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As someone who’s studied Ancient Rome for years, I’ve recently been asked which Roman emperor was most like Donald Trump. In ...
Blending Cities Skylines and Frostpunk, the newest free Citadelum update makes the Ancient Roman city building videogame even better.
3) The title "Keisar," or "Caesar," originating in Latin, served as the family name of the powerful dictator of the Roman Republic, Julius Caesar (100 BCE—44 BCE), who lived 130 years before the ...
The Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren is organising a series of concerts featuring music inspired by events from Roman times. De ...
When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.
In this Kings and Generals documentary, we explore the chaos and political power struggle that erupted after the assassination of Julius Caesar. As the Roman Republic teetered, key figures like ...
The new "Asterix" show on Netflix revives the comics' use of a "Roman" salute that actually has nothing to do with antiquity.
Before Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar, the Roman year followed a 10-month, 304-day lunar calendar. As a result, the calendar fell quickly out of sync with the passage of the Earth ...
In Rome, most aristocratic men were also senators and usually held that position for life. In the later republic, some of those men—notably, Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus—grew so extraordinarily ...