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Ancient History of The Ip 2-3march
Ancient History of The Ip 2-3march
Ancient History of The Ip 2-3march
Ancient History
• Religious curiosity
• He was initiated in the Eleusian mysteries
(Greek religious tradition)
• Promotion of imperial cult: temples to godess
Venus and Rome
• He divinized his lover Antinoo
The crisis of the rd
3 Century
19 AD
284 AD
Persecution of Christians by Diocletian (303)
• Systematically organized
• Specially agressive in the East
• Press depended on the political leaders: lower virulence in the West,
even less under Constantius Clorus (fewer presence of Christians)
• Persecution of manichaeans too
• Religious unification of the whole Empire
• Arrian confession
• 411 foederati of the Roman Empire
• Settlement in Gaul, Aquitaine → conflicts
in Hispania
• 456 Theodoricus II defeats the Suebi
kingdom and stablishes the visigoths in
Hispania
• 507 visigoth kingdom of Toulouse