Julia introduces a narrative episode about two children growing up in Ancient Rome. Felix and Augusta are brother and sister in a middle-class family. It is early morning and Felix is getting ...

Ancient Rome was a man’s world ... The paterfamilias had absolute rule over his household and children. If they angered him, he had the legal right to disown his children, sell them into ...

Discipline for children was very firm in Roman times as it was thought to make them strong, to improve their character and, for boys, to prepare them for life in the army. Before the Roman ...

Concrete is an incredibly useful and versatile building material on which not only today’s societies, but also the ancient Roman Empire was built. To this day Roman concrete structures can be ...

So let's explore what the ancient Greeks and Romans can teach us about nature and our place in the world. The ancient Roman writer Pliny the Elder, who lived in the first century AD, was concerned ...