Visiting the Basilica of San Clemente in Rome is like peeling back the layers of history. This church is as much a prime archaeological site as a place of worship. The 12th century church that appears today was actually constructed on top of a church from the 4th century, which was built atop a temple ...
Most of what we know about Roman Gladiators comes from Ancient literature, advertisements and artwork. Therefore, while we have a good idea of many distinct types of gladiators, we have a better picture of some than of others. Furthermore, there may have been more types that we do not even know about. With that being ...
It is to be assumed that no book can be 100 percent perfect; nearly any history book will have either a handful of translation/interpretation of event errors or, at the very least, present positions that are still in dispute and cannot be immediately verified. Under normal circumstances, this would be overlooked as the education in ...
The development of a Roman historiography grew out of the ashes of the old Greek democratic institutions that preceded its rise. The Romans did not rise from thin air, after all, with dominance by the Etruscans and the influence of Western Greek colonization informing the culture that surrounded Roman imperial beginnings. The Romans were not ...
The Mission of Livy’s History Titus Livius (59 BC-17 AD), or Livy as he is commonly called, was a Roman historian during the years Augustus was building the Roman Empire. Livy wrote a massive 142 book history of Rome called Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City) which covered all of Roman history ...
The Colosseum is world-renowned for its architecture and its ties to ancient Roman history. Today, it is only a shell of its former self-crumbled and empty, not splendid and echoing with the roars of bloodthirsty crowds. But there is still history to be gleaned from the ruins. The Colosseum’s construction began in or around 70 ...
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