How did Augustus become emperor of Rome? How did Tiberius Gracchus influence Rome? How were slaves treated in ancient Rome? How did Augustus change the government of Rome? How were conquered people treated during the Roman Republic? How did Julius Caesar defeat the Gauls?
Nero: cruel and crazy ambition: how a once-noble line of Roman rulers came to a savage end.(World History)Wishnia, Steven
Have you ever wondered how slaves fit into Roman society? Did you ever think that slaves were more than just gladiators in ancient Rome? This lesson paints a more realistic picture of the convoluted world of slavery in ancient Rome. Related...
Joe Heschmeyer explores the historical factors that enabled Christianity to conquer the Roman Empire (and how we can do it again.)
Pompeia was an educated Roman woman, part of a circle of aristocrats who attempted to live according to ethical principles (presumably inspired by the Stoicism of her husband) even under the tyranny of Nero. When Seneca was ordered by Nero to commit suicide (because he was thought to be imp...
[1] More recently, Roman Emperor Nero reputedly used lenses made from emeralds to watch gladiators fighting to the death. [2] Modern optical instruments like spectacles and telescopes became possible when people figured out how to make and use reliably high quality glass; spectacles date from ...
By the time of Marcus Aurelius’ reign, Christians were renowned throughout the Roman Empire for their disdain of torture and death. And the knowledge was not confined to the lower echelons of society. Marcus Aurelius, himself, was aware of the problem. Following the Stoic influence of Epictetu...
If the family is the basic social unit of society, the gang has always been the basic social unit of males. Our chimpanzee relatives ganged together in all-male groups to patrol the perimeter and to raid competing groups’ territory. Anthropologists have found that ancestral humans did something...
and in part to the lack of any plausible alternative story of the bath's real origins. The auxiliary myth of the 'Essex' bath is also discussed, and the whole argument illuminates not only the history of the monument itself, but also Victorian engagement with the Roman past and the histori...
How did the Colosseum affect Roman society? How has the Colosseum influence modern architecture? Why is the Colosseum important? What happened to the Colosseum? What happened in the Colosseum? How does the Colosseum reflect Roman culture? How is the Colosseum being preserved? How was the Colosseum...