Historian David Soria dedicates a monumental biography, with special emphasis on military matters, to the first Caesar of ...

Amid the constant military campaigns, there was also the “Plague of Justinian,” one of history’s worst pandemics, that ...

Nero, Rome’s emperor from 54 to 68 C.E., rose to power at a young age and remained focused on himself, letting the needs of ...

Apollodorus of Damascus, the Greek architectural genius who built Emperor Trajan’s Rome, from his Column to the longest ...

A messy and petty assassination plot kills Aurelian after 5 years of ruling. Would Rome be doomed to start the crisis a new?

The emperor Augustus Caesar visited Alexander the Great's tomb and, according to written accounts, broke Alexander's nose.

Rome continued on after the Western Roman Empire fell but faced war and a population crash.

Another icon of the Eternal City is the Circus Maximus—a vast open space capable of hosting large-scale collective events ...

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Early Christian Schisms - Part 2 - Extra History Constantine had gained control of the Roman Empire, its first Christian emperor, and he restored full rights to people of the Christian faith with the ...

Ancient writing is so riddled with holes, from Greek poet Sappho's fragmentary poetry to entire missing stories from famed ...

What can a fifth-century text by St. Augustine tell us about the priorities of the two most powerful American Catholics?