History is full of sweeping love affairs, from Antony and Cleopatra to Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin and many more ...

Augustus, a man meticulous about his public image and about consolidating power as the first emperor of Rome, had rather ...

The Romans added January and February to the calendar but ran into a problem — math and superstition. Here's why February became the odd month out.

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

The Roman Empire's enduring legacy has profoundly impacted modern politics, architecture, law, and culture. Yet, its origins ...

Calliope Limneos-Papakosta believes the tomb may be hidden beneath modern Alexandria's streets, at the intersection of ...

Learn what this Roman emperor's secret garden meant to Roman society and why the discovery speaks to ancient Roman life.

I came to Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars as a schoolboy after watching I, Claudius, the BBC series based on Robert Graves’s ...

Paul speaks of how he is not ashamed of the gospel—the good news about what God has done for us through Je ...

Shakespeare, turning history into great poetry, comes to mind after all. In “Julius Caesar,” knowing that his funeral oration over the body of the assassinated Caesar will stir up an angry mob, Mark ...