In the eighteenth year of Diocletian’s reign, Galerius Maximianus, persuaded by the sorcerer Theoteknos, consulted demonic ...
In the early reign of Tiberius, the death of Germanicus left Drusus the Younger as Rome’s fragile heir, but real power increasingly flowed through Lucius Aelius Seianus, the ambitious prefect of the ...
Warning: Full spoilers follow for Gladiator II as well as ancient Roman history circa 200 CE. Ridley Scott’s historical action film Gladiator II has arrived, and as with the 2000 original starring ...
The UNESCO - listed city of Chersonesus, located on the southwestern part of the Crimean peninsula was an ancient Greek ...
In his book Diocletian and the Roman Recovery, author Stephen Williams said that voluntary retirement among Roman emperors ...
Notorious for hedonism and sacrilege, the excesses of Elagabalus were too much, even for the Roman Empire. Lounging in a golden robe and crown, the Roman emperor Elagabalis looks on as his guests are ...
THE emperor is the largest of all the penguins, and is limited strictly to the ice-covered regions of the Antarctic. The interest of its life-history lies chiefly in the fact that its breeding ground ...
When you think of St. Nicholas, you probably think of a bearded man in a red coat in a sleigh delivering presents on Christmas Eve with his reindeer. St. Nicholas was indeed a real person in history, ...
I've read and heard good things about Croatia; its beautiful seascapes, historic streets and buildings, and laid back vibe. I ...
I've read and heard good things about Croatia; its beautiful seascapes, historic streets and buildings, and laid back vibe. I was fortunate enough to visit this wonderful country during one of my ...
Upheaval and uncertainty swirled around the splendid cities of the Roman Empire at the end of the third century a.d. When a new emperor, Diocletian, took the throne in a.d. 284, he set about righting ...
Originating in Ancient Greece, this method of execution was designed not merely to kill but to instil fear, transforming ...