"All I want is an income of 20,000 sesterces from secure investments," proclaims a character in a poem by Juvenal (1st–2nd ...

Lynley, based on the series of almost two dozen books by crime queen Elizabeth George, is an heir to the classic detectives ...

Explore how ancient Greeks and Romans invested in wealth through land, metals, and art amidst economic challenges.

A talent was the largest unit of monetary measurement in ancient Greece and Rome, and was equivalent to approximately 25 kg ...

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 ...

Think about it: the people who shaped our world, the ones who commanded armies and ruled empires, they weren't superhuman.

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, ...

Theatrics and excesses seem to run in the family of Nero, the emperor of Rome – that is, according to ancient authors such as Tacitus and Suetonius. Nero’s grandfather, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, ...