Late Roman World and its Historian.

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while " some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning " summer's end ".

Historian best known for his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

* Livy, Roman Historian

The Greek historian Herodotus described the hippopotamus in The Histories ( written circa 440 BC ) and the Roman Historian Pliny the Elder wrote about the hippopotamus in his encyclopedia Naturalis Historia ( written circa 77 AD ).

Historian and humanist Michael Grant lists the battle of Tours in the macrohistorical dates of the Roman era.

Historian Ronald Hutton has argued that there is no necessary correlation between the worship of female deities and relative levels of social or legal egalitarianism, noting the late classical Greek and Roman religions, in which goddesses played important roles.

* Matthias Ephlias, paternal ancestor of the Roman Jewish Historian Josephus

* Matthias Curtus, paternal great-grandfather of the Roman Jewish Historian Josephus

* Matthias, father of the Roman Jewish Historian Josephus

* Matthias, brother of the Roman Jewish Historian Josephus

* Flavius Simonides Agrippa, fifth son of Roman Jewish Historian Josephus

Historian Johann Huizinga writes, “ It is astonishing that the Church, which so rigorously repressed the slightest deviations from dogma of a speculative character, suffered the teaching of this breviary of the aristocracy ( for the Roman de la Rose was nothing else ) to be disseminated with impunity .”

B. Metzler, Stuttgart, 1920 ), adding sketches of the work's content and significance, and author biography: Ronald T. Ridley " Friedrich Münzer's Roman Aristocratic Parties and Families ", XIX-XXXVIII ; Thérèse Ridley " The Fate of a Historian ", XXXIX-LVII ; and a photograph of Münzer opposite the title page translation

* Flavius Simonides Agrippa, son of Roman Jewish Historian Josephus

Historian John Foster defined it as "... the Roman Empire, or rather that part of it which alone was known to the Chinese, Syria.

Historian Theodore Mommsen estimated that under Hadrian nearly 1 / 3 of the eastern Numidia population ( roughly modern Tunisia ) was descended from Roman veterans.

Historian John Newman has described the walls as " easily the most impressive town defence to survive from Roman Britain, and in its freedom from later rebuilding one of the most perfectly preserved in Northern Europe.

Historian Michael Rostovtzeff and economist Ludwig von Mises both argued that unsound economic policies played a key role in the impoverishment and decay of the Roman Empire.

Among his friends was the late philosopher Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus, Greek Historian Plutarch and Roman Senator Pliny the Younger.

Historian James Cowan described many of the chants as " simply meaningless strings of English words rounded into the softer Māori ; others were either transliterations or mispronunciations of parts of the Church of England services, with a sprinkling of Latin from the Roman Catholic ritual.

Historian Ronald Mellor considers it " Tacitus's crowning achievement " which represents the " pinnacle of Roman historical writing ".

Historian Ronald Mellor considers it " Tacitus's crowning achievement " which represents the " pinnacle of Roman historical writing ".

* Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 70,

* Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 80

The Roman historians Suetonius and Cassius Dio record that in 23 BC, Augustus prepared a rationarium ( account ) which listed public revenues, the amounts of cash in the aerarium ( treasury ), in the provincial fisci ( tax officials ), and in the hands of the publicani ( public contractors ); and that it included the names of the freedmen and slaves from whom a detailed account could be obtained.

( Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 60: 20 )

* Dio Cassius Roman History ( ca.

Cassius Dio says that Roman financiers, including Seneca the Younger, chose this time to call in their loans.

* Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 50

The same year, they defeated another Roman army under the consul Gaius Cassius Longinus, who was killed at the Battle of Burdigala ( modern day Bordeaux ).

* Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 59

Cassius Dio claimed to represent the voices of the Roman street ; Caesar's munus was a waste of lives – and of money, better doled out to needy army veterans.

Upon the death of Deiotarus, the Kingdom of Galatia was given to Amyntas, an auxiliary commander in the Roman army of Brutus and Cassius who gained the favor of Mark Antony.

The tribes began a joint invasion of Gaul, including the Roman Provincia Narbonensis, which led to the Tigurini ’ s victory over a Roman army under L. Cassius Longinus near Agendicum in 107 BC, in which the consul was killed.

* 44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.

The Parthian Empire had supported Brutus and Cassius in the civil war, sending forces which fought with them at Philippi ; following Antony and Octavian's victory, the Parthians invaded Roman territory, occupying Syria, advancing into Asia Minor and installing Antigonus as puppet king in Judaea to replace the pro-Roman Hyrcanus.

* Dio Cassius, Roman History 40: 33-41, 43: 19

Sextus Pompey becomes supreme commander of the Roman navy and Gaius Cassius proconsul of Syria.

* Avidius Cassius, Roman general and usurper ( d. 175 )

* Dio Cassius, Roman historian

* March 15 ( the Ides of March ) – Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is assassinated by a group of Roman senators, amongst them Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Junius Brutus, and Caesar's Massilian naval commander, Decimus Brutus.

* A Roman military operation under Avidius Cassius is successful against Parthia, capturing Artaxata, Seleucia on the Tigris, and Ctesiphon.

* Avidius Cassius fails in seeking support for his rebellion and is assassinated by Roman officers.

* July – Avidius Cassius, Roman Emperor ( usurper )

* Gaius Cassius Longinus, Roman politician ( died 42 BC )