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Julius Caesar is one of the most important people in the history of the world.

Marcian became emperor in the East after Theodosius of legal code fame.

Jugurtha of North Africa fought against the Romans.

Mardonius was a Persian commander in the Greco-Persian Wars.

In Egyptian legend, the first king of Egypt is said to have been Menes.

The great Roman leader Gaius Marius came into power largely by defeating the African king Jugurtha in what is called the Jugurthine War, and written about by Sallust.

Information on the Babylonian king Hammurabi who is well-known for his lega decisions, the Code of Hammurabi.

During the Gallic invasion of Italy between the first and second Punic Wars, Marcellus was declared consul for the first time (222) by the interreges after the election of Flaminius and Furius was declared invalid by the augurs.

Guest bio of Marcellus, by Bingley.

Lucullus first came to public notice when he brought charges against Servilius the Auger, who had been responsible for Lucullus' father's conviction for peculation. However, he did not start seeking public office until his younger brother, Marcus, was old enough to do so as well.

Maximinus Thrax (235-238 A.D.). Maximinus the Thracian was a Roman emperor.

Roman Emperor, Trebonianus Gallus, proclaimed emperor by his troops, ruled from 251 to 253 A.D. when he was assassinated by his troops.

Gallienus (Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus), born c. A.D. 218, was a Roman emperor from 253, when he was named Caesar -- following the senate appointment of his father Valerian to Augustus -- until his murder by his own generals in 268 during the siege of Milan.

Information on the Babylonian king Hammurabi who is well-known for his lega decisions, the Code of Hammurabi.

Articles on this site on the Byzantine Emperor Justinian.

In Antiquities of the Jews - Book XIV, the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus explains how Herod the Great came to be king of the Jews.

Glossary entry on Leonidas and the Battle at Thermopylae.

Leonidas was a 5th century B.C. Spartan military king who the famous 300 against the much larger Persian army of Xerxes, at the pass of Thermopylae, in 480 B.C. during the Persian Wars.

Son of Theodosius I, he co-ruled with his brother Arcadius in the final divission of the Roman Empire into an eastern and western half.