Rome experienced some of it greatest economic and cultural dynamism under Nero's rule, and yet he's called everything from a ...
A recent study published in the journal Klio by researchers Haggai Olshanetsky and Lev Cosijns analyzes the true causes of ...
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies held the last installment of its public lecture series this past Wednesday in ...
While there are many historical events that stand out from over the years, the end of the Roman Empire can certainly be ...
Gladiator II is both bad history and bad historical fiction, Ridley Scott's maximalism never replicating the charisma of ...
With Ridley Scott directing and an all-star cast, Denzel Washington might break his 16-year box-office record with Gladiator ...
The much-awaited Gladiator II aims to be an epic return to Rome, but its overly ambitious story and new flashy style fall ...
It was like a scene from the final hours of the Roman Empire: Everywhere you looked, some prominent politician was degrading ...
Augustus, though careful to preserve the appearance of republican institutions, held ultimate authority, effectively making ...
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 ...
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 ...