1. The greatest glory for a general in ancient Rome was a triumph, a street party celebrating his greatest victories or, as Mary Beard puts it, his “biggest massacres, depending on whose side ...

Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

In two new books, the historians Adrian Goldsworthy and Tom Holland portray an empire that knew how to hold back from a fight and make room for upstarts. Someone’s husband trying on a Roman ...

Since the time of ancient Rome and Greece, people have dealt with love, this difficult emotion, in all its glory and calamity ...

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there’s evidence of ...

Kathie Lee Gifford's second book in her 'Ancient Evil, Living Hope' series is on the way! 'Nero and Paul' will spotlight the ...

KING OF PONTUS (208 pp.)—Alfred Duggan—Coward-McCann ($3.95). “Mithridates, he died old,” sang A. E. Housman in A Shropshire Lad—leaving it largely up to his readers to know who ...