Roman society was, in many ways, surprisingly sophisticated. It built remarkable things like aqueducts that snaked over long ...

Mr. Chiaramonte was an investigative reporter and producer at Fox News, a correspondent for the New York Post, and a news ...

While modern scholars discount some of the accounts of ancient Roman historians ... and religious leaders. A senate acted as an advisory council. The king chose its members, who became known ...

Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who had once served in the Roman army, escaped from slavery in 73 BCE. What began as a prison ...

Rome is a city shrouded in myth yet full of potent physical reminders of many historical triumphs and tragedies. Walking the ...

So too, perhaps, his habit of urgently convening the Senate in the middle of the night ... Excerpted with permission from The Shortest History of Ancient Rome, Ross King, Pan Macmillan.

“The Senate and Roman People” or “The Senate ... used “SPQR” to invoke comparisons between the glories of ancient Rome and his own regime, as part of a vision for what he called the ...

Tarquinius went to the senate ... large in Roman mythology and was a favorite subject of Italian Renaissance artists including Michelangelo and Raphael. The sibyl lived in the ancient city of ...

A recent study analyzes the attempt by the Roman emperor Claudius, who ruled from 41 to 54 CE, to promote haruspicy, the ...

I was surprised at David Brooks’s reductive binary between pagans and Judeo-Christians. He depicts the Romans in a simplistic ...

The ancient Greek city of Pergamon in Anatolia flourished and enjoyed a long period of glory forging a successful alliance ...

May 21 is a festive day as the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates Saint Constantine, the founder of Constantinople, and his ...