Nearly 2,000 years after the Roman historian Suetonius wrote "The Lives of the Caesars" in the second century C.E., his work ...

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ...

An ancient book about Roman emperors has become a modern bestseller, captivating readers with its timeless stories of power ...

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical ...

In the first century BC, Rome was a republic. Power lay in the hands of the Senate, elected by Roman citizens. But the senators were fighting for power between themselves. Order had given way to ...

This course provides an introduction to Roman history, from its mythical beginnings to the battle of Actium in 31 BC. The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the course. For example, ...

Workers were hardly surprised when they stumbled upon ancient ruins in the Italian ... Ariminum was conquered by the Roman Republic and given its Latin name in 268 B.C. Already an important ...

Unlike the romantic weddings of today, marriage in ancient Rome was an arrangement between two families. Like much of Roman society, it was highly structured but also logical and, in some ways ...

SEE IT: ANCIENT ROMAN UNDERWATER MOSAIC DISCOVERED ... political relations and events that shaped the Mediterranean during ...