In the dramatic conclusion to Kings and Generals’ animated series on Caesar’s Civil War, we explore the assassination of ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Good fortune seemed eternally to shine on that brilliant Roman general, at least until Julius Caesar dealt him a crushing ... Not only did she command an army and navy, negotiate with foreign ...

The Village Voice looks at "phantom utopias," lies told by today's despots to conjure memories of great autocratic times that never existed.

S ome years seem to zip by in the blink of an eye, while others seem to drag on for far longer. But some, like leap years, ...

Military life during war or peacetime provides a bounty of interesting stories so it's no surprise that TV shows have ...

Simon Thompson with ten great TV shows that were cancelled too soon… Over a lifetime of watching TV shows, I’ve come to ...

Archaeologists found another example of a crucified heel 49 years later in Cambridgeshire, England, in a grave in an ancient ...

The British academic publisher, Routledge, has launched “Routledge Revivals” to re-issue some classic works that have been long out of print. Originally published in 1983, Barbarians and Romans is a ...