March 15 is associated with misfortune and doom. On this day, Roman dictator Julius Caesar was murdered at the hands of ...

A powerful storm revealed odd formations on the seabed off the coast of this African country, unveiling an entirely forgotten ...

the Roman novelist Petronius has a cinaedus suggest that both he and his fellows have had their genitals removed. In a fable by Phaedrus, also written in the first century A.D., a barbarian is ...

In the ancient Roman world, which I study ... A.D., a barbarian is threatening the troops of the military leader, Pompey the Great. All are afraid to challenge this fierce opponent until a ...

While the “frivolous East” may have been happy to venerate men as though they were gods, the serious men of the Roman ...

In the autumn of 55 BC Pompey the Great, one of the most powerful generals of the Late Roman Republic, opened his brand new theatre. It was the first theatre ever to be constructed in ancient Rome and ...