The Battle of Philippi, despite it taking place in the infancy of the Civil War, proved to be consequential. Although the casualty rate was low, 4 killed or injured on the Union side and 26 killed ...

The Battle of Pydna was the second major clash between the Macedonian phalanx and the Roman legion. The first, Cynoscephalae, in 197 BCE, saw the phalanx outmaneuvered and defeated by the more ...

In 42 BC, at the Second Battle of Philippi during the Roman civil wars, Brutus’s army was decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian; Brutus commits suicide.

traveling across the Roman Empire. He preached in some of the empire’s most important cities. Although places like Ephesus, Philippi, Corinth and Athens looked magnificent, they were also home ...