A compelling creation myth was a must for every ancient civilisation, but Rome decided that one just wasn’t enough. In myth ...
King William O Stephens, Reaktion books, £15.99WE usually only remember the names of the “bad” Roman emperors. Like Nero, who ...
For Romans, Augustus was the saviour who ended civil war; Tacitus reveals how power and propaganda traded liberty for the Pax ...
The Year of the Four Emperors (69 AD) marked the first brutal civil war of the Roman Empire, plunging the empire into chaos ...
The Roman artist Fabullus conceived of even the smallest details of the Domus Aurea’s decoration, including paintings of mythical creatures, fanciful architecture, and naturalistic fauna.(Marco ...
A newly discovered monumental arch in Serbia reveals a family’s rise to power in the late second century a.d. Archaeologists unearthed foundations (in box, above right) of a late second- or early ...
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