roman empire

Julius Caesar had a daughter who named Julia Caesaris. She was married off to Pompey, and they had a very happy and loving marriage together despite the large age difference between the two. She died in 54 BC while she was pregnant, with the gender of the child being unknown. Pompey and Caesar...

I am a little bit tired of Scifi. So i'll start this new project (not new at all, being another setting for GURPS i'll created many years ago). In This timeline, Heraclius the Younger, instead of sailing from Carthage to Constantinople, decided to stay in African City, dooming the Empire in the...

I was reading the Byzantine Empire Timeline Cliches To Avoid thread, and I figured it might be fruitful to create a similar thread for Roman Imperial timelines. I am not presently planning on writing any timeline (though I'm always toying with ideas), but nevertheless there are a lot of cliches...

Going back to a previous discussion about https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-cleopatra-allied-differently.491386/ and those stating that Octavian wouldn't consider genuinely allying with Cleopatra in the first place. If I remember correctly according to Genevieve Foster in her...

As the title says, in a scenario in which the Roman Empire (let’s say around the early 2nd century) accidentally discovers the American continent (I don’t need the discussion to be about how impossible this is for Roman ships or how Romans lack any motivation to go west please), what would be...

Welcome to the world of Imperium Universalis. The premise behind this timeline is “what if the Romans survived to the present day in one form or another” based on the OTL concept of Dominium Mundi or Universal Monarchy. Which means the recognition of one supreme monarch over all other monarchs...

Recently I have been reading and researching about the Late Roman Empire and I have come across a character that has caught my attention, Magnus Máximo, a Spanish general who rose up in rebellion in Britannia, invading Gaul and defeating Graciano. Although a usurper, he would manage to be...

Consider these two maps of the Roman Empire in 330, plus some important info on the first three Justinian emperors. We can discern the following: The Eastern Roman Empire is a mostly Greek-speaking empire since forever (read: Alexander the Great), but its northwesternmost territory is...

Roman Empire is claimed to be around 60 million by most sources but by adding the population estimates of it's constituent regions and from estimating their population by later shares in world population it is only around 30 million

So, I've been thinking about this thing I did in a Shared Worlds project I'm doing, which is making me wonder: How would Rome be able to integrate Judaea into its Imperial system without causing three Jewish revolts and ending up enslaving large portions of Judaea, and how would this have...

Marcus Aurelius' reign was marked by hardship from beginning to end: Syria was invaded by a Parthia that got its act together (however briefly), plague ravaged the Roman Empire's population, and barbarian peoples invaded Dacia and even Italy itself, laying siege to Aquileia. What if Marcus, who...

The Battle of the Frigidus, which happened in September 394 AD, pitted the forces of Eastern Roman Empire, led by emperor Theodosius I, against those of its western half, led by emperor Eugenius and magister militum Arbogast, who was the power behind the throne. IOTL Theodosius won the battle...

Some people argue that regions like Britannia, Dacia, Germania and Mesopotamia brought instability to the empire, which was relatively safe with its borders in the Rhine, Danube and Osrhoene/Western Armenia. What do you think? Were these regions really worthy of conquest? Would the empire...

In OTL, the Romans and Sassanid Persia fought a bloody 26 year war between one another that severely weakened both powers to the Rashidun Caliphate's invasion a decade or so later. What if this OTL War doesn't happen? How does this occur and what would be the ramifications of it for all three...

The year of our lord Five Hundred and Thirty had come as a turning point for many in the world west of the Indus River [1] with the past 54 years being the main cause for what was to come. In the year 476, The King of the Goths Odoacer would depose the child Emperor Romulus Augustus, who ruled...

Suppose Pilate decided that the Jesus Christ problem was too big of a problem for him(not likely but not ASB) to decide and instead sent Jesus to his superiors in Rome where they confirmed the decision to kill him, how would that impact Christianity and the impact on politics? Rome is likely to...

So, i was thinking in how do you get a situation when the RE is divided, not in two, but in three parts, to have a WRE, a CRE, and a ERE. What POD would be necessary to make this happened? and what would be the historical implications to this division? Could we have a WRE that still falls, but...

challenge is to get germania unified by 200 AD from rhine to don rivers, from franks to goths edit : POD must be after Teutoburg forest but unification must be complete by 3ard century and it must coexist with Roman empire of atleast 395 borders

what if Bar Kokhba Revolt by sticking asymetrical warfare and because of Trajan's death starting a succession war in which a lot of generals try for the throne like the crisis of the third century along with most of provinces rebelling like the illyrian revolt whlie parthians, germans, picts...

If Justinian restored the Roman Empire by Reconquering the entire Mediterranean coast would there still be large scale hellenisation (assimilation into greek culture) in the Byzantine Empire like irl?