I came to Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars as a schoolboy after watching I, Claudius, the BBC series based on Robert Graves’s ...
An Egyptian blue pigment has just been unearthed beneath the Domus Aurea. A priceless discovery that tells us more about the arts in ancient Rome.
Watching Gladiator II, which surely will add fuel to the smoldering embers in the hearts of many men, reminded me how many contradictions sit at the heart of most popular fantasies about imperial Rome ...
Explore the fascinating narrative of forgery and tax evasion in ancient Rome through the discovery of a remarkable Greek ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a rare ancient Roman artifact that has revealed previously unknown places lost to time. The ...
Nor do they all follow the same exact trajectory. Imperial Rome nicely illustrates some of these tendencies. Expansion made republican government impractical, and after the civil wars of the First ...
An exhibition, open today and visitable until February 23, 2025, presents to the public imperial portraiture from Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Rome), through a selection of ten exquisite marble ...