Titus

Emperor Commodus Born on the 31st of August, 161 AD, Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus, later known as Commodus, was the Roman Emperor from 180 AD to 192 AD. He was the first Emperor to succeed his blood father since since Titus succeeded Vespasian in 79, and was also the first Emperor to be born “in the purple”, which means he was born during his father’s reign. Commodus is largely considered one of the worser Emperors to have ruled the Roman Empire. Though he ruled for quite a…

historians, poets and moralists. He was married at the age of eighteen to a woman named Anne Hathaway. They remained married until his death in 1616. In his lifetime, he wrote many plays and sonnets. His first full length tragedy was a play titled Titus Andronicus, but his most famous tragedy is the love story of Romeo and Juliet. His many plays have…

translates to “boiling pot” (Rzepczynski, 1998). Kalamazoo’s name is important to the history of the city. a. Kalamazoo was not its first name though. i.f However, the first name of the city of Kalamazoo was Bronson, named after one of its founders, Titus Bronson (The History of Kalamazoo County, Michigan, 1984). ii. Kalamazoo was 14,000 acres and owned by the eccentric Mr. Bronson in 1830 (The History of Kalamazoo County, Michigan, 1984). iii. Bronson hated the name “Kalamazoo”, and…

Shakespeare is known as the father of English literature and the National poet of England. Shakespeare was a literary genius before his time. He used language and emotions in such a way that it had a lasting effect on the telling and writing of love stories and tragedies. Most of us use many phrases that are derived from the writings of Shakespeare and we are completely unaware of their origin. Through his life and his profoundly eloquent writing, Shakespeare created works that are remarkable.…

Munda from 49-45 BC starting on March 17th. The Battle began when the Optimates were defeated at Pharsalus and Thapsus by Caesar. In Hispania (modern day Spain) Pompey 's sons Gnaeus, Sextus and Pompeius formulated a plan with the help of general Titus Labienus to raise an army within the borders of Caesar’s army. Moving quickly the newly formed renegade army seized most of Hispania, Italica and Corduba. These successive and successful attacks caused confusion amongst Caesar’s generals but they…

Week Two Written Responses Ethics: Approaching Moral Decisions According to Holmes the source of human rights is the scriptures in the Bible. There are many scriptures that show these human rights, and God also displays them by the way He treats everyone in the same manner throughout the Bible. As Christians we were born with human rights and Holmes explains this by stating, "Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" (Holmes, 1984, p. 89). We need to live by the rights God…

Apostle Paul commits us to a thorough consideration of the Christian faith and practice. Reconciliation is the substance, from the beginning to the very end, of the completeness in meaning in the life of a Christian. In relation to reconciliation, Paul teaches us that the ministry of reconciliation is not chiefly something that we do. Instead, he emphasizes that for Christians, the principle of reconciliation is something that has been done for us: Jesus Christ has reconciled us to God. In the…

Forming A Republic For Dummies: Brutus Edition Lucius Junius Brutus was an important figure in the Roman Republic. He was born in 545 BC and lived until 509 BC where he would meet one of his enemies at the Battle of Silva Arsia. The rape of Lucretia caused Brutus to form the Roman Republic with her husband, Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus. Brutus would lead the people of Rome by example and left an admirable legacy that would still impress scholars today.…

image by using both the Old Testament and New Testament. Many theologians, according to Kilner, make the mistake of starting the study for the image in Genesis 1, but Scripture points out that the beginning was not really the beginning. Places like Titus 1:2, 2 Timothy 1:9, and 1 Corinthians 2:7 point to this idea. Christ has always been the image of God even though he was not reveled until the New Testament. After laying the foundation for Christ as the image, we then can turn to Genesis 1…

There were four men who came to be known as the “Apostolic Fathers” The term Apostolic Fathers is used to describe a group of early Christian writings produced in the late 1st and 2nd century . They are (Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, Papias, and authors of the Epistle to Barnabas). Their works include the “Didache”. Didache used as Christian teaching manual for new converts. “The Didache is considered part of the category of second-generation Christian writings known as the Apostolic Fathers”…