Roman traffic ways connected to lines of communication into territories well beyond the empire. Transcontinental Connectivity Centuries...
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Fringe was most often employed by the Romans as trim on religious garments. Introduction This article examines...
Examining evidence from epigraphy, iconography, and topography. Introduction The subject of Palmyrenes’1 integration as residents of Rome...
Schools were privately operated by teachers and therefore dependent on tuition fees. Introduction Roman education had its first...
The importance of religious cults in creating the “corporate image” of the Theodosian dynasty. Introduction “His faith...
Exploring the use and adaptation of the Galenic corpus in the hands of late antique medical compilers....
During the Principate “it “hospitium” became a vehicle for ‘them’ to become more like ‘us’. Introduction The...
It was the banquet that would mark Aulus’s arrival in his capital. Introduction The emperor Aulus Vitellius (r. 69...
The role ascribed to Rome in the foundation of Western civilization is frequently taken as a justification...
The soldiers’ morale, closely linked with training and organization, could make the difference on battlefield. The resounding...
Did what initiates once heard and saw in the Mysteries transform into the historical Jesus? Introduction After...
Lucian’s work provides insight into the ancient Roman world, which fostered multilingualism and multiculturalism. Introduction People who...
The Mediterranean environment was capricious, characterized by alternating glut and dearth. Introduction Whatever is grown and made...
Little did contemporaries know they were witnessing a sort of valediction: the last secular games of Rome....
Unity is a complex concept, rather an abstract idea than a factual circumstance. Introduction Since the seventeenth...
Eunuchs became an institutional feature of the imperial court in the late Roman period. Introduction In the...
Complications in early modern cultural understandings of the material aspects of militant nostalgia. Remembering Rome, Performing Rome...
Gambling was played by people long before the rise of Rome. The oldest known dice were found...
Ancient Greece and Rome myths about Cupid explore the messier – sometimes scarier – sides of love....
Rome against the Parthian Empire, which was immense with a considerable income of its own. Introduction Psychological...
Orichalcum was a metal that closely resembled gold, although its value was inferior. Introduction Orichalcum (“mountain copper”) or...
One of the most difficult misconceptions to resolve is the question of methodology. By John C. Robison...
The cavalry charged at the enemy army from multiple directions in an attempt to divert attention and...
The ancient Roman diet included many items that are staples of modern Italian cooking. Introduction The cuisine of ancient Rome changed...
The collapse of the Roman Empire has long been the subject of immense interest among professional scholars....
It is estimated by the ancient historians Tacitus and Josephus that about 600,000 to 1,100,000 people died...
Hadrian viewed the inhabitants of southern Scotland—the “Picti,” or Picts—as a menace. Stretching 80 miles from the...
Throughout 51 BCE, Caesar continued to extinguish the last flickers of Gallic resistance. Introduction Commius was an Atrebates...
The scandal and ensuing trial brought all of Rome to a standstill. Introduction Publius Clodius Pulcher (93–52 BC)...
He was strangled, his body exposed on the Gemonian stairs and then thrown in the Tiber. By...