After the defeat of the Romans entrusted the conduct of the war to Mark Licinius Crassus, although not differing natural endowments, but acquired in the school of Sulla’s experience in the military. Crassus was one of the leaders of the then dominant oligarchy; so he could have a much larger number of troops than all […]

At a time when Pompey was struggling with the rebellion of Sertorius in Spain, another General of the same party, Marcus Licinius Crassus, rendered a great service to the Roman state, suppressed in Italy the terrible slave revolt of Spartacus, which at one time threatened to become very dangerous. The troops of the Roman government […]

Aristides the Athenian, of noble birth, the son of Lysimachus, of the tribe Antioxidase. Still in his youth simply for his honesty earned the nickname the Fair. Before the battle of Marathon, Aristides, chiefs his knee (filoi), was one of ten polemarchus, or generals, who alternated daily in the main administration. Seeing the harm caused […]

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1091 – 1153) came from noble Burgansky names, who had his family residence, the castle of Fontaine, near Dijon. His biography of his youth was connected with the Church. Mother Bernarda was a woman ascetic direction, wanted to be a nun, married against their will. Children inherited the austerity of the […]

An Italian sailor by the name of which was called America. He was born March 9, 1451 in Florence, and died February 22, 1512 in Seville, Spain. Amerigo was educated and studied with his uncle Anthony Vespucci, a famous scientist. In 1490 he travelled as a merchant in Spain, where in Seville he enrolled in […]

King of England, youngest son of king Aethelwulf, and Asbury; b. in 849 in Berkshire. His grandfather Egbert, king of Wessex, at the beginning of the IX century United all the small Anglo-Saxon kingdoms into one state — England. For 5-year-old boy Alfred was sent to Rome to be anointed by Pope Leo IV. A […]

Allodium (Allodium, alleu) – in feudal law form independent of land tenure. The word “allodium” is found in the barbaric truths in the form of alodis (Salic law, 59), where it means the inheritance by law (according to some, inheritance is exclusively movable). In the feudal era, in the XI – XIII centuries, the term […]

The first king of the Visigoths; born. About 376 A. D. for lying in the mouth of the Danube island Pace and belonged to the family of Balts. After the death of Theodosius the Great in 395, who settled in the Roman Empire, the Visigoths chose as their king the 19-year-old Alaric, who during the […]

Alcibiades was one of the finest of the Athenian statesmen and generals; son of Kliniy and Tanamacha, rod. In Athens 451 B. C. and Lost in the battle of Coronea (447) father, he was raised then in the house of his relative, the famous Pericles. Already at a young age we see him next with […]

The Senate and the Imperial consistory under Hadrian Hadrian took the sample itself in August. He refused to Asian conquests of Trajan and wanted the government was limited to those outside, which was at Augusta, where he imitated and domestic policy, and in the patronage of the arts and literature. Adrian wanted to abandon Dacia […]