The end of the gladiators
In AD 350 the gladiatorial games were as popular, magnificent and widespread as they had ever been. An unbroken history...
In AD 350 the gladiatorial games were as popular, magnificent and widespread as they had ever been. An unbroken history...
Hawara mummies created a sensation when they were discovered, and in 1997 visitors to the British Museum found the first...
The Apollo of Delphi was the god of black jokes. Herodotus says that Croesus, legendarily wealthy king of Lydia, feared...
On his death, Alexander left as heirs only a mad brother and a posthumous son, neither of whom were able...
By the autumn of 48 BC, Pompey the Great’s ambitions were in ruins. He had been the most powerful man...
Nobody probably in the Roman senate doubted either that the war on the part of Carthage against Rome was at...
Towards the end of the 2nd century BC, the organization of the Roman state was far more complex than it...
While there was a considerable difference in the housing of the upper and lower middle classes, this did not apply...
It was only in the 6th century BC that Athens began the startling development that was to carry it to...
Sumptuously housed on the Palatine Hill—the origin of our word “palace”—is His Highness Claudius Nero, Head of the State, Commander-in-Chief...