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

“Historian Cassius Dio talks about an animal that he refers to as a cameleopard,” says Scott. A cameleopard may evoke the image of a mysterious exotic big cat, but it’s what ancient Romans ...

The idea that Elagabalus identified as a woman comes from the writings of Roman chronicler Cassius Dio, who claimed that that emperor was “termed wife, mistress and queen,” and told one lover ...

Cassius Dio, a senator and contemporary of Elagabalus, writes in his historical chronicles that the emperor was married five times - four times to women, and once to Hiercoles, ...

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.

From what we can see, insiders were net buyers in Cassius Mining Limited's (ASX:CMD ) during the past 12 months. That is, insiders acquired the stock in greater numbers than they sold it. While ...

Cassius, a saltwater crocodile, was thought to be at least 110 years old, according to the BBC, but no one is certain. "He was very old and believed to be living beyond the years of a wild Croc.

Roman writers including Plutarch and Cassius Dio, known for chronicling the Roman and Greek worlds during Cleopatra’s reign, said Cleopatra was light-skinned and of Macedonian ancestry.

It said that Cassius’s condition declined since 15 October. The crocodile weighed more than a ton and was believed to be ...

Along with the later writings of Dio Cassius, the work of Tacitus and Suetonius still form the basis of our understanding of the Roman Empire in the first century AD. Where to next: ...