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Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is ...
When Julius Caesar wrote a series of histories about the Gallic Wars around 53 B.C.E., he mentioned a fascinating group of ...
Unfortunately for the Romans, however, these tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems.
At Palmyra (an ancient city in what’s now Syria ... And in the first century BCE, Roman leader Julius Caesar gave his lover, Servilia (mother to his murderer Marcus Brutus), an imported black ...
The Ulpian Library, a great library in the center of Rome, was founded by Emperor Trajan, who ruled around the turn of the second century C.E. Referenced often by ancient authors, it could have ...