Augustus, though careful to preserve the appearance of republican institutions, held ultimate authority, effectively making ...

Since anybody who crossed the Rubicon was labeled a public enemy, thus, Rome was thrown into civil war. Today, “crossing the Rubicon,” means passing a point of no return. Battle of Pharsalus, 48 BC.

For Aldo Cazzullo, writer and deputy editor of the Milan daily Corriere della Sera, President-elect Donald Trump’s return to ...

Scott throws a lot more into in his sequel to the 2001 original, but he’s at a loss with what to do with it all ...

Paul Mescal is the "mesmerising centre" of Ridley Scott's long-awaited Gladiator sequel, which balances emotional drama and ...

Take, for example, Lucius Verus (Paul Mescal), the besandaled swordsman at the center of Ridley Scott's latest macho epic, ...

From the fifth to third centuries BCE, the Gallic tribes of central Europe were among the continent’s most fearsome warriors.

When Rome embraced Julius Caesar as its first king, it put behind 500 years of democracy and never looked ... Both Israel and Rome had earlier embraced tyrants for a time — Abimelech in Israel and ...

The name Julia was chosen, Preiti says, “because it is short, fairly common across many languages and it has a deep connection to Rome and its history. Julia is a typically Roman name: Julius Caesar’s ...

The term Astur-Cantabrian Wars refers to the long conflict that the Romans waged along the Spanish Cantabrian coast for a decade, between 29 and 19 B.C. The subjugation of Hispania’s last resistant ...

Pastor Shirley Caesar, heralded as the “Queen of Gospel,” is set to share her remarkable life story in a new film series titled “BLESSINGS: My Life—His Glory.” In collaboration with 5-0 ...