Was Caligula misunderstood? New research shows the Roman emperor likely knew more about medicinal plants than historians once ...

In about 80 years, roughly the same length of time between the end of World War II and now, the Roman Republic was transformed into a dictatorship. If you had told a Roman senator at the beginning ...

Julius has increased a bit from its 1994 low point. That’s probably because the similar Julian has boomed. Perhaps in another ...

In Rome, most aristocratic men were also senators and usually held that position for life. In the later republic, some of those men—notably, Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus—grew so extraordinarily ...