http://ancienthistory.about.com/ Get the latest headlines from the About.com http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hh http://www.about.com/ 118 20 en-us 2014-05-27T11:27:39Z Tue, 27 May 2014 11:27:39 +0000 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/30/bye-bye-blog.htm That's right, this blog is going away on May 31. About.com has decided to eliminate blogs from the sites. This site is NOT going away. There are still several thousand ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/30/bye-bye-blog.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/30/bye-bye-blog.htm Fri, 30 May 2014 06:15:26 +0000 2014-05-30T06:15:26Z http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/27/hannibal-enemy-of-rome.htm Today St. Martin's Press releases the first in a new series by historical fiction author <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://www.benkane.net/">Ben Kane</a>. This one is about the second Punic War and, as the title suggests, ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/27/hannibal-enemy-of-rome.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/27/hannibal-enemy-of-rome.htm Tue, 27 May 2014 11:27:39 +0000 2014-05-27T11:27:39Z http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/26/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-trajans-dacian-triumph.htm <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/dayinhistory/bltdih070526.htm">On This Day in Ancient History</a> - May 26: <div style="width:170px;float:right;font-size:0.8em;margin:5px 5px 5px 5px;text-align:center;"><img src="http://0.tqn.com/h/ancienthistory/1/3/f/4/3/Trajan.jpg" alt=""="width:170px;height:160px;border:none;" /><br/>Trustees of the British Museum, produced by Natalia Bauer for the Portable Antiquities ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/26/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-trajans-dacian-triumph.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/26/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-trajans-dacian-triumph.htm Mon, 26 May 2014 06:50:08 +0000 2014-05-26T06:50:08Z http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/24/eclipse.htm <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/dayinhistory/bltdih070525.htm">On This Day in Ancient History</a> - May 25: <div style="width:135px;float:right;font-size:0.8em;margin:5px 5px 5px 5px;text-align:center;"><img src="http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/6/T/2/Eclipse.gif" alt=""="width:135px;height:100px;border:none;" /><br/>Eclipse &#169; Clipart.com</div> <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/Posts/00006133.html">The Rogue Classicist</a> says that it may have been on this day in 585 B.C. that <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/philosophers/g/Thales.htm">Thales</a> ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/24/eclipse.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/24/eclipse.htm Sat, 24 May 2014 18:55:10 +0000 2014-05-24T18:55:10Z http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/20/st-helena-2.htm This Day in Ancient History - May 21: <div style="width:134px;float:right;font-size:0.8em;margin:5px 5px 5px 5px;text-align:center;"><img src="http://z.about.com/d/ancienthistory/1/0/t/d/2/sthelena_th.jpg" alt=""="width:134px;height:170px;border:none;" /><br/> St. Helena &#169; Clipart.com</div> <p> <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/helena/p/StHelena.htm">Saint Helena</A>, mother of the first Christian emperor, <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/people/p/constantine.htm">Constantine I</A>,<BR> traveled to the Holy Land where some believe she discovered the cross on which Jesus was crucified. <P>It is possible that Helena was born Christian, but it is thought that she converted. Details about her early life and even her death are scanty. Helena (Flavia Iulia Helena) was born in about 250 and died when she was about 80, according to Eusebius, sometimes called the father of Church history. Helena is thought to have come from Drepanum, in the Roman province of Bithynia [see <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/romeancientrome/ig/Maps-of-Rome-and-the-Empire/Roman-Empire-East.htm">map</a>] because of the honor her son paid to the area.<P> In the Eastern Orthodox Church, St. Helena's saint's day is May 21. In the Roman Catholic Church, it's August 18.<P>Read more about <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/helena/p/StHelena.htm">St. Helena</A>. <P><b>Related:</b></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/people/p/constantine.htm">Constantine the Great</a></li> <li><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/mapsgreeceparts/g/052308Cnstntnpl.htm">Constantinople</a></li> <li><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/biblearchaeology/g/Palestine.htm">Palestine</a></li> <li><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/romehistory/ss/RomanEras_4.htm">The Byzantine Empire and Era</a></li> </ul> <p><div style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 5px; background-color: #f7f7ef; font-size: 0.8em;"><center> <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/mmail.htm">Sign up for my free, weekly Ancient/Classical History newsletter</a><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=https://www.facebook.com/pages/AncientClassical-History/265812982591">Join me on Facebook</a></center></div> http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/20/st-helena-2.htm Tue, 20 May 2014 18:50:00 +0000 2014-05-20T18:50:00Z http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/20/this-day-in-history-12.htm <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/dayinhistory/thisdayinhistory.htm">This Day in History</A> - May 20: On this day in 1912, Moses Finley was born in New York City. After studying law, during the McCarthy era, Finley moved to ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/20/this-day-in-history-12.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/20/this-day-in-history-12.htm Tue, 20 May 2014 06:55:35 +0000 2014-05-20T06:55:35Z http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/16/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-a-14-year-old-became-emperor.htm <div style="width:170px;float:right;font-size:0.8em;margin:5px 5px 5px 5px;text-align:center;"><img src="http://0.tqn.com/h/ancienthistory/1/3/2/s/2/elagabalus.jpg" alt=""="width:170px;height:158px;border:none;" /><br/>Elagablus Coin<BR> &#169; <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/1194936906/">Copyright the Trustees of the British Museum, produced by Natalia Bauer for the Portable Antiquities</a></div> <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/dayinhistory/bltdih070516.htm">On this day in ancient Roman History</a> - May 15: <BR>He ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/16/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-a-14-year-old-became-emperor.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/16/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-a-14-year-old-became-emperor.htm Fri, 16 May 2014 07:43:37 +0000 2014-05-16T07:43:37Z http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/09/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-15.htm <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/dayinhistory/bltdih07057.htm">On This Day in Ancient History</a> - May 9: <BR>In ancient Rome, Romans appeased the <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/rome/p/lares.htm">spirits of the dead</a> with beans. This was part of the Lemuria or Lemuralia, which ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/09/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-15.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/09/on-this-day-in-ancient-history-15.htm Fri, 09 May 2014 06:55:27 +0000 2014-05-09T06:55:27Z http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/01/maia-and-the-month-of-may.htm Our month of May may have been named for the spring goddess or nymph <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/g/maia.htm">Maia</a>. She was the loveliest of the Pleiades, who were daughters of the familiar <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/religionmyth/g/Titans.htm">Titan</a> Atlas. ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/01/maia-and-the-month-of-may.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/05/01/maia-and-the-month-of-may.htm Thu, 01 May 2014 00:01:42 +0000 2014-05-01T00:01:42Z http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/04/26/myth-monday-floralia.htm Flora is the goddess honored during the <A href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/rome/a/ludiflorales.htm">Floralia</a>, a festival that runs from the end of April to May 2. <p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/04/26/myth-monday-floralia.htm">Read Full Post</a></p><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;clear:both;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/04/26/myth-monday-floralia.htm">Floralia Celebrated</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/">About.com Ancient / Classical History</a> on Saturday, April 26th, 2014 at 06:50:43.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/04/26/myth-monday-floralia.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/04/26/myth-monday-floralia.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/04/26/myth-monday-floralia.htm&#038;zItl=Floralia Celebrated">Email this</a></p> http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2014/04/26/myth-monday-floralia.htm Sat, 26 Apr 2014 06:50:43 +0000 2014-04-26T06:50:43Z