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

I came to Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars as a schoolboy after watching I, Claudius, the BBC series based on Robert Graves’s ...

The modern calendar has Roman Catholic roots. As the sun does not adhere exactly to the earthly calendar, leap days are ...

The most famous gay couple of antiquity… … were possibly really just close platonic friends. Whether Alexander the Great and ...

it was literally by Julius Caesar as dictator, and then by first emperor Augustus who kept up the veneer of republicanism while delivering the coup de grace to its half-dead institutions and norms.

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

In the first century BC, the Roman dictator Julius Caesar used the eponymous Caesar ... either a spy is dead or a million dollars is missing,” Ayan Mukherjee, an assistant professor at the ...

The stepson and accused killer of Charlottesville entrepreneur Phaedrus Acgtblu had a fake suicide note and a to-do list for ...

Considered unlucky, it was devoted to the rites of the dead. While February ended ... so it remained. Then came Julius Ceasar. Caesar adds 10 days to the calendar because the seasons no longer ...

This in itself is hardly unusual in Shakespeare – by comparison, the title character in Julius Caesar is dead by Act II Scene I of a five-act play – at least Othello makes it to the final act.

Health researchers began sharing warnings on social media several days ago, urging members of the community to make copies of ...