Rome

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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...

Are you intrigued by ancient Rome’s myths, culture, and unimaginable rise to power?...

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

Julius Caesar is still remembered for winning a civil war and helping bring about the end...

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...

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...

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

Arguably the greatest Empire to ever exist, Rome has indelibly left a significant mark on...

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

The rise and fall of the Roman Republic occupies a special place in the history of Wester...

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

The 12 months known in history as the Year of the Four Emperors was a pivotal chapter in ...

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

“These people of Greek descent were called Etruscans, and it has been discovered th...

Cato the Elder rose from his Plebeian ancestry to become a great Roman senator, orator, a...

The Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus formed the First Triumvirate with Caesar and Po...

The Romans hated Pompey’s greedy father, Strabo, with a vengeance. Yet when Pompey ...

It is the translation of the famous book written by an officer of Julius Caesar that tell...

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

The Gepids were a Germanic tribe often overshadowed by the Huns because they shared roug...

Despite all the accomplishments and widespread victories and conquests throughout the lon...

For the people of the ancient Mediterranean and beyond, the city of Rome had been a symb...

Indulgence is at the heart of modern perceptions of eating and drinking for the ancient ...

Hannibal Barca, one of Carthage’s most influential generals, lived a couple hundred...

The people that came to be known as Germans originally came from Scandinavia and were ma...

Rome's complex relationship with animals goes right back to its foundation myth, and eve...

At its peak, the Etruscan society of age-old Italy covered circa what's now Tuscany, west...

The modern world has the ancient Romans to thank for the origins of many modern technolo...

According to tradition, the Roman Republic came into being in 509 B.C. following the ove...

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

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 ...