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

I am rather fond of my native land and her robust and quirky republican traditions, but Jesus did not preach democracy nor ...

New DNA evidence from Pompeii’s body casts reveals that traditional assumptions about residents’ relationships and origins ...

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 Roman empire began in 27 B.C.E. when Augustus Caesar declared himself as the first Roman emperor ... During the late third century, the Roman Emperor Diocletian divided the vast empire into two ...

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 ...

There has been a path paved for him to the world of the sword-and-sandal epic with Gladiator II. Of course, considering ...

Now “Gladiator” is back, with the sequel storming modern arenas (called cinemas) on November 15th in Britain and November ...

Sir Ridley Scott didn’t make his first feature film (1977’s The Duellists) when he was already 40 years old. The director, turning 87 at the end of this month, has not wasted any time making up for ...

Ridley Scott's long-anticipated return to ancient Rome is a pale shadow of its Best Picture-winning predecessor.