Bodies, potentially decaying, were a more common sight in ancient Rome than now. Suetonius, writing in the first century CE, ...

What’s interesting about Rome is that they experienced something like 150 years of political dysfunction and a brutal civil war before they finally scrapped the republic for an empire. That’s ...

In “Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years,” Paula Fredriksen explores how a localized sect became a universal Roman church.

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