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 ...
Like this one in what’s now northern England. It’s similar to the many hundreds of forts across Ancient Rome, with its rectangular layout, rounded corners and ditches around its perimeter.
Ancient Rome was a man’s world ... survive their first year and up to half of all children would die before the age of 10. As a result, the Roman state gave legal rewards to women who had ...
An indispensable guide to the archaeological history of ancient Rome, Claridge works through the most important monuments across the empire dating between 800BC and 600AD – from Capitoline Hill ...
If you were a Roman citizen around 200 BCE, you might have assumed that Rome was going to last forever. At the time, Rome was the greatest republic in human history and its institutions had ...