The original Roman calendar divided the year from March to December into 10 months of either 29 or 31 days, based on lunar cycles, with the rest the year simply left unnamed: It was considered ...

Starting out as a Roman statesman and military leader, Augustus used his cunning and political leverage to become the first … ...

Forty-nine years before Jesus of Nazareth was born in Bethlehem, Roman general Julius Caesar and his army crossed the river Rubicon—the waterway separating Gaul (modern-day France) and Italy. They ...

What did it mean to be an emperor in ancient Rome? That is the question that Mary Beard sought to answer in her 2023 book, “Emperor of Rome.” She wrote, “Everyone then, including emperors, was ...

Non-Western intellectuals and strategists have often wrongly equated domestic dysfunction and division in US democracy with ...

The straight-arm gesture was first popularized by the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. There’s no evidence of a ...

When Elon Musk performed a gesture that many saw as a fascist gesture, his supporters claimed it was a Roman salute. So ...

It is rare to read a book about Cicero that likens its hero to a demagogue. Rome’s prosecutor of conspiracy and corruption in ...

John Bolton, former national security adviser to US President Donald Trump, said he expects that after four years under Trump ...

Nowadays, we probably never stop to think about why money was invented. If you are a cynical person, you won't be surprised ...