Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

Public baths also often featured gymnasiums, libraries, restaurants and exercise yards. Archaeological evidence suggests even ...

While modern soldiers may not adopt the testudo formation as the legions of old did, many Roman innovations did lead to ...

An integral part of daily life in ancient Rome, ... After all this, the oil would be scraped off their skin by a servant, using a special tool called a strigil.