The masonry techniques discussed here cover a broad chronological range from the second millennium B.C.E. to Late...
Rome
After serving one year on the staff of a Syrian legion, he began the long, imperial road...
Augustus framed his autocratic takeover and control of the Roman state as a sort of democratic act....
30,000 slaves were captured and returned to their masters, with another 6,000 being impaled upon wooden stakes...
After the murder of Caesar, Brutus and Cassius (also known as the Liberatores) had left Italy and...
Ovid’s poems in exile have been seen as of fundamental importance for the study of Roman aristocracy...
While the Vesuvian eruption was devastating, and many lives were lost, it preserved a moment in Roman...
While Antony was consul, it appeared that little could be accomplished. Cicero was concerned about his own...
During the chaotic latter half of the first century BCE, Cicero championed a return to the traditional...
The field where wily Germanic warriors halted the spread of the Roman Empire. “This is the soil...
The Gaulish language and cultural identity underwent a syncretism with the Roman culture of the new governing...
The plague’s social and cultural impact has been compared to that of the Black Death that devastated...
The Roman Empire repeatedly faced an uncertain future. Introduction Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of...
In 44 BC, at the celebration of the Lupercalia, Julius Caesar, seated in a gilded chair at...
Many emperors were raised to gods after death, but just as many received the opposite – officially...
Tutor and advisor to Nero, he was ordered to commit suicide – by Nero. Introduction Lucius Annaeus...
Publius Cornelius Tacitus (l. c. 56 – c. 118 CE) was a Roman historian, active throughout the reign of...
Honor Ceres, the goddess of wheat, with this ancient recipe. Introduction Although Ceres (Greek Demeter) was in...
Exploring how manuscripts reveal the evolution of the tale of Troy in ancient Greek and Latin traditions....
The complex patronage relationships changed with the social pressures during the late Republic. Introduction Patronage (clientela) was...
The Praetorian Guard became notable for its intrigue and interference in Roman politics. Introduction The Praetorian Guard...
Roman law came to have an immense effect on law as actually practiced in the medieval world....
The classics contain many references to tyranny and its causes, effects, methods, practitioners, alternatives. Introduction In the...
In Cicero’s Rome, the government eventually came under the control of a well-trained ruling class. Introduction As...
Rome’s ordinary magistrates and promagistrates successfully carried on all Roman campaigns, without the need for a dictator,...
One of the most common types of graffiti found lining the streets of Pompeii were political graffiti....
The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code....
The loss caused a great shock in Rome and effectively stopped Roman expansion beyond the Rhine River....
Trials were very much a public affair, held out-of-doors or in basilicas; private homes might themselves have...
To this day we say: “a man who is worth his salt.” In ancient Rome, this was...