The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code....
Ancient
The migrants comprised war bands or tribes of 10,000 to 20,000 people during and after the decline...
The loss caused a great shock in Rome and effectively stopped Roman expansion beyond the Rhine River....
The legendary founder of music in Chinese mythology was Ling Lun, who made bamboo pipes tuned to...
Trials were very much a public affair, held out-of-doors or in basilicas; private homes might themselves have...
The grandeur that was Rome was actually the grandeur of Roman Law. I In ancient Greece or,...
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 true greatness in the structure of the Roman soul consists in a kind of spiritual grandeur...
Many women in ancient Greece led interesting lives and performed heroic acts and who remain lesser known...
Hathor was a multifaceted goddess, appealed to for a wide variety of needs, who provided many of...
The author of Enuma Elish drew on the earlier Sumerian goddesses, Nammu and Inanna, to create the...
Economic crisis, impoverishment, and elite conflict led Athens to be managed by individual rulers, the last tyrants...
Cassander embarked on an ambitious plan to control the region and solidify his power in Macedonia. Cassander’s...
There is growing evidence that our closest extinct human relative wasn’t as dumb as scientists had long...
The Chinese civil service system later served as a model for the civil-service systems elsewhere. Introduction The...
Among the earliest inventions were the abacus, the “shadow clock,” and the first flying machines. Introduction The...
Little is known about their lifestyle due to the numerous conflicts and combinations of cultures that occurred...
It was built in five constructional stages spanning a period from around 3000 to 1500 BCE. Stonehenge...
In 63 B.C.E. Pompey was invited to settle a dispute between two Maccabeans. Thus came the Romans....
A place for the performance of rituals of congregation. Abstract The discovery of the early bronze age...
What if we understand the play as a story about the disabled body as it was configured...
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 Aeneid was written to praise Augustus by drawing parallels between him and the protagonist, Aeneas. Introduction...
The Hellenistic world which had had no monarch for half a decade after Alexander suddenly had a...
The text of the inscription is a statement by Darius I of Persia, written three times in...
The Hittite civilization was one of the cradles of human culture. Introduction “Hittites” is the conventional English-language...