Year 79 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vatia Isauricus and Claudius Pulcher...

79 may refer to: 79 (number) one of the years 79 BC, AD 79, 1979, 2079 Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79, a catastrophic volcanic eruption in Italy 79...

This article concerns the period 79 BC – 70 BC. Sulla renounces his dictatorship. Cicero travels to Athens and then to Rhodes to continue his studies...

the sacred fire which had been burning uninterrupted for centuries. In 79 BC Cicero consulted the Oracle as to how he should find greatest fame and was...

constellation Andromeda Live Seventy Nine, an album by Hawkwind The years 79 BC, AD 79 or 1979 The number of the French department Deux-Sèvres The ASCII code...

significantly modified form, first by Sulla between 82 and 79 BC and then by Julius Caesar between 49 and 44 BC, who became dictator perpetuo just before his death...

traditionally dated to 200 BC until 80 BC but outside of Pompeii already existed much earlier, since the late 5th century BC. It is characterized by the...

Lucius Cornelius Cinna died in 84 BC, and served as consul in 79 BC and as governor of Roman Macedonia from 78 BC to 76 BC. Appius Claudius Pulcher was likely...

Tiberius Claudius Nero (fl. 79–63 BC) was a Roman senator and military officer. He was grandfather of the emperor Tiberius. He possibly studied under Demetrius...

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, Sulla's consular partner of 80 BC, as its governor. In 79 BC, with Metellus on his way, Marcus Domitius Calvinus (who had...

Servilii. He was elected consul for 79 BC with Appius Claudius Pulcher as his consular collegae. From 78 to 74 BC, as proconsul of Cilicia, he fought...

Magnus (Latin: [ˈŋnae̯ʊs pɔmˈpeːi̯ʊs ˈmaŋnʊs]; 29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), known in English as Pompey (/ˈpɒmpiː/, POM-pee) or Pompey the...

Mucia Tertia (fl. 79 – 31 BC) was a Roman matrona who lived in the 1st century BC. She was the daughter of Quintus Mucius Scaevola, the pontifex maximus...

was popular in ancient Roman erotic art (wall painting from Pompeii, 62–79 BC) A female is sitting on a male's lap, lowering herself on his penis. Wall...

BC, 107–88 BC) Berenice III, Pharaoh (101–88 BC, 81–80 BC) Ptolemy XI Alexander II, Pharaoh (80 BC) Ptolemy XII Auletes, Pharaoh (80–58 BC, 55–51 BC)...

Tullia (c. 79 BC – February 45 BC), sometimes referred to affectionately as Tulliola ("little Tullia"), was the first child and only daughter of Roman...

self-aggrandizement. The constitutional reforms of Sulla between 82 and 79 BC required a ten-year interval before holding the same office again for another...

SISS-ə-roh; Latin: [ˈmaːrkʊs ˈtʊlli.ʊs ˈkɪkɛroː]; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and...

limit the power of the tribunes of the plebs. Resigning his dictatorship in 79 BC, Sulla retired to private life and died the following year. Later political...

Cincinnatus, the Roman dictator, in 458 and 439 BC; Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the Roman dictator, in 79 BC; Emperor Diocletian in AD 305; and Emperor Romulus...

BC (d. 2 BC) Wang Mang, usurper of the Han dynasty and emperor of the Xin dynasty (d. AD 23) February – Tullia, daughter of Cicero (b. 79 BC or 78 BC)...

in 269 BC, but modern authors consider this too precise a reading of Pomponius. It is known that a college of three was in existence c. 150 BC. A fourth...

Marcus Domitius Calvinus (or possibly Lucius Domitius Calvinus) (died 79 BC) was an ancient Roman politician and military commander who was killed during...

Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies...

victory. 80 BC – Battle of the Baetis River – Rebel forces under Quintus Sertorius defeat the legal Roman forces of Lucius Fufidius in Hispania. 79 BC – Battle...

daughter. Cleopatra V is first mentioned in 79 BC in two papyri. One of these papyri dates from January 17, 79 BC. In that year she married Ptolemy XII, king...

Year 80 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sulla and Metellus Pius (or, less frequently...

War. He served alongside Pompey slowly grinding down the rebels from 79 to 72/71 BC. For his victories during the Sertorian War he was granted a triumph...

consul of 79 BC. Gaius Servilius M. f. Vatia, father of the consul of 79 BC. Publius Servilius C. f. M. n. Vatia, surnamed Isauricus, consul in 79 and censor...

the interrex of 77 BC. Appius Claudius Ap. f. C. n. Pulcher, consul in 79 BC. Appius Claudius Ap. f. Ap. n. Pulcher, praetor in 89 BC. Gaius Claudius Ap...