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

History is full of sweeping love affairs, from Antony and Cleopatra to Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin and many more ...

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Torn between the futile noblity of Marcus Brutus, and the clear-eyed visions of Marcus Aurelius, the latter serves best as ...

The Romans added January and February to the calendar but ran into a problem — math and superstition. Here's why February ...