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Vor 5 Tagen · This caused Sextus to lose many valuable allies as the formerly exiled senators gradually aligned themselves with either Octavian or Antony. To secure the peace, Octavian betrothed Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Octavian's three-year-old nephew and Antony's stepson, to Sextus' daughter Pompeia.
Vor 5 Tagen · Further, he was causing political problems by desiring to have his nephew Marcus Claudius Marcellus follow in his footsteps and eventually assume the principate in his turn, alienating his three greatest supporters: Agrippa, Maecenas, and Livia.
17. Mai 2024 · One story told about Archimedes’ death is that he was killed by a Roman soldier after he refused to leave his mathematical work. However Archimedes died, the Roman general Marcus Claudius Marcellus regretted his death because Marcellus admired Archimedes for the many clever machines he had built to defend Syracuse.
- Archimedes was a mathematician who lived in Syracuse on the island of Sicily. His father, Phidias, was an astronomer, so Archimedes continued in th...
- Archimedes found that the volume of a sphere is two-thirds the volume of a cylinder that encloses it. He also discovered a law of buoyancy, Archime...
- Archimedes wrote nine treatises that survive. In On the Sphere and Cylinder, he showed that the surface area of a sphere with radius r is 4πr2 and...
- Almost nothing is known about Archimedes’ family other than that his father, Phidias, was an astronomer. The Greek historian Plutarch wrote that Ar...
Vor 4 Tagen · Marcus Aurelius Claudius Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius (Valerius) Claudius pius felix invictus Augustus pontifex maximus, Germanicus maximus Gothicus maximus Parthicus maximus, tribunicia potestate III, consul, pater patriae, proconsul
Vor 3 Tagen · The Roman magistrates who conquered the Greek world were fitted into this tradition; games were set up in honor of Marcus Claudius Marcellus, when he conquered Sicily at the end of the Second Punic War, as the Olympian games were for Zeus; they were kept up for a century and a half until another Roman governor abolished them, to make ...
5. Mai 2024 · In 211 BC, the Roman siege and the sack of Syracuse, led by Roman commander Marcus Claudius Marcellus, marked its Hellenistic downfall. Despite the ingenious inventions of Archimedes, the city succumbed to Roman rule.
Vor 3 Tagen · Marcus Claudius Marcellus Marcellus was able to halt Hannibal’s advance for a time.©Capitoline Museums / Public Domain – Original / License. Rome has its share of the greatest warriors, but Marcus Claudius Marcellus is the stuff of legends. From a young age, he began winning campaigns and accolades for his conduct on the battlefield ...
