Society in ancient Rome was split into two classes, the patricians and the plebeians, or plebs. Patricians were the aristocrats. Legend has it that the original 100 patricians were chosen by Rome’s ...

Lessons from Ancient Rome is a very relevant and timely lecture as the United States of America faces a decision point in 2020 about which direction to take the country. Reed relates Rome’s ...

Historian Bettany Hughes reveals what growing up in the ancient Roman Empire was really like – from knucklebones and wooden ...

Artificial intelligence, meet ancient Rome. A new A.I. tool developed by Google DeepMind ... is that they are written by the ancient people themselves across all social classes,” Thea Sommerschield, a ...

Parallels drawn between ancient Rome and the United States are nothing novel and vary from prosaic to alarmist. But Rome’s fateful slide from republic to empire increasingly appears to augur ...