The Plebeian struggle to gain equal standing with the aristocratic Patrician ruling class. Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh...
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Decimation (William Hogarth) in Beaver’s Roman Military Punishments / Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wikimedia Commons The ancient Romans interpreted...
The Republic at the Zenith of Its Power. Golden Liberty. The Royal Election of 1573, by Jan Matejko / Royal Castle,...
Inside Rome’s Colosseum visitors can view the chambers that once held animals and contenders below the arena...
Wall painting (1st century AD) from Pompeii depicting a multigenerational banquet / Naples National Archaeological Museum, Wikimedia...
On the eastern side of Ara Pacis is a relief of Tellus Mater, the Roman earth-goddess /...
Titus Lartius was one of the leading men of the early Roman Republic, twice consul, and the first Roman dictator....
The Sebasteion, excavated in 1979-81, was a grandiose temple complex dedicated to Aphrodite and the Julio-Claudian emperors...
There were alternate systems of belief for those dissatisfied with the chaotic traditional religious forms. By Dr....
Trajan / Creative Commons The Roman Empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Emperor Trajan. By Dr....
Detail of Geta (face removed) and Caracalla from the Severan Tondo, c. 200 C.E., tempera on wood,...
A section of the Antonine Wall at Rough Castle near Falkirk / Photo by Kim Traynor, Wikimedia...
Chesters Roman Fort – View of the Barrack Blocks Securing the borders of the Roman Empire had...
The mausoleum of Augustus in Rome / Photo by ryarwood, Wikimedia Commons “I found a city built...
Dated to the New Kingdom (c. 1570 – c. 1069 BCE), and specifically to c. 1200 BCE, the text...
The peristyle (courtyard) of Diocletian’s palace The reforms of Diocletian and Constantine “preserved” the empire, but changed...
In response to drastic unjust debt and legal principles the Plebeians deserted their positions in society and...
The historical importance of Roman law is reflected by the continued use of Latin legal terminology in...
The Age of Augustus, the Birth of Christ, by Jean-Léon Gérôme, c.1852 / Getty Images, Creative Commons...
Vincenzo Camuccini’s depiction of the death of Julius Caesar / Getty Images, Creative Commons Caesar made politics...
The Gracchi, by Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume / Wikimedia Commons A law gave the Senate the power...
Monetary, fiscal, military, political, and economic issues are all very much intertwined. Lecture by Dr. Joseph R....
Gaius Gracchus Weeping Before his Fathers Statue, engraved by B.Barloccini, 1849 Tribunes protected the plebs from any...
Romulus and Remus with the Capitoline Wolf / Photo by CellarDoor85, Wikimedia Commons A meager beginning of...
The history of Rome is a case study in just how much power can corrupt a person,...
Ancient Roman lead water pipe, 1st-3rd century CE / Wellcome Library, Wikimedia Commons Lead touched many areas...
Tauroctony statue / Photo by Carole Raddato, Creative Commons Mithraism was a mystery cult in the Roman...
A wall of the triclinium, traditionally interpreted to represent the stages of initiation to the cult. Silenus...
A fresco by Cesare Maccari (1840-1919 CE) depicting Roman senator Cicero (106-43 BCE) denouncing the conspirator Catiline...
Mosaic of amphorae being unloaded from a ship, Ostia / Southampton University, Creative Commons The trade networks...