Ancient Greeks prepared Roman gladiators for violent contests, although these were quite different from the Olympics the ...

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

In the Antiquitates Romanae, Dionysius of Halicarnassus presents the Romans as a nation of Greeks. Throughout his narrative, Dionysius shows how the Romans have surpassed other Greek nations in the ...

Journalist Thomas Ricks, author of the new book, "First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country." photo credit, Alessandro Vulcano) The ...

At the beginning of Charles Freeman’s lively survey of Greek thought after the Romans began running the world, readers attend a party stocked with Stoics, Platonists, Peripatetics (Aristotelians), ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

Greek statues are admired worldwide for their extraordinary beauty, but do they truly reflect the actual appearance of the ...

Catherine Sturgill was a freshman in high school when she joined the National Junior Classical League in 1981 because of her interest in Latin. That same year, she attended her first national ...