The dog was a companion, guardian, hunter, professional fighter, tracker, fellow warrior, and sometimes a sacrifice in...
Roman
In order to understand the Marian army, one must consider the military structure of pre-Marian times. By...
Because legions were not permanent units until the Marian reforms, hundreds were named and numbered throughout Roman...
Ultimately, it allowed Caesar to overthrow the Roman Republic and led to the establishment of the Imperial...
Dictators were only supposed to be appointed so long as the Romans had to carry on wars...
Domitian’s reign was not only a tale of repression but also one of reform and good government....
Diocletian restructured the Roman government by establishing the Tetrarchy – four men sharing rule over the massive...
There is no evidence concerning the historicity of the Romulus and Remus mythology. Introduction The Romulus and...
By the sixth century gossip and defamation were viable and even preferable weapons against one’s political adversaries....
Airflow, water fountains, and shade. Dark green leaves flutter in the breeze; water splashes in a fountain;...
It led to the rise of Crassus and the devastation of much of southern Italy. By Dr....
We all know how popular gambling is around the whole world. It is one of the most...
Borrowing from the east and west, their culture and art was an amalgam easily identified as Parthian....
Octavian decided he could not simply give up his authority without risking further civil wars amongst the...
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...
The causes and attributes of the crisis changed throughout the decades between 134 and 44 BCE. Introduction...
This great empire lay in two continents, Europe and Asia. It lasted from about 500 to 1453...
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...
The masonry techniques discussed here cover a broad chronological range from the second millennium B.C.E. to Late...
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...
While the Vesuvian eruption was devastating, and many lives were lost, it preserved a moment in Roman...
The designation Visigothi seems to have appealed to the Visigoths themselves, and in time they came to apply...