In everyday life, Romans preferred simple and comfortable clothing, such as the tunic — a shirt-like garment resembling a ...

“Greece, conquered Greece, her conqueror subdued, And Rome grew polished, who till then was rude.” Horace, the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the ...

Journal of Ancient History, Vol. 12, Issue. 1, p. 78. The boni, the wealthy, but largely non-political, section of the Roman elite, have hitherto escaped ... a new narrative of the 'fall of the ...

Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who had once served in the Roman army, escaped from slavery in 73 BCE. What began as a prison ...

The 27 coins were all identified as denarii, a type of silver coin introduced in 211 B.C.E. and used in ancient ... to the ...

Smyrna was one of the most illustrious ancient and Hellenistic-era Greek cities, one of the main centers of Greek culture in ...

political relations and events that shaped the Mediterranean during the Roman Republic. In recent years, the Sicilian government has reported the discovery of other significant Roman artifacts at ...

The silver coin discoveries date to the Roman Republic and are from the island of Pantelleria, between Sicily and Tunisia.

Horses were domesticated around 3500 BC in southern Russia and Kazakhstan, introduced to the ancient Near East around 2300 BC, replacing donkeys as draught animals and beasts of burden.