Was Caligula misunderstood? New research shows the Roman emperor likely knew more about medicinal plants than historians once believed ...

Brown unobtrusively notes his own return to Anglican churchgoing in the mid-1970s, as a consequence of his encounters with different religions in his journeys through West Asia. Brown arrived in ...

Cassius Dio recorded the disturbing story that when there was a shortage of condemned criminals to be fed to the lions, Caligula ordered a random group of spectators – “some of the mob ...

Graves based the novel on historical sources such as Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio but blended them with dramatic storytelling.

The Roman historian Cassius Dio tells us nearly a century after the fact that the Emperor Titus put on a naval battle of some kind in the Colosseum during its inaugural year in 80 A.D. Five years ...

The Roman historian Cassius Dio wrote that animals were involved in the performace, albeit horses and bulls rather than sharks, which imply the water was relatively shallow.

According to the book “The Colosseum,” by Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard, historian Cassius Dio wrote that “horses and bulls and other domesticated animals” were brought out as part of Titus ...

Emperor Nero, according to Roman historian Cassius Dio, staged a naval battle "representing Persians and Athenians".

To mark the opening of the Colosseum in 80 C.E., the Roman emperor Titus staged a staggering spectacle, flooding the arena ...

Roman historian Cassius Dio recorded that animals were involved in all this madness: “Titus suddenly filled this same theatre with water and brought in horses and bulls and some other ...