The Cilician pirates roamed across the entire Mediterranean, and began to attack the towns of Italy itself. In fact, even Ostia was plundered. There were three campaigns, first by Marcus …

2019年7月15日 · As the Seleucids began to lose power and influence over their part of the territory c. 110 BCE, the famous Cilician pirates emerged to fill the vacuum and exerted ever …

Cilician Pirates: group of buccaneers, destabilizing force in the eastern Mediterranean world in the late second and early first centuries BCE.

In 75 BCE a band of Cilician pirates in the Aegean Sea captured a 25-year-old Roman nobleman named Julius Caesar, who had been on his way to study oratory in Rhodes. As the story is …

2024年2月19日 · The Cilician pirates played a crucial role in the ancient slave trade, targeting slow-moving grain ships for capture. Their raids, fueled by demand for slaves in Roman …

2019年8月19日 · The Cilician pirates grew in power as the Seleucid Empire, which controlled the coast of Cilicia, began to wane steadily after 110 BCE.

Cilician pirates dominated the Mediterranean Sea from the 2nd century BC until their suppression by Pompey in 67–66 BC. Because there were notorious pirate strongholds in Cilicia, on the …

2019年8月23日 · Cilician Pirates. The Illyrian pirates had followed a code established earlier by Greek pirates of not attacking their own people or region. The Greek pirate Dionysus the …

The Pirates of Cilicia became a Sea Power and dominated the Eastern Mediterranean and the Slave Trade between 167 BCE and 67 BCE. Coracesium was the HQ and Pirate Base in what …

Naturally desiring a base or home port, many pirates set up on the coast of present day Turkey, in an area known as Cicilia Tracheia. This area afforded great protection for the pirates. The …