It turns out that not all roads lead to Rome, after all – at least, not in a literal sense. A new map of the empire's ancient ...

Before Caesar ruled the Roman Republic, this expansive stretch of territory was a democracy governed by a Senate and several high-ranking elected officials. While this early form of Roman government ...

The cover of "My Roman History" by Alizah Holstein. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House) Author Alizah Holstein seemed destined to be a scholar of medieval Roman History. As a teen, she fell in love ...