The 21st annual release of Russian River Brewing’s coveted Pliny the Younger is just around the corner. It’s so close, you ...

In the West, the practice of exchanging rings to mark a betrothal dates back to ancient Rome, when noble families would trade ...

After holding a place of honor in the symbolic pantheon of Greco-Roman and early Christian iconography during the first ...

Dr Manmohan Singh, while presenting his maiden path-breaking Union Budget in 1991 as the finance minister, quoted Victor Hugo ...

The tale of "The Haunting of Athenodorus" is one of the earliest recorded ghost stories, dating back to early Roman years of ancient Greece.

The ancient Greeks had a diet rich in natural ingredients, many of which are now celebrated as superfoods for their health ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans built astonishing monuments like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and while only the Great Pyramid of Giza remains intact, we’ve ...

This travel blog post is perfect for cat-lovers! Let's dive into the topic of cats in Greece! Why are there so many feral ...

One of my long-ago professors–not an economist, and not a political conservative– sometimes said that Adam Smith was just ...

Its caption reads, "Alexamenos worships his god." In 111 A.D. Pliny the Younger wrote in a letter to Emperor Trajan about Christians: ...it was their habit on a fixed day to assemble before ...

Even the Romans could see this connection back in 112 AD when Pliny the Younger, while filing a report to the emperor says, “They were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it ...