200 BC world map

Border history

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Biographical context

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Era-based reading

The related chronicles below surface long-form reading connected to the classical period.

Judea

Yose ben Yoezer

c. 200 BC – c. 161 BC

“Let your house be a meeting place for the Sages; sit in the dust of their feet, and drink their words thirstily.”

First Nasi of the Sanhedrin, founder of the Zugot era, martyr of the Maccabean persecution, called the most pious of the priesthood

Jerusalem / Alexandria

Joshua ben Perachiah

c. 140 BC – c. 76 BC

“Provide thyself with a teacher; get thee a companion; and judge all men charitably.”

Nasi of the Sanhedrin, second of the Zugot, author of one of the most famous ethical maxims in Jewish tradition, survivor of Alexander Jannaeus's persecution

Rome

Cicero

106 BC – 43 BC

“O tempora! O mores!”

Roman orator, statesman, philosopher, defender of the Republic

Rome

Julius Caesar

100 BC – 44 BC

“Veni, vidi, vici.”

Roman dictator, military genius, political reformer, conqueror of Gaul

Greece

Aristotle

384 BC – 322 BC

“It is owing to wonder that men both now and at the first began to philosophise.”

Philosopher, scientist, tutor of Alexander the Great, founder of the Lyceum

Macedon

Alexander the Great

356 BC – 323 BC

“If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes.”

Undefeated military commander, conqueror of the Persian Empire, founder of over twenty cities

Judea · Philosopher

Yose ben Yoezer

The Last of the Grape Clusters

The priest who led the Sanhedrin through the Maccabean crisis, preserved the oral tradition against Seleucid persecution, and died on a cross while his own nephew rode beside him on a Greek horse.

Jerusalem / Alexandria · Philosopher

Joshua ben Perachiah

The Teacher Who Judged All Men Charitably

The Pharisee sage who led the Sanhedrin, survived a tyrant king's persecution, and carried the oral tradition through exile to ensure its survival — told in his own words.

Rome · Conqueror

Julius Caesar

He Crossed a River and Ended a Republic. Six Years Later His Own Senate Stabbed Him 23 Times.

The definitive biography of Rome's most ambitious son — from the streets of the Subura to the banks of the Rubicon. Plus a first-person ePub told in Caesar's own voice.

Rome · Thinker

Cicero

The Voice of the Republic

The greatest orator Rome ever produced — lawyer, consul, philosopher, and the last voice of the dying Republic. A first-person ePub told in Cicero's own words.