As someone who’s studied Ancient Rome for years, I’ve recently been asked which Roman emperor was most like Donald Trump. In ...

Much of what we know about individual Roman emperors comes from what they chose to build. In the 1st century CE, Nero was ...

Roman generals and emperors offer important lessons about the dangers of authoritarian rule. In an attempt to always appear strong, or even to be a god, Roman rulers surrounded themselves with weak ...

Syvänne (Haifa), a rather iconoclastic scholar who has written extensively on the military history of the late Roman and early Byzantine empires ... has produced a thought-provoking life of the ...

For that, the Scottish tribes needed luck. However, by the time Caracalla became emperor, the Roman Empire was having to fight off threats from European tribes closer to Rome. Caracalla decided ...

The Roman Republic was originally a system of ... In 217 CE, the unpopular emperor Caracalla was knifed by a soldier while relieving himself. Emperor Caracalla was eventually stabbed by a soldier ...