriated the annual tribute that had been sent from Rome's Near Eastern province

Q. Fabius Pictor ( c. 250 BC ) tells that Roman consuls started for the first time 239 years after Rome's foundation.

Caesar's conquest of Gaul, completed by 51 BC, extended Rome's territory to the English Channel and the Rhine.

In 32 BC, the Senate deprived him of his powers and declared war against Cleopatra – not Antony, because Octavian had no wish to advertise his role in perpetuating Rome's internecine bloodshed.

Polybius's The Histories provides a detailed account of Rome's ascent to empire and included his eyewitness account of the Sack of Carthage in 146 BC.

He mainly discusses the years in which Ancient Rome rose to superpower status from 220 BC to 167 BC, describing Rome's efforts in subduing its arch enemy, Carthage, and thereby becoming the dominant Mediterranean force.

The Gauls destroyed much of Rome's historical records when they sacked the city after the Battle of the Allia in 390 BC ( Varronian, according to Polybius the battle occurred in 387 / 6 ) and what was left was eventually lost to time or theft.

Roman and Greek sources describe his servile origins and later marriage to a daughter of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Rome's first Etruscan king, who was assassinated in 579 BC.

* 509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.

* September 13, 509 BC — The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.

The Roman proconsul and general Julius Caesar pushed his army into Gaul in 58 BC, on the pretext of assisting Rome's Gaullish allies against the migrating Helvetii.

Surprisingly this is very close to the calculation of the founding given by Rome's first native historical writer, Quintus Fabius Pictor, who wrote that Rome was founded in the first year of the eighth Olympiad, 747 BC ( Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Book 1, ch.

In response to the first threat, Rome's best general, Lucius Licinius Lucullus ( consul in 74 BC ), was sent to defeat Mithridates, followed shortly by his brother Varro Lucullus ( consul in 73 BC ).

* 753 BC — The city of Rome and the Roman Kingdom is founded, according to Roman tradition, and is ruled by Rome's first king, Romulus.

Coins of Arsaos, Navarre, 150 – 100 BC, showing Ancient Rome | Rome's stylistic influence

In the 1st century BC, Acarnania suffered greatly at the hands of pirates, and in Rome's civil wars.

Although in the later Empire the office was titled praetor inter cives et peregrinos (" among citizens and foreigners ," that is, having jurisdiction in disputes between citizens and noncitizens ), in the 3rd century BC Rome's territorial annexations and foreign populations were unlikely to require a new office dedicated solely to this task.

Cicero ( 106 BC – 43 BC ), full name Marcus Tullius Cicero, was a Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, philosopher and one of Rome's greatest orators.