Her previous book, ‘ SPQR ‘, which is also available in Folio Society edition, took readers on an exhilarating journey back in time to the origins of the Roman Republic, a period in the history of ...

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Unfortunately, She Was A Nymphomaniac, by Joan Smith, is an exhilaratingly revisionist account of the women from the ...

The use of "anno domini" and "before Christ" to mark time began in the early days of Christianity, and they're still used to track calendar years today. When reading historical texts or delving ...

Here's what the ancient Greeks and Romans can teach us about the environment and ourselves. From Roman soldiers in crowded ...

Bad policies had polluted the river's waters. For example, the emperor Nero (37–68 AD) dumped huge amounts of rotten grain into the river. The Greeks and Romans introduced various measures to ...

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Today the perilous state of the environment is often in the news. Many stories describe how Earth is being damaged by human beings and discuss ways to prevent this. These concerns are not new.

Augustus promised peace and made this his political program ... as it was initially caused by a crisis affecting the imperial regime itself, weakened during Nero’s reign. However, within this complex ...