Around 186 BCE, a former slave turned courtesan named Hispala Faecenia fell in love with a young upper-middle class Roman man named Publius Aebutius. Then she learned his mother and stepfather planned ...
Image Credit: Petar Milošević - Own work - CC BY-SA 4.0/Wiki Commons. Roman history often brings to mind a parade of emperors, senators, and generals, all men shaping the destiny of an empire. But ...
The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace ...
Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don't often think to look beyond the city walls. And ...
An ancient book about Roman emperors has become a modern bestseller, captivating readers with its timeless stories of power ...