Roman History

Agrippina was the first woman to govern the Roman Empire. Lived in the first century AD., He held this role when her son Nero was too young to be the performer of a power so immense. Agrippina was descended from a lineage important: He was the grandson of Julius Caesar by the mother and nephew of Mark Antony from his father. The woman was well aware of his lineage, and he used all his life this element in order to gain more and more power and space in Imperial Rome. Become the bride of his uncle Claudius in 49 d.c., He persuaded the man to recognize as heir Nero (born from a previous marriage) instead of the natural son of Emperor, Briton. To ensure the succession, the woman in the 54 d. C. poisoned her husband with a mushroom dish and did applaud the son Nero emperor by the Praetorians. The following year, Elle also killed the son of Claudius, Briton. Despite the efforts of his mother to help Nero in politics, the new emperor resented the intrusion of the woman, at times maddening. For this reason, the relationship between the two went higher incrinandosi: Nero began to lean advisors uncomfortable to mother, as the philosopher Seneca, and dating women cheating on the bride that her mother had found, namely Claudia Octavia. It was the lover and future wife of Emperor, Poppaea Sabina, to instigate Nero to commit matricide. According to the Annales written by Tacitus, Agrippina would try even incest to try to divert attention of the son by her lover and to make the role of Augusta It had gained over the years. However, in 59 d. C. and after you got the word out of treason committed by Agrippina against son, the woman was taken to stab and kill. Agrippina was, in good times and bad, one of the most important female figures of the Roman Empire. His boundless thirst for power has led to a dramatic and tragic end.

Maria

Christian liturgical tradition of the Catholic Church, Today we commemorate the event of the conversion of Paul. The fact is one of the most famous and the most mysterious in the history of the Church: Saul or Paul of Tarsus was a tax collector and arch-enemy of the Christians and their persecutor. One day, during a trip to Damascus, along the way, Paul fell (According to some as the painter Caravaggio was falling off his horse and in doing so he painted it) on the ground. Stunned by the fall, a bright light and dazzling wrapped Paul, from the view; God asked Paul why these persecute Christians, inviting them to get up and get into the city. Paul was three days and three nights without seeing and without eating. Paul was reborn as a man of God.

In the first period after the death of Jesus Christ, We are then in the first century a.d., during the years he lived Paul, There was a unitary vision of Christianity. The same Apostles and followers of Christ were different and often conflicting ideas and opinions on how to proceed, especially on how the world should be "scope" the word of God.

It was Paul of Tarsus, miscreant before and first follower then deliver to the Church what was the basis of Christianity and the Christian faith. According to the interpretative visions hostile to the Christian Church Paul created Christianity, that today we know. I believe that, Instead, Paul was the person who was able to better interpret the word of Jesus and, through his letters, spread it to the people of the then-known world. The importance of this character in the history of the Church is essential: unearthly vision of salvation, of faith in Christ and love as a fundamental basis of the Christian life are the three concepts spread by Paul who today form the basis of the Christian faith. Despite her figure may be obscured by that of Peter, appointed by Jesus his successor, and base, or rather stone, of his Church, was Paul the engine of early Christianity. His letters to the peoples of the Earth continue today to be read during liturgical celebrations because at a distance of two thousand years are still that way in which people can convert.

Roberto Rossetti

 

The 10 January 49 b.c.. the Roman army, drop by the military campaign in Gaul, crossed armed the Rubicon: the River was the border between the Italian peninsula to the South and the barbarians to the North. This Act represented the end of the Roman Republic, and the beginning of the myth of the biggest character of Roman history: Gaius Julius Caesar. Born around 100 BC, in the Roman Republic, It belonged to the patrician nobility lapsed. As a young man came up to Cicero and Pompey, bonds that earned him election as pontifex maximus in 63 b.c.. and Consul 59 b.c..

In 60 b.c.. clasped, in the famous first triumvirate, an alliance with the two military commanders, Pompey and Crassus: private and secret friendship that was supposed to encourage the Division of their positions and actions. By console, Caesar promoted some agrarian laws for Pompey's Veterans, veterans from military campaigns in the East, and for the poor. Important democratic reforms that followed made him tougher anti bribery legislation and other measures in favor of Pompey and Crassus. From 58 b.c.. He began his campaign in Gaul, whose deeds were brought in De Bello Gallico, and that lasted until 50 b.c.: Caesar submitted all people residing in the current Central Europe. In that year, the 50 BC, ended the mandate of Caesar, who was invited by the Senate of Rome, also and especially intimidated by personal achievements and prestige achieved, back to laying the charge; the Roman orders, in contradiction with the provisions of the Republic, crossed the Rubicon: Alea iacta est ("The die is cast") It was his one sentence. That act done with the army in arms meant declaring war on Republican Rome: Caesar wanted to maintain power and crossing that river if you went and got. The clash with Pompey, representative of Rome, It was inevitable as inevitable was the defeat of the latter. Caesar conquered and ruled Rome and on all territories subject and gathered in what became the Roman Empire with great wisdom. His personal power was extended so much to provoke envy and fear, especially among senators, and to become the pretext for his death, occurred on the IDEs of March (15 March) of 44 b.c.. That morning when Caesar arrived in the Senate was encircled by conspirators, whom, each with a dagger, pierced him with 23 shots, No one mortal with the exception of the second. Et tu, Brute? ("You too, Brutus?”), It was the last sentence of the dictator, who died covering her face with the robes of the tunic, as a sign of modesty. Caesar was Pontifex Maximus, Quaestor, construction, praetor, Console, proconsul, dictator and finally God. Caesar was the ruler of the known world, It was the symbol of the power and greatness of Rome. With time you will forget his deeds, his laws, his reforms, but we cannot forget its myth. Conquered all: Terre, peoples, power, Fame and glory, but especially took a front row seat in our memory.

"Veni, I saw, Vici "

CIT. Gaius Julius Caesar

Roberto Rossetti