Mary Beard author of SPQR , a recent history of Rome, talks about the relation of the contemporary mind to turbulence in the Roman world. S...

When one wants to indicate that something is right, fair, or fitting in modern Italian, one often uses the word  giusto.   If someone says ...

A different account by Virgil in his Aeneid (3.163f), has Aeneas in a dream learn from his ancestral Penates that "Dardanus and Fa...

Some interesting points about charioteering, and about the sport that became the panacea of the masses, panem et circenses , according to ...

The theater of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides in Athens was relatively small, compared to the later theaters of the Hellenic and Roman ...

From a review of  Claire Holleran's  Shopping in Ancient Rome: Take the shops and bars you see lining the streets in all the best-pres...

Two economists find income disparity in the Roman Empire at the peak of its population (150 C.E.): To determine the size of the Roman ec...

NPR's Guy Raz offers a classical parallel to Obama's historical moment: When he takes office in January, President-elect Barack Oba...