Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

Life as a Roman slave was harsh and dehumanizing but also full of strange contradictions, unexpected privileges, and unusual roles. This video explores the lesser-known and bizarre aspects of slavery ...

In Rome, there survives a sculpture which marks the grave of ... In this video, we examine the ancient Greek slave classes and their role in maintaining the economy. We evaluate how they were ...

Since the time of ancient Rome and Greece, people have dealt with love, this difficult emotion, in all its glory and calamity ...

By Peter Edwell for The ConversationStanding in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo voices from 1,800 years ago.

When reflecting on the ancient world, historians often break societies down into groups of people such as citizens, slaves, nobility or soldiers ... but destroyed during the Roman conquests of Greece.

A loaf of bread, divided into eight slices, lies preserved in Pompeii, where it was found inside an earthen oven. Wheat bread ...

Electra’s tragic myth inspired Carl Jung’s Electra complex, shaping psychological views on father-daughter relationships.

Twelve years after the original Spartacus series signed off in a blaze of rebellion and carnage, Spartacus is officially back ...

Gabriel Zuchtriegel’s spirited part-history, part-memoir evokes the everyday life of the ancient city, and poses some very ...

Creator Steven DeKnight explains how the original drama "cast a huge shadow over everything," and why Liam McIntyre isn't back as the titular gladiator.

Starz has unveiled the first images for the spinoff series of Spartacus, while showrunner Steven S. DeKnight explains new ...