Exploring how manuscripts reveal the evolution of the tale of Troy in ancient Greek and Latin traditions....
Rome
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...
It was a full scale political revolution carried out by less advantaged Romans that redefined the Roman...
He set the stage for Julius Caesar to later seize political power through force and end Republican...
Cincinnatus was a conservative opponent of the rights of the plebeians (the common citizens) who fell into...
The Law, not the State, was the citadel of Roman sovereignty. I Others shall beat out the...
Antony was popular as a tribune and sought vengeance for Caesar before joining Cleopatra and falling out...
His reign is commonly considered to mark the end of the golden period in the history of...
The bronze colossus originally portrayed Nero, thereafter Commodus, before it was given its present appearance in the...
The Aeneid was written to praise Augustus by drawing parallels between him and the protagonist, Aeneas. Introduction...
Sentenced to death but acquitted in a public trial based upon his father’s appeal. The Story According...
Flaminius was in such a rush to catch the invaders that he failed to set up proper...
Plebeians sought to enforce reform on Patricians – and it worked. First, what happened in politics at...
What was the role of rhetoric in all of their different courts and procedures? By O.E. Tellegen...
The plutocracy of Carthage was only too willing to pick a quarrel with Rome. The Semitic colony...
The ‘Hippocratic’ four humours, Roman hygiene, the first hospitals, and home remedies. The Greeks combined dietetics, medicines,...
Hannibal continued to fight for the people of Carthage, in spite of the poor treatment he received....
Propaganda tactics are timeless. While the game has moved on since the time of Augustus, the rules...
Mark Antony, one of the most powerful politicians in the Roman Republic, offered the nation’s elected leader,...
Lucretius was worried that our fear of death could lead to irrational beliefs and actions that could...