to 68 BC – Antiochus of Ascalon, the pioneer of Middle Platonism 110 to 40/35 BC – Philodemus Epicurean philosopher and poet, author of ethics, theology, rhetoric, music, poetry and history of philosophical schools 100 to 44 BC – Julius Caesar 92 BC to 629 AD – Roman–Persian Wars 64 BC to 24 AD – Strabo, Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian from Pontus, Asia Minor 63 BC – Romans annex all of Asia Minor, Syria and Judea under Pompey 48 BC to 642 AD – Destruction of the Library of Alexandria, one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world 31 BC – Emergence of the Roman Empire as signified by the Battle of Actium 30 BC – Romans annex Egypt 20 BC to 50 AD – Philo of Alexandria, prominent Hellenistic Jewish philosopher 4 BC – Birth of Jesus of Nazareth 1st millennium AD 27/30 AD – The ministry of Jesus of Nazareth starts 30 to 100 AD – Apostolic Age, onset of Christianity 37 to 100 AD – Josephus, Famous first century Roman-Jewish philosopher-historian 50 AD – Apollodorus of Damascus, Syrian architect and engineer who introduced several Eastern innovations to the Roman Imperial style, such as making the dome a standard 60 to 120 AD – Nicomachus, a Neopythagorean who wrote about the mystical properties of numbers, and author of Introduction to Arithmetic and Manual of Harmonics in Greek 66 to 136 AD – Jewish–Roman wars and Jewish diaspora 129 to 216 AD – Galen, a physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire from Pergamon, Asia Minor 135 AD – Roman Emperor Hadrian renamed Iudaea Province into Syria Palaestina 150 AD – Albinus, Platonist philosopher, teacher of Galen 160 to 210 AD – Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhonist philosopher and physician most likely from Alexandria, author of most preserved accounts of Pyrrhonism 175 242 AD – Ammonius Saccas, one of the founders of Neoplatonism 184 to 253 – Origen, early Christian scholar and Church Father 200 AD – Alexander of Aphrodisias, Peripatetic philosopher, author of Prior Analytics, Topics, Meteorology, Sense and Sensibilia, and Metaphysics 2nd century AD to 241 AD – Kingdom of Hatra 204/5 to 270 – Plotinus, the author of the Enneads, one of the founders of Neoplatonism 240 AD – Diogenes Laërtius, biographer of ancient Greek philosophers, author of Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, a principal source for the history of ancient