Portrait of 12-year-old Marie by Martin van Meytens | Source: Wikimedia Commons In the 200 years since her death, time has skewed her image and many still are unaware of the actual events that occurred

In Misenum, 17 year-old Pliny the Younger witnessed the effects of the eruption, along with his mother and uncle. It was only until years that he recorded his harrowing experience. 1777 painting of the

Given how risky it is even today for some women in modern societies, very special care was taken at the time to ensure safe delivery for the child, while maintaining the health of the mother. Mother surrounded

Athens suffered great casualties in Syracuse in an unwise attempt at conquering. More than 40,000 men perished, while the rest were sold into slavery. This was a great victory for Sparta, and all signs

At the end of the first part, I described how a plague enveloped Athens and killed nearly 25% of the population. The loss was so devastating that citizens needed to raid nearby towns for supplies and more

It's finals week and soon I will be on break starting Friday. After that, I'd like to continue writing more history posts. I'm so happy I made it through the semester, because at times I couldn't see the

Another photo taken during my walks around campus. Today I am surrounded in an air of melancholy as it marks a special point in my life. The flowers bring some brightness to my day.

Yeah this is my bed, and I took this spontaneously while sitting at my desk looking around my room after just waking up. I just moved to a new house so everything is strange, except my bed. My bed will

Taken on my way to the library on campus. I was awaiting the results of my Biology exam, therefore I was a bit nervous and needed something to keep me calm. I noticed I've recently been looking up more

After suffering tremendous losses during Greece's fight in the Greco-Persian Wars, immediate action was needed in order to recover and rebuild. Athens, therefore, came up with the idea of creating the

Following Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 B.C. a scramble for power erupted. The Republic was never designed to support a "dictator for life", so no formal process to replace him was ever

On January 10, 49 B.C. Caesar knowingly broke the rules by crossing the Rubicon river and plunged Rome into civil war. Mass panic ensued as Pompey, most of the Senate, and most other optimate fled the

This was something I took impulsively, with no real intention to grab anything noteworthy. However looking back on it now, I appreciate that moment of spontaneity for producing this. It's really simple

Born in 427 B.C. Plato, actually named Aristocles, was a student of Socrates who came from a wealthy family, as did most of the other students. These aristocrats were interested in his ideas of how democracy

I was saving this picture for today since I realized these flowers have a lovely shade of purple/pink. I took this around spring and summer of last year and I remember walking through my yard and noticing

Julius Caesar was moving up in the Roman world and he knew that in order to secure more power, an alliance needed to be made. One that would benefit not only himself, but his closest allies as well. Busts

Julius Caesar did pave the way for Rome to almost completely abandon the whole point of the Republic when he was named dictator perpetuo, and later when Octavian became emperor. They're both responsible

Although I took this last year, it has been quite rainy today so I thought this was appropriate to share. I wanted to take a little break from writing history posts today so I decided to upload this. It

The Republic set various rules in 509 B.C. that very clearly lay out courses of action, and the military is no exception to these strict guidelines. In order to be enlisted, you had to be a land-owning

Many problems following the Punic Wars affected Rome tremendously, and few efforts were introduced to fix them. There were five things Rome struggled with the most: government, soldiers, values, slavery,