Word: bithynia
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Bargaining for the much-needed fleet of King Nicomedes of Bithynia, Caesar was faced with one condition; the King would lend his fleet "if the handsome young Roman noble would sleep with him." Although he was always known as an enthusiastic ladies' man, Caesar agreed, and felt he had done his country a patriotic turn...
...Waugh follows a 12th Century legend in having Helena born a British princess. The more accepted view: she was born a commoner in Bithynia...
...several hundred years. The princes of this dynasty distinguished themselves by their energy, and by the purity of their private lives. They were troubled by hordes of barbarians-the Gauls or Galatians-who had already overrun Italy and Greece, and were invited into Asia Minor by the king of Bithynia who hired them as mercenaries. These barbarians were first repulsed by At talus who confined them within the country to which they gave the name of Galatia. They did not cease to be troublesome, however, but continued to make attacks on Pergamon as late as 187 B. C. The attacks...
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