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.

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

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

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 ...

Cicero was lucky in life, becoming consul despite the handicap of his provincial family ... start in Rome for anyone with political ambitions, even for such as Julius Caesar, for whom the army was the ...

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 ...