... abandoned Greece and went to Asia due to the fact that there was a greater force of troops there. Cassius and Brutus faced Antony at Philippi. The first battle resulted in Brutus defeating Octavian and Antony defeating Cassius, and each man captured the other's camp. Cassius, fearing his comrade Brutus was dead, committed suicide. This shocking event took away the best commander they had ... ...
... ). There were plans for repairs in some houses at Pompeii and Oplonti Villa when the eruption occurred. This can be considered evidence of intensive seismic shaking of the buildings. Dio Cassius (150-235 AD) also reports some precursors of the eruption. He said that for several days before the eruptions, there were many earthquakes and subterranean rumblings and giants wandering on ... ...
... senate, the populace and the soldier should join together in shouting their approval of her demands on every occasion. She was amassing untold wealth from him, overlooking no possible source". (Cassius Dio, Roman history 61.31.1-3) Now that Agrippina was at the top of things in Rome, "she was striking venomously around her" and her enemies conveniently disappeared for the next ... ...
... adopted son of Julius Caesar, Octavian, who had in the same year of Tiberius" birth, along with Marc Antony, avenged the assassination of his adoptive father by defeating Brutus and Cassius, made an important political and personal move. His decision was to divorce his wife Scribonia and facilitate a divorce between Tiberius" parents, Tiberius Nero and the pregnant Livia. Octavian ignored all ... ...
