And he was right. When Marcus won election and became a consul of Rome, Quintus’ star rose with him. (Years later, however, their alignment wasn’t such a good thing.

Gaius Marius earned the nickname Third Founder of Rome by preventing the de facto invasion represented by the migration of a coalition of Germanic peoples to the Italian peninsula. That episode left a ...

In ancient Rome, citizenship was the path to power From the Republic to the Empire, civitas—full Roman citizenship—was prized by those who had it and coveted by those who did not.

The Aqua Marcia was the longest of the city’s aqueducts, running nearly 60 miles from its source in the countryside to the heart of ancient Rome. The author followed its course, above and below ...

This ruthless African king knew Rome was for sale. He bought it Jugurtha, king of Numidia, murdered rivals and bribed Roman officials to look the other way, sparking a war and exposing the ...

ROME — “Captive Greece held captive her uncouth conqueror and brought the arts to the rustic Latin lands,” as the poet Horace wrote toward the end of the first century B.C., encapsulating in ...

QUINTUS:Oh no, my father’s military scarf, his [focale], I had it with me, find it. NARRATOR:In rich people’s homes, slaves look after under floor heating to keep out the chilly British weather.

In 94 AD young Quintus Sulpicius Maximus died. A Roman lad who lived just 11 years, five months and 12 days, he had recently taken part in a grown-up poetry competition, a sort of Rome's Got Talent.

Fassbender fills the Crowe-Gibson role here as Quintus Dias, a Roman centurion who leads a small group of comrades deep into the Scottish wilderness after their legion has been ambushed and ...