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Hace 1 día · In AD 26, Tiberius moved to an imperial villa-complex he had inherited from Augustus, on the island of Capri. It was just off the coast of Campania, which was a traditional holiday retreat for Rome's upper classes, particularly those who valued cultured leisure ( otium ) and a Hellenised lifestyle.
Hace 5 días · In the end, Tiberius spent many of his final years in self-imposed exile in Capri, where he spent his days drinking wine and studying the stars. After he died in 37 C.E., Germanicus’ son, Caligula, became emperor. When it came to Rome’s emperors, some were good, some were middling, and some were downright terrible.
Hace 1 día · Cuando tenía noventa años, una década antes de su fallecimiento en 2022, advirtió el napolitano Raffaele La Capria de que había tenido la suerte de gozar una juventud en la que el mar era auténticamente transparente, el cielo parecía intacto y la tierra no se había contaminado: esto es, de haber visto lo que todos sus antecesores ...
Hace 1 día · The conflict eventually led to the destruction of her family, with Caligula as the sole male survivor. In 26, Tiberius withdrew from public life to the island of Capri, and in 31, Caligula joined him there. Tiberius died in 37 and Caligula succeeded him as emperor, at the age of 24.
Hace 4 días · The aftermath of this “outrage of Anagni” was the desertion of Rome by the popes and their long residence (1309–77) at Avignon (now in France), a chapter in church history called the “Babylonian Captivity” after the 70 years of Jewish exile in Babylon in the 6th century bc.
Hace 5 días · On Iona, a small island on the west coast of Scotland, St. Colmcille settled following his self-imposed exile from Ireland. The story of how an influential figure from the Irish and Celtic monastic tradition found himself in permanent exile in a remote Scottish isle is worthy of a “Name of the Rose” plotline.
Hace 17 horas · The Jewish diaspora (Hebrew: תְּפוּצָה, romanized: təfūṣā) or exile (Hebrew: גָּלוּת gālūṯ; Yiddish: golus) [a] is the dispersion of Israelites or Jews out of their ancient ancestral homeland (the Land of Israel) and their subsequent settlement in other parts of the globe.
