The Gates of Rome (Emperor Series, Book 1)

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Warren T. Treadgold, A History of the Byzantine State and Society, (Stanford University Press, 1997), p. 79. In the early 16th century the Kabbalist Abraham ben Eliezer ha-Levi suggested that the 'Rome' in the story was a small town in Galilee with the same name, and a bit later Moshe Alshich put the Messiah in paradise overlooking this town. Empire of Silver (2010, ISBN 978-0-00-728800-7) (titled Genghis: Empire of Silver 2010, ISBN 978-0-385-33954-4)

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Herwig Wolfram, History of the Goths, Trans. Thomas J. Dunlap, (University of California Press, 1988), p. 140. Sam Moorhead and David Stuttard, AD410: The Year that Shook Rome, (The British Museum Press, 2010), pp. 97–98.The story of the Gates of Janus was also used by British political and military leaders during the 19th and early 20th centuries. They portrayed the opening of the Gates as a part of the glory of war and used the legend to add honour to the wars over control of their empire. [19] See also [ edit ] John Bagnell Bury, History of the Later Roman Empire volume 1, (Dover edition, St Martins Press, 1958), p. 178. The Porta Esquilina is the Servian gate that sat at the entrance to the Esquiline Hill. It was rebuilt by the Emperor Augustus around the same time as the Arch of Dolabella.

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The Messiah at the Gates of Rome" is a traditional story, Mashal or parable in the Jewish tradition, from the Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 98a. So for our most recent trips we have returned to a book full of action - The Gates of Rome, the first in the Emperor series by Conn Iggulden (and Iggulden’s extraordinary debut as a novelist). It is read perfectly by Robert Glenister. Coarelli, Filippo (2014-05-10). Rome and Environs. University of California Press. doi: 10.1525/9780520957800. ISBN 978-0-520-95780-0. Alaric took Portus and renewed the siege of Rome in late 409. Faced with the return of starvation and disease, the Senate met with Alaric. [83] He demanded that they appoint one of their own as Emperor to rival Honorius, and he instigated the election of the elderly Priscus Attalus to that end, a pagan who permitted himself to be baptized. Alaric was then made magister utriusque militiae and his brother-in-law Ataulf was given the position comes domesticorum equitum in the new, rival government, and the siege was lifted. [75] Just before Mashiach [Messiah] comes, there will be a flood of atheism, not a literal flood of water but one of strange thoughts that will cover all the “high mountains” even in the land of Israel, which was not affected by Noah’s flood. The rains will teem down with such force that even the “mountains of Israel ” will be drenched, even the hearts of the pure will be affected.

Honorius, extremely fearful at this turn of events, sent Jovius and others to Attalus, pleading that they share the Western Empire. Attalus said he would only negotiate on Honorius' place of exile. Jovius, for his part, switched sides to Attalus and was named patrician by his new master. Jovius wanted to have Honorius mutilated as well (something that was to become common in the Eastern Empire), but Attalus rejected it. [84] Iggulden's debut book was The Gates of Rome, the first in a currently five-part series entitled Emperor. The series is based around the life of Julius Caesar, from childhood ( The Gates of Rome) to his eventual betrayal and death ( The Gods of War). The film option has been sold to Spitfire Productions (an Intermedia company). R. Joshua b. Levi met Elijah standing by the entrance of R. Simeon b. Yohai’s tomb. He asked him: “Have I a portion in the world to come?” He replied, “If this Master desires it.” 39 R. Joshua b. Levi said, “I saw two, but heard the voice of a third.” 40 He then asked him, “When will the Messiah come?” “Go and ask him himself” was his reply. “Where is he sitting?” “At the gates of Rome.” 41 “And by what sign may I recognise him?” “He is sitting among the poor lepers: all of them untied [them] 42 all at once, and rebandage them together, 43 whereas he unties and rebandages each separately, [before treating the next], thinking, should I be wanted, [it being time for my appearance as the Messiah] I must not be delayed [through having to bandage a number of sores].” So he went to him and greeted him, saying “peace upon thee, Master and Teacher.” “peace upon thee, O son of Levi” he replied. “When wilt thou come Master?” asked he, “Today”, was his answer. On his returning to Elijah, the latter enquired “What did he say to thee?” “peace Upon thee, O son of Levi” he answered. Thereupon he [Elijah] observed, “He thereby assured thee and thy father of [a portion in] the world to come.” “He spoke falsely to me” he rejoined, “stating that he would come today, but has not.” He [Elijah] answered him, “This is what he said to thee, Today, if ye will hear his voice.” 44 The disciples of R. Jose b. Kisma asked him “When will the Messiah come?” He answered “I fear lest ye demand a sign of me [that my answer is correct].” They assured him “We will demand no sign of you.” So he answered them “When this gate 45 falls down, is rebuilt, falls again, and is again rebuilt, and then falls a third time, before it can be rebuilt the son of David will come.”

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Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, (Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 194.There was no general slaughter or wholesale enslavement of the city's inhabitants and the two main basilicas of Peter and Paul were nominated places of sanctuary. Most of the buildings and monuments in the city survived intact, though stripped of their valuables. [87] [90] Porta Settimiana lies at the top of Trastevere and sits next to the house of Margherita Lutti, the Fornarina. A baker’s daughter, she is famed for being the love of Raphael, who is renowned for his perhaps unrivaled influence on the Italian Renaissance. Castagnoli, Ferdinando. 1988. "Gli iani del Foro Romano. Ianus arco quadrifonte?." Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma XCII: 11-16.

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Sam Moorhead and David Stuttard, AD410: The Year that Shook Rome, (The British Museum Press, 2010), pp. 94–95. a b c Herwig Wolfram, History of the Goths, Trans. Thomas J. Dunlap, (University of California Press, 1988), p. 153.Herwig Wolfram, History of the Goths, Trans. Thomas J. Dunlap, (University of California Press, 1988), pp. 152–153. This failure caused Olympius to fall from power and to flee for his life to Dalmatia. [75] Jovius, the praetorian prefect of Italy, replaced Olympius as the power behind the throne and received the title of patrician. Jovius engineered a mutiny of soldiers in Ravenna who demanded the killing of magister utriusque militiae Turpilio and magister equitum Vigilantius; he had both men killed. [75] [76] [77] Meaghan McEvoy (2 May 2013). Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367–455. Oxford University Press. p.184. ISBN 978-0-19-966481-8. There are also a few remains at the intersection of via Antonio Salandra and via Giosuè Carducci near Piazza Barberini, in Piazza Manfredo Fanti near the Termini station and in the McDonald’s Fast Food emporium in the lower floor of Termini station. If you’re arriving to Rome’s 1930’s Termini Train Station, look to the right as you walk out the front of the station into the Piazza dei Cinquecento, the square named for the 500 Italian soldiers who were wiped out by 7,000 Ethiopians at the Battle of Dogali (Eritrea) in 1887.