Explore the history of Ancient Rome — from the founding of the Republic to the fall of the Empire. Politics, warfare, culture, and legacy.
At Millesgården, the sculptor Carl Milles’s studio and museum on the island of Lidingö outside Stockholm, a copy of the Capitoline Wolf stands in the open air, green with patina, the two infants nursing beneath the she-wolf’s belly on a red granite plinth. Ivy climbs the wall …
In the Greek and Roman antiquities hall of the Louvre, in a room of vaulted ceilings and warm museum light, four marble figures stand back-to-back …
The unconquered sun — Sol Invictus — was the dominant religious force in the Roman Empire during the decades immediately before Christianity became …
There is a specific category of object that exists in every tourist market in the world: the miniature Eiffel Tower, made in China, sold in Paris, …
Denis Foyatier carved this Spartacus in 1830 and put him in the Louvre’s Cour Puget, where he has stood ever since in a room of arched windows and …
Steven Saylor began publishing his Roma Sub Rosa mystery series in 1991 with Roman Blood, a novel centered on one of Cicero’s actual legal cases — the …
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus wrote the Lives of the Twelve Caesars — biographies of Julius Caesar through Domitian — probably in the early second …
Tacitus is the most important historian the Roman world produced and one of the most important historians in any tradition. He is also, unmistakably, …
In the autumn of 9 AD, three Roman legions — the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth — were destroyed in the forests of Germania over the course …
Frontinus, the Roman senator appointed curator aquarum — superintendent of waters — in 97 AD, opened his report on Rome’s water supply with a sentence …
