“Now I am ready to become a god,” says Anthony Hopkins as the Emperor Vespasian in the Roland Emmerich-directed Those About to Die. Of course, as ruler of Rome in the year 79 CE, the victor of the ...

This dramatic clash of champions has been narrated many times, most memorably by Polybius and Livy. Nevertheless, the author shapes his biographical contrast into a gripping interwoven chronicle that ...

Turns out that many men think about the Roman Empire a lot. But why? (Yahoo News/Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images) How often do you think about the Roman Empire? If you have an answer, you’re not alone.

A scene from Hannibal vs Rome, which shows truth can be stranger than fiction If ever there was testimony to the homely that the truth is stranger than fiction, the story of Carthaginian General ...