While modern soldiers may not adopt the testudo formation as the legions of old did, many Roman innovations did lead to ...

Of all the regions in present-day Spain, Galicia is the oldest. It was founded in 214 AD as Gallaecia, a province of Roman ...

A collection of ancient Roman coins amassed by a former Latin teacher from Connecticut was sold at auction for over $1 ...

Speaking as a former aspiring classics major, I found Hankins’s approach more than a little refreshing and, dare I say, ...

The latest version of the Roman Empire dawned at Fenway Park in Boston on Monday. Roman Anthony — son of Anthony Anthony and ...

The trick to understanding the real Italy, so I’m learning, is not in Michelangelo’s frescoes or Neapolitan pizza. But in its ...

The Greek queen of Egypt Cleopatra is associated with a very public love affair with Roman leader Julius Caesar apart from ...

A Roman sarcophagus depicting a drinking contest between Hercules and Dionysus was unearthed in Israel’s Caesarea, revealing mythological art and Roman views on death.

Beyond the excitement of Angelina Jolie being cast to portray Cleopatra, famously known as the "Last Pharaoh of Egypt," anticipation builds around this timeless ...

While Caesar stands guard, no turmoil at home ... did enjoy a certain form of peace after the Roman Republic transitioned into an empire under Augustus. And Rome, as the empire’s capital city, ...

Caesar and the Roman Republic were different to Trump and ... wars following Caesar’s murder in 44 BCE, Octavian became Augustus (27 BCE–14 CE) or emperor. While he claimed to restore the ...

In the first century B.C.E., decades of aristocratic overreach and the authoritarian violence of Augustus’s predecessors Sulla and Caesar brought Rome to the brink more than once, but Augustus ...