Rome

Rome faced many formidable enemies over the course of nearly 1,000 years, but perhaps no...

It’s quite possible that none of what Caesar did would’ve happened without th...

Discover the story of the greatest empire in history. Randy Jackson travels back into the...

In The Roman Way, Edith Hamilton shows us Rome through the eyes of the Romans. Plautus a...

While he remains far less known than Hannibal, Publius Cornelius Scipio, the man who has ...

Mark Antony’s personal life was almost as storied as his immensely successful polit...

Plutarch begins this biography by stating, “Concerning Lycurgus the lawgiver, in ge...

Alcibiades was a powerful man who made powerful enemies. Within a single war, his loyalti...

Shortly after Emperor Hadrian came to power in the early 2nd century CE, he decided to s...

The story of Romulus is perhaps the most noteworthy entry in Plutarch’s Parallel Li...

It is rare to find a single battle that is truly decisive in shaping the course of subse...

The ambitious and fearless emperors who built the legendary Roman Empire from scratch, t...

Spartacus is the world’s most famous slave, and one of the most notorious figures ...

Interested in Hannibal's remarkable life but short on time for lengthy biographies? Join ...

No civilization is so intertwined with the history of Christianity, and the greater Weste...

The Roman civilization is probably the single most important civilization in the history ...

According to some historians, the success ancient Rome's "Five Good Emperors" had in cent...

If you want to discover the captivating history of Attila the Hun, then pay attention...I...

Due to constant warfare on the borders and attempts to defend positions against various g...

The Roman statesman Sulla had the nickname “Felix,” meaning “lucky.&rdq...

In “The Life of Cicero,” Plutarch details the priceless contributions Cicero ...

Plutarch wrote all the biographies in Parallel Lives with a certain flair for valuing cha...

Athenian politician Solon made a name for himself as a reformer and poet. Unfortunately, ...

In this biography, Plutarch recounts the radical events that took place in Roman history ...

In this biography, Plutarch states that Tiberius Gracchus was known more for his virtue t...

Caius Gracchus was barely a man when his older brother Tiberius was assassinated for his ...

Julius Caesar peaked as one of the most powerful generals in Roman history. In “The...

Gaius Marius was pivotal to many of the ways in which we know Rome today. His impact on R...

Not many of the people featured in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives series are honored wit...

The Life of Cimon is just one of many notable biographies in Plutarch’s informative...

Publius Valerius Publicola, the subject of Plutarch’s, The Life of Publicola, is on...

In contrast to some of the other, bloodier names listed in Plutarch’s Parallel Live...

Plutarch picks some of the most interesting Greek politicians and notable figures to writ...

The Life of Fabius Maximus is just one of the notable Roman lives detailed in Plutarch&rs...

Smart, resourceful, and cruel – three words which might describe Titus Quinctius Fl...

Like many of the lives of famous Grecian heroes, Marcellus’ life was documented in ...

Conquering and blood money – without it, and without the help of Lucius Licinius Lu...

One of the many documented lives in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives series, The Life of C...

The Life of Demetrius is only one of the many biographies documented in Plutarch’s ...

Cato the Younger was one of the many biographies documented by Plutarch in his series cal...

We all know the founder of Rome, but do we know much about the widely-proclaimed second f...

Before 448, the Greeks saw Attila the Hun as simply a frightening, ruthless leader. When ...

The 50 years following the assassination of Severus Alexander on March 19, 235 CE has be...

The Severan dynasty came shortly after the Five Good Emperors, and it also consisted of ...

The famous conqueror from the European continent came ashore with thousands of men, read...

The 50 years following the assassination of Severus Alexander on March 19, 235 CE has bee...

Some of the most iconic symbols of the Roman Empire that have survived into the modern wo...

The Punic Wars spanned more than a century, brought the loss of approximately 400,000 li...

While many people are familiar with the Vandals’ sack of Rome, the collapse of the...

As in many societies facing the social and political juggernaut of Roman occupation, the...