Rome experienced some of its greatest economic and cultural dynamism under Nero's rule, and yet he's called everything from a ...

Ancient Rome was a man’s world. In politics, society and the family, men held both the power and the purse-strings – they even decided whether a baby would live or die. Families were dominated ...

Fights also included staged hunts, and it’s conceivable that gladiators rode exotic wildlife. In Gladiator II, a gladiator ...

“I think anyone who believes large numbers of Jews went to a game to watch people killed, as opposed to sports games where ...

While powerful figures tend to take up the most space in our history books, the vast majority of people in the ancient world ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. Most slaves ... slavery as the norm, some people – like the poet and philosopher ...

Colosseum rhinos and baboons and sharks, oh my! — but it’s based on real-life Roman history and people. Many of the ...