Students of all periods of ancient history face the challenge of having to rely on the light cast by available evidence, and the latest addition to PBS’s Empires series, The Roman Empire in the First ...
The transformation of the Roman Empire into what modern historians call Byzantium was not a single event but a gradual ...
In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine ...
With one of the largest and most significant empires in history, the Romans ruled territories across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East for more than a thousand years. Their legacy lives on ...
Ridley Scott’s movies are often splashy epics about near impossible feats undertaken by flawed but honorable and charismatic men. His subjects are both historical heroes (Napoleon, 2023; Robin Hood, ...
A secret passage used by Roman emperors to arrive at the imperial podium unseen by crowds in the Colosseum has been opened to the public. The opening of the underground corridor is part of a new night ...
New York and London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xxxii, 279. Illus., notes, sources, index. $43.99 paper. ISBN:1032262516 The Roman Senate in the Fourth-Century Empire. Rita Lizzi Testa’s Christian Emperors ...
Rome’s hardball politics were off-limits to women, yet this great-granddaughter of Augustus won power for herself and her son, Nero, who would later have her murdered. Agrippina’s portraits often ...
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