Julius Caesar reportedly said his last words in Greek: "And you, son Brutus?" But why did Caesar choose to speak these words ...

According to the Roman historian Suetonius, Augustus boasted that he had found Rome a city of mudbrick and left it a city of marble: “Marmoream se relinquere, quam latericiam accepisset,” in his words ...

War is full of surprises. Sometimes the underdog triumphs against impossible odds, and other times, overwhelming force ...

We know everything about male gladiators, but what about women in the arena? Historical research and archaeology demonstrate ...

Half a lifetime ago, when I was living in Rome, I kept Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars in the Penguin translation by Robert Graves as a bedside book. It’s a fascinating book, full of good stories, ...

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