LIX, BCE. The Roman LIX translates into 59 in Arabic, soon to proclaimed “American Numerals” by Trumpius Maximus, newly ...

Each Valentine's Day, millions of Americans gift their partners or loved ones with flowers, cards or candy as a token of ...

History is full of sweeping love affairs, from Antony and Cleopatra to Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin and many more ...

Torn between the futile noblity of Marcus Brutus, and the clear-eyed visions of Marcus Aurelius, the latter serves best as ...

The Romans added January and February to the calendar but ran into a problem — math and superstition. Here's why February ...

I enjoy reading books that analyze history. Last year I received a signed copy of a book by William J. Federer titled “Change to Chains: The 6,000 Year Quest for Control.” This book was published ...

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they ...

Starting out as a Roman statesman and military leader, Augustus used his cunning and political leverage to become the first … ...

Emperor Julius Caesar put himself on a coin while living. He was assassinated less than a month later, he said. “He’s a living man now on the coins of the republic and that (pushed ...

The death of the republic was accelerated by Caesarism; or in the case of Rome, it was literally by Julius Caesar as dictator, and then by first emperor Augustus who kept up the veneer of ...