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

Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...

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

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Paul Roberts, Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments, Thames & Hudson, 256pp, 185 colour illustrations, £30 (hb), published 18 April Maev Kennedy is a freelance arts and archaeology journalist and a ...

In “Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years,” Paula Fredriksen explores how a localized sect became a universal Roman church.