Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

Some folks cannot believe the Roman Colosseum was home to man-eating sharks, but the truth isn’t too far removed from ...

while the Eastern Roman Empire was ruled from Byzantium. Over time, they drifted apart and failed to work together. The Eastern Empire adopted Greek as its official language and continued to ...

How many of us know that Italy, the epicenter of Roman Catholicism, is home to some of the most exquisite and beautiful Byzantine churches in the world, as well as churches heavily influenced by ...

After their incorporation into the Roman Empire, the ancient Greeks quickly carved out a niche for themselves in a multitude of professions. Greek philosophers and rhetoricians were frequently ...

(These Greek ”masterpieces” are actually ... Myth #6: Everyone in the Roman Empire looked and spoke the same At its peak in the second century, the Roman Empire stretched from modern-day ...

Fourth-century and Hellenistic ionic, and Hellenistic doric and Corinthian 11. Greek theatres and other buildings not temples or private houses 12. Greek and Roman town-planning 13. Temple ...

Egypt at the time was part of the empire, but the Kush felt they were decidedly not. Enraged by the tax, Amanirenas conducted a raid on Roman territory, advancing past the First Cataract of the ...

The fifth-century artifact was found in the ruins of a structure that may have been connected to the military. Historians think it was used as a protective amulet Julia Binswanger The short-term ...

Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and plot, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual ...