The Parthians brought with them cultural influences from their Scythian cousins. By Patrick Scott Smith, M.A.Historian Introduction...
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All Roman citizens were enrolled in one of these tribes, through which they were entitled to vote...
Trajan expanded the Roman Empire to its greatest extent, celebrating his victories with this monumental column. The...
Augustus invoked the power of imagery to communicate his ideology. Heading Today, politicians think very carefully about...
Me’dicus (ἰατρός), the name given by the ancients to every professor of the healing art, whether physician...
The earliest remaining surgical writings are those of Hippocrates. The practice of surgery was, for a long...
He is widely held as one of the greatest (and most controversial) late Roman/Byzantine emperors in history....
Many were declared enemies of the state, their property confiscated, and they were sent into exile (or...
In Ancient Rome, fathers were endowed with nearly limitless power (patria potestas) over their family. Introduction The...
To a Roman male his family was his property and he exercised absolute control. It determined both...
The usurpation mania of the third century had profound effects in the empire’s bureaucratic and military organization....
Nero’s death marked a definitive end to the Julio-Claudian Dynasty, and a series of civil wars began...
The old were often portrayed as avaricious, cowardly, quarrelsome and irritable, and they always complained about the...
Around half of all Roman emperors received some form of the condemnation. By Mati Davis and Sara...
This legacy survived the demise of the empire itself and went on to shape other civilizations, a...
Romans were particularly receptive to foreign cults at times of social upheaval to help address new uncertainties...
The idea of a single, unified, and dominant religion shared by all members of a single culture...
Romantic love, although recognized and praised by the poets, played little part in many marriages. Introduction Love,...
Corinth was utterly destroyed in this year by the victorious Roman army and all of her treasures...
Expressions of popular will were still constrained by an essentially oligarchic and aristocratic system. As a Classicist,...
The Romans enjoyed serious endeavors and so the writing of historiography became very popular for upper class...
The Ara Pacis is, at its simplest, an open-air altar for blood sacrifice associated with the Roman...
Societies and cultures that seem ossified and entrenched were suddenly open to conquest, innovation, and social change....
The course of study lasted for five years and consisted in the revision and analysis of classical...
Civil wars in which Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a Roman statesman and general, attempted to take control of...
The Romans and Parthians used internal dissent and succession problems within the Seleucid royal house to bring...
Examining the guilds and professional associations driving ancient commerce in Hellenistic Roman Macedon. Establishment of a New...
Legends aside, Rome’s earliest beginnings are humble and relatively ordinary. The Eternal City Rome is often described...
Originally, the Cybelean cult was brought to Rome during the time of the Second Punic War (218...
In 264 BCE, Volsinii became one of the last Etruscan cities to fall in the interminable wars...