Omstreeks het jaar 56 schreef de apostel Paulus, waarschijnlijk vanuit Korinthe, zijn beroemde Brief aan de Romeinen. In de brief vertelde hij zijn lezers dat hij plannen had om naar Spanje te reizen en dat hij onderweg ook Rome wilde aandoen. Hij had immers nog geen gelegenheid gehad de jonge…
Ik heb de indruk dat maar weinig mensen de moeite nemen om de overblijfselen van de synagoge van het oude Ostia te bezoeken. Deze bevinden zich zo’n 300 meter buiten de Porta Marina, de poort die in de Oudheid naar de zee gericht was. De plek ligt nogal geïsoleerd van…
In about 56 CE, Saint Paul the Apostle wrote his famous Epistle to the Romans. At the time he was probably in Corinth. In the letter, he told his readers that he had plans to travel to Spain and that he wanted to visit Rome on the way, as he…
I get the impression that very few people bother to visit the remains of Ancient Ostia’s synagogue. These are located some 300 metres outside the Porta Marina, the gate that faced the sea in Antiquity. The location feels rather isolated, and the situation was probably not very different some 2.000…
Summary For the first time during the Second Punic War, the Roman coastal colonies are required to provide soldiers; Hasdrubal Barcas arrives in Cisalpine Gaul, but fails to capture the Latin colony of Placentia; The consul Gaius Claudius Nero confronts Hannibal near Grumentum; The Romans intercept couriers with a message…
