Though rare, female gladiators did appear in the Roman arena, challenging ancient Rome’s expectations and revealing how ...

The moment Trump started to talk about annexation, the Dragon’s Den and Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary ran for the border. As ...

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How do we know what Augustus Caesar said about himself? In this ATG Highlights episode, we trace the discovery of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti—the remarkable text considered his personal account of his ...

Julius Caesar received an unprecedented four triumphs, city-wide parties that were the highest honor a military commander could receive. Receiving his laurel crown, Julius Caesar passes through Rome ...

How would history have unfolded if Antony and Cleopatra had defeated Octavian? Would they have ruled the Roman Empire?

The great silent comics—Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Harry Langdon—were compact men, resilient and sprung-wound yet graceful as they coped with menaces like recalcitrant umbrellas, ...

His comedic DNA is everywhere — The Dick Van Dyke Show, All in the Family, the riffs and routines of Johnny Carson and Larry David. His writers included Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Neil Simon and Woody ...

The Roman Empire conjures up images of military power, gladiatorial contests, and feats of engineering, but to the men who ruled, life was complicated and fraught with risk. Julius Caesar, whose power ...

According to the Roman historian Suetonius, Augustus boasted that he had found Rome a city of mudbrick and left it a city of marble: “Marmoream se relinquere, quam latericiam accepisset,” in his words ...