Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped in tales of excess and cruelty. One enduring myth claims that as a great ...

The very title of the film, directed by Uruguayan filmmaker Fede Álvarez, is a direct reference to a legendary figure: the founding myths of ancient Rome speak of the two twins who laid the ...

In Greek myth ... are often portrayed in Roman texts as being in the company of “bad” emperors such as the supposedly cruel ...

Recent excavations uncovered a Roman monument at the Open-Air Museum of the Roman villa of Hechingen-Stein, Germany. The ...

In its announcement of the house’s excavation this week, the Pompeii Archaeological Park compared the little domicile to the ...

The mythology that explains the scene varies ... when small pieces of the same type of glass were discovered in ancient Roman ruins and analyzed. The particles in the Lycurgus cup are thought ...

Mythology has been the core of many peoples lives and continues to directly, and indirectly, guide entire civilizations ...

The House of Phaedra appears to prove that tiny houses - those without an atrium - were as richly decorated as their grander ...

A recently excavated house contains at least four paintings including an artistic depiction of copulation between a satyr and a nymph.

2, Issue. 4, p. 1. In Greek mythology, the Muses are Memory's daughters. Their genealogy suggests a deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, but how was this connection ...

Edward Watts is a historian at the University of California San Diego and the author of two books on ancient Rome. One, from 2018, is called Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny ...

A fresco featuring the bright blue paint of the newly opened room; a scanning electron image of an ancient Roman concrete sample with lime clast, highlighted in red; Dr. Masic inspecting the ...