At that time, an anonymous wrote philosophical works. And in one of them, he speaks of a Marseilles explorer who seems to have discovered the northernmost island of the World, a place where the Summer Solstice, the day is night and where, Winter Solstice night is day. . Seneca thinks that this is a fragment of Ultima Thule, the old polar continent having once broke into several pieces before falling into the water. Pliny in his Natural History also draws up several texts on the island of Thule: The island of Thule is the farthest known land. She has no night at Midsummer, and the darkness will reign completely than in Winter. . He added later: Thule is the land of Titans who were born after the union of Uranus and Earth. It is for this reason that the latter contains a great telluric force which is at the origin of the world. . He also gave a detailed description of the Labyrinth Egyptian Dachour This monument was built by twelve Veterans kings who ruled there was a long time in this country. They erected a little above the lake Méoris, and very close to the City of Crocodiles. I saw it, and I found it so wonderful that I can not express my feelings exactly then. Indeed, the finest works of the Greeks, including the temples of Samos and Ephesus, are lower than Labyrinth. For in this wonderful book, there are twelve large rooms covered by the parties are opposed to each other. Six rooms are located to the south on the same level; six are arranged in Septentrion; and one wall surrounds the inside. In this maze, there are also 3,000 rooms, half of which is above ground; and the other below. At the heart of that once appeared burials of kings builders, as well as sacred crocodiles; person could not and had to see. As for the rooms erected at the surface - sometimes oval and open to receive the rays of the Sun and the Moon in the center - they surpass all the works done by the hand of man. There exits through the roof, contours and different circuits; it is practiced in rooms with so much art that I was petrified with admiration. Then we move rooms in apartments. Here, the roofs are made of stone, while the walls are adorned with carved works. And every place is surrounded by a colonnade of white stone. . For his part, Pliny the Elder wrote his most important work: Natural History. It consists of 37 books, which are the sum of the knowledge of his time in the World. He is interested in Geography, for Economics, for Science, Technology, and the Fabulous Legends. While Josephus recounts the events of the Jewish uprising in Palestine in The Jewish War; He is also the author of a History of the Hebrews origins to his day, the Jewish Antiquities. And the poet Martial begins writing his Epigrams; short skits full of verve. From 69, Vespasian is a simple and energetic. It owes its power to the army, but now task of governing in good agreement with the Senate. The new Emperor appears as the guarantor of civil peace and social order. For Vespasian seeks to present itself as the savior appointed by the Gods. He reorganized the Empire promoting the rise of provincial; including notables from Italy and the western provinces. By 70, he gave his son Titus the opportunity to pacify Palestine to seize the Holy City of Jerusalem, to plunder the Temple. It allows him to capture and send to Rome Objects Sacred Sanctuary - and in particular its Chandelier solid gold - in order to be included in the Imperial Treasury alongside the bodies torn to all peoples under the Empire. He then told her to be merciless to those who resist it, and destroy the Temple in order to ensure the sustainability of its troop presence in the region. On the other hand, it gives the Latin law - which gives the inhabitants of the cities that are identical to those enjoyed by citizens civil rights - but do not allow them to hold public office. And he found a temporary solution to the problem of imperial succession by appointing his son heir to the throne. Then, to reduce the salient between the Rhine and Danube, Vespasian made occupy the Neckar Valley by his legions. It allows Yohanan ben Zakkai - former spokesman for the pacifist fraction of the Pharisees - to install an academy and to reconstitute the Sanhedrin to Yabnek. He finished the cadastre - document is intended notarial and tax - in the Roman colonies in Gaul. Then, he died at 79, his son Titus successor; which immediately designate his brother Domitian heir to the Empire. The Campania region, famous for its vineyards and approval of its sites, is a resort popular with the locals. Pompeii, meanwhile, is a thriving town of 20,000 inhabitants. It has, in addition to a theater, Odeon, a stone amphitheater. Active, the city is home to shops and workshops. And houses embellished with frescoes and gardens peristyle. But August 24, 79, an eruption of Vesuvius engulfed under a layer of ash and lapilli cities of Pompeii and Stabiae, before destroying the Herculaneum under enormous mudslide. In fact, the disaster, announced by earthquakes and the formation of a huge cloud of smoke, caused thousands of victims. Among them, there is Pliny the Elder. Prefect of the fleet of Misenum, he rescued the inhabitants of Pompeii. He also wanted to observe the phenomenon. 80, the Emperor Titus inaugurates the Flavian Amphitheatre after ten years of construction. The building is near the high colossus - hence the name Colosseum - the Golden House of Nero. And this is the grandest project ever in Rome: Its dimensions are gigantic: 187 meters by 155 meters. They allow it to accommodate more than 48,000 spectators. The oval arena surrounded by tiers supported by arches on three levels. The set is very functional: a system of corridors and interior stairs allows serving without jostling the stands. The Coliseum is the first permanent stone amphitheater in Rome. For all that, the gladiatorial games were held in wooden buildings. But the games of the amphitheater is extremely popular - gladiator fights, often to death, animal hunts turning the massacre, naval battles - it was increasingly necessary to have a permanent in the worlds capital Romain. A few months later, the Romans know that people Garamantian dominate a territory that extends from the Sahara to Sudan. But it is also the time where they learn that some tribes are Garamantians currently driving three explorers sent by the Empire to the Central African Republic.
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