The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now ...

One famous domed building was the Pantheon in ... Theatres were built throughout the Roman Empire. Their design was usually a semi-circle arrangement of seats around a stage where performances ...

A number of Roman emperors wanted the glory of conquering ... And thanks to a book written all those years ago by the famous Roman commander, Julius Caesar, we also know one reason why the Romans ...

100 BC – 44 BC / Reigned 46 – 44 BC) changed the course of Roman history. Although he did not rule for long, he gave Rome fresh hope and a whole dynasty of emperors. Born into an aristocratic ...

The Satires, as they became known, attacked cruelty, foolishness and the corruption of Roman society. The most famous of these ... he tells how the Emperor Domitian summoned his top advisers ...

Archaeologists have discovered a hoard of gold Roman coins dating back to the Fourth Century which include the marks of nine emperors ruling between 364 and 408 AD. "This is a major archaeological ...

Therefore, who would not know that effrontery hijacks the public interest? […] It ratchets up the prices of things for sale, not fourfold or eightfold but so much that the human tongue’s ...