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Ancient Roman generals
- Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (son of Pompey)Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus died on the 12th of April 45 BC, cornered and killed by a man named Lucius Caesennius Lento, weeks after watching his army shatter at…
- Marcus Junius BrutusMarcus Junius Brutus died on the 23rd of October 42 BC, on a hillside near Philippi, by falling on his own sword. He had just lost two battles in quick…
- Gnaeus Octavius (consul 87 BC)Gnaeus Octavius died on the Janiculum Hill in 87 BC, beheaded by a cavalry officer named Gaius Marcius Censorinus, his head carried to the dictator Cinna and…
- Gaius Cassius LonginusGaius Cassius Longinus spent his life fighting against what he saw as tyranny, only to be remembered for the act that made him infamous: driving a blade into…
- TitusTitus Flavius Vespasianus was born on the 30th of December 39 AD, in the same world that would later watch him tear down one of its most sacred buildings.
- Lucius Antonius (brother of Mark Antony)Lucius Antonius lived his early years in the shadow of his older brother, one of Rome's most powerful men. He was nicknamed Pietas as a young man, a word…
- TrajanTrajan was born Marcus Ulpius Traianus on the 18th of September in AD 53, in a modest Roman colony called Italica, in what is now the Andalusian province of…
- Nero Claudius DrususNero Claudius Drusus entered the world between mid-March and mid-April 38 BC, three months after his mother Livia married Augustus on the 17th of January.
- Lucius Junius BrutusLucius Junius Brutus died around 500 BC, and yet the questions his life raises have never stopped troubling historians. Was he a real man, or a myth invented…
- Lucius Cornelius CinnaLucius Cornelius Cinna was killed by his own soldiers early in 84 BC. He died during a mutiny while trying to move his army across the Adriatic Sea near…
- Marcus Vipsanius AgrippaMarcus Vipsanius Agrippa was born around 63 BC into a plebeian family of no great distinction in Roman public life, and yet he would become the man without…
- Gaius Asinius PollioGaius Asinius Pollio emerged from the hills of central Italy, born in the town known today as Chieti. His father bore the name Gnaeus Asinius Pollio, a man…
- Marcus Furius CamillusMarcus Furius Camillus was hailed as the second founder of Rome, a man credited with saving the city from Gallic invaders, capturing a legendary Etruscan…