Numa Pompilius is the second of the seven kings of Roman royalty. According to Latin 
tradition, his reign extends from 715 to 673 BC. He is part of the first mythical series of kings of Rome, divided between the Latin kings, and the Sabine kings, people established in central Italy. He is a peaceful king.
Julius Caesar, also simply called Caesar, is a general, statesman, and a 
Roman writer, born on 12 or 13 July 100 BC in Rome and died on 15 March 44 BC 
in the same city. He is known for his military feats and his conquests. 
Sophonisbe, born in Carthage in 235 BC and died in Cirta in 203 BC, is a 
queen of Numidia and the wife of Syphax, Berber king of Numidia, then of Massinissa.
Hasdrubal Gisco, died in 202 BC, is a Carthaginian general of the second 
Punic war. 
Batanloea, today Al-Bathaniya, is a fertile plain in the south of present-day Syria, 
to the east of the Golan, to the west of Trachonitis and to the north of Auranitis which is the border region with Jordan.
Trachonitis is the Greek name for a region of basaltic rocky chaos called Argob 
in the Bible, located south of Damascus, Syria. 
Caligula, with his full name Caius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, born on 
August 31st, 12 in Antium and assassinated January 24, 41 in Rome, is the third Roman emperor. He reigned from 37 to 41, succeeding his adoptive father Tiberius. 
Agrippa II is the son of Agrippa I, himself the grandson of Herod the Great. The Roman 
emperor Claudius appointed him king of Chalcis in 48. It is implied in this speech that he 
died during the siege of Gamala, which is false as he was only injured while trying to 
convince the beseiged to surrender. 
Gamala is an ancient city currently located on the Golan plateau. It was 
besieged by Agrippa II and Titus during the great Jewish revolt of 66. 
Arricidia is a Roman living in the first century. She is the first official wife
of Titus.

                                                   Ninth Speech – Panthea to Cyrus 

                                              Panthea, Queen of Susiana
                                                     
                                                        65