Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently compared President Donald Trump to an infamous Roman emperor. Her ...

When I, Claudius aired in 1976, it redefined historical drama. BBC’s low-budget masterpiece brought the decadence, intrigue, and cruelty of ancient Rome to vivid life through sharp writing and ...

A philosopher, writer, orator and statesman, Seneca (4 BC – 65 AD) was Rome's leading intellectual during the middle of the first century AD. Brought back from exile, he and his friends would ...

Nero (in full Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) was a Roman emperor who lived during the 1 st century AD. He was the fifth and last emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, which had been ...

For centuries, the Roman emperor Nero has been well chronicled for his cruelty. Stories about his madness include divorcing his first wife before having her beheaded and then bringing her head to Rome ...

Several times now, in different articles, we have referred to a 4th-century AD geographical text that constitutes the oldest ...

Lasting more than 500 years, the Roman Empire was, at its peak, the most extensive political and social structure in all of western civilization. Its has shaped almost every aspect of our western ...

Nearly a century before Jim Henson gave us his marvelous Muppets, generations before the far-out World of Sid & Marty Krofft... The collecting world’s love affair with art glass appears unstoppable, ...

When it came to music, pianist Peter Nero had little use for labels. For more than a half-century, the Juilliard-educated conductor, composer and musician seamlessly bridged pop, jazz and classical ...

He drilled his way through the Blue Ridge, is a key figure in VMI history – and was buried for a time in Richmond. We asked the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities for some insight into civil ...

The IPCA Stun Gun is a unique sidearm. It works much like a taser, firing wire probes into a target and shocking them. You must hold the trigger to continue shocking them. For most enemies, after a ...