A recent study published in the journal Klio by researchers Haggai Olshanetsky and Lev Cosijns analyzes the true causes of ...

Augustus, though careful to preserve the appearance of republican institutions, held ultimate authority, effectively making ...

Rome teeters on the brink in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II.” Its fall is said to be imminent. The dream it once symbolized is ...

The official date of the Roman empire’s end is generally considered to be 476 C.E. However, the empire did not succumb to a sudden collapse. It had been slowly declining over the course of several ...

Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen, Pedro Pascal and director Sir Ridley Scott walked the red carpet in London.

Stoicism isn’t just a set of ideas; it’s meant to be put into practice. The ancient philosophy is finding new fans through ...

The establishment of the United States marked the reemergence of the large-scale republican state. In 1787, after the ...

The Roman Empire collapsed but the way in which it collapsed has been crucially misunderstood. So what have historians gotten ...

The legendary Roman empire took in every country around the Mediterranean Sea (which the Romans called “Mare Nostrum”—”Our Sea.”) It was so powerful that it managed to last for 500 years in the West ...

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies held the last installment of its public lecture series this past Wednesday in ...

In a phrase only a beltway scholar could coin, Olsen called the 2024 election a “binomial contest of values.” Human ...