Originally written in 121 CE during Emperor Hadrian's time (the one who built Hadrian's Wall, where you can still hike today ...

In two new books, the historians Adrian Goldsworthy and Tom Holland portray an empire that knew how to hold back from a fight and make room for upstarts. Someone’s husband trying on a Roman ...

1. The greatest glory for a general in ancient Rome was a triumph, a street party celebrating his greatest victories or, as Mary Beard puts it, his “biggest massacres, depending on whose side ...

From SPQR by Mary Beard to Are We Rome? by Cullen Murphy, these four books are the best to read to learn about the Roman Empire ... A History of Ancient Rome $18.99 $12.14 Buy Now On Amazon The ...

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome In 2016’s “SPQR,” Mary Beard passionately narrates the history of Rome, spanning nearly a thousand years of history in a highly informative and readable prose.

The debate about ebooks v paper books is nothing new. Keith Houston explains how a very similar debate raged as the first books came to be in ancient Rome. The book is changing. Electronic books ...

A book spotlighting the Roman emperor even as an idea could all too easily play into the hands of those who see in him, and in Rome more generally, an ideal, a fantasy through which to fetishize ...

In her groundbreaking books Guardians of Letters and The Gendered Palimpsest, Cornell professor Kim Haines Eitzen, shows that at an elite level, women were an important part of ancient book cultures.

Ancient Rome refers to a city that became the center of an empire that flourished for roughly 600 years. During that time, the empire would grow to stretch from northern England to the Middle East ...