As the last Ptolemaic heir of Alexander the Great, she remained committed to his policy of cultural...
Ancient
Like modern slavery, it was an abusive and degrading institution. Slavery in ancient Rome differed from its...
At the heart of Roman conceptions of citizenship was a covenant between the individual citizen and the...
Cassius Dio is best known for his 80-volume Roman History. Introduction Cassius Dio (c. 164 – c. 229/235...
The city’s monuments (and their ruins) are cues for memory, discourse, and discovery. Views of Rome The...
Exploring discoveries and inventions made by the Chinese between about 200 and 1400 C.E. Introduction Over the...
Seals numbering in the thousands have been discovered in excavations of Indus cities as well as in...
The causes and attributes of the crisis changed throughout the decades between 134 and 44 BCE. Introduction...
Odysseus’s natural leadership, smarts, and cool head are exceptional, and he is entertainingly deceptive and tricky. Introduction...
Rome’s influence lives on in many ways today – in art, architecture and engineering, language and writing,...
Immediately following the deposition of Herod Archelaus in 6 CE as a client king, Judea was turned...
Following the installation of client kingdoms under the Herodian dynasty, the Province of Judea was wracked by...
In its broadest academic sense, the word “myth” simply means a traditional story. However, many restrict the...
Exploring believed what and the effect literal belief in myths had on given social orders. Introduction Anthropologists...
Ephialtes’ reforms are considered by Aristotle and modern scholars to mark the end of the Areopagite constitution....
The people of Athens commissioned Draco to devise a written law code and constitution, giving him the...
For many centuries explanations for disease were based not on science, but on religion, superstition, and myth....
Diseases have often influenced historical events, but they are neglected in the documentation of these events. Human...
The masonry techniques discussed here cover a broad chronological range from the second millennium B.C.E. to Late...
Magic in ancient Egypt was not considered a parlor trick or illusion. It was to them the...
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...
2,500 years ago, Anaxagoras correctly determined that the rocky moon reflects light from the sun, explaining lunar...
New linguistic research suggests early Germanic language and culture was strongly influenced by the Mediterranean superpower Carthage....
The languages they spoke are usually divided into three branches: East, Central, and South Semitic languages. Introduction...
Plato’s Nomoi and the Book of Deuteronomy dealt intensively with the fissures between rich and poor within...
Elites feared falling into poverty and tried to keep the evil eye away with laughable figures. By...