LIX, BCE. The Roman LIX translates into 59 in Arabic, soon to proclaimed “American Numerals” by Trumpius Maximus, newly ...

Learn what this Roman emperor's secret garden meant to Roman society and why the discovery speaks to ancient Roman life.

Was Cleopatra the cause of the conflict between these two consuls, both eager to become the masters of Rome? Historians are ...

Amid violence and disorder in the Roman Republic, dodgy legal maneuvering made things worse. Cicero was far from blameless.

Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator ... beginning as he sought to become consul, the highest political position in Rome. To do so, he entered into dangerous alliances and bent the rules ...

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

In Italy, it is not uncommon to find streets and neighborhoods named Cincinnatus, but even more familiar is the name of a ...

A soldier of repute and a very able ex-consul, he had been left penniless by paying off ... which he did before retiring into private life. But Julius Caesar made himself dictator perpetuus – a ...