Marble statue of Livia, wife of emperor Octavian Augustus, from the 1st century AD. Ancient Rome was a macho society, often misogynistic, where women did not enjoy equal citizen rights. That said, if ...
Cato speaking. Illustration from the end of the 19th century. The story of the fall of the Roman republic involves dysfunctional government, political selfishness, and constitutional collapse, played ...
When Irene Soto Marín, an assistant professor of Roman history at Harvard, goes on a first date with a man, one of two things usually happens: They’ll either start mansplaining facts about the Empire ...
Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
Around 186 BCE, a former slave turned courtesan named Hispala Faecenia fell in love with a young upper-middle class Roman man named Publius Aebutius. Then she learned his mother and stepfather planned ...
Messalina's sex life got Romans gossiping, but what they really feared was her lust for power. Sex symbolArtworks, such as the Eugene Brunet 1884 sculpture, often emphasize Messalina’s notoriety as a ...
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