Was Caligula misunderstood? New research shows the Roman emperor likely knew more about medicinal plants than historians once ...

A new study by the Yale Ancient Pharmacology Program (YAPP), published in the journal Proceedings of the European Academy of ...

By most historical accounts, the Roman Emperor Caligula was a nightmare–a sadistic, debaucherous, and unstable despot.

Caligula, the notoriously erratic Roman emperor known for his bloodthirsty cruelty, probably also possessed a nerd's ...

"Veni, vidi, vici," or "I came, I saw, I conquered," is a phrase popularly attributed to Julius Caesar — but why did the ...

The news of Presley 'Cobrizzi' Chweneyagae's sudden passing on 27 May 2025 was a big surprise to South Africa and the international film community. At just 40 years old, the award-winning actor, known ...

Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar had raised vast sums through their wars of conquest, and so Caligula, hoping to emulate their example, embarked on several military expeditions.

Writings from the early 100s suggest that Julius Caesar may have suffered from seizures. Plutarch claimed that Caesar had a “distemper of the head” in which “his body trembled.” Suetonius described ...

Medicine has known about epilepsy from the time of the Babylonians. Julius Caesar suffered from it, as did Napoleon. Dostoevski, an epileptic, unraveled the epileptic’s mind and life for literature.

Julius Caesar bade us beware of leaders who bang the drums of war.

Fusing heroism and victimhood is the political alchemy of the mighty martyr, and Trump’s secret of success.