Women secured critical progress in the Roman republic. Their rights were rolled back with the republic's collapse.

Ladies, ask the men in your life how often they think about the Roman Empire — the answer might surprise you. In a new TikTok trend, women describe discovering that their partners and male friends ...

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

A new TikTok trend reveals something surprising: Men apparently think about the Roman Empire quite often. It all started with an Instagram Reel shared by Gaius Flavius (@gaiusflavius), written as a ...

A rabbi responds to a new TikTok meme, noting how Jewish tradition was shaped by its encounter with the Romans. (JTA) — How often do men think about the Roman Empire? It’s a question that’s been hard ...

For what feels like ages now, people online have been talking about the strange phenomenon of men constantly thinking about the Roman Empire — an amusingly strange shared fixation that you can't help ...

(JTA) — How often do men think about the Roman Empire? It’s a question that’s been hard to avoid lately, after a woman on TikTok asked it of her husband and he answered immediately: “Every day.” Since ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. The women of ancient Rome took to the streets in protest in 195 BC. It was a striking ...

Defined by the men in their lives, women in ancient Rome were valued mainly as wives and mothers. Although some were allowed more freedom than others, there was always a limit, even for the daughter ...

In the early 20th century, archaeologists working at Wroxeter in England unearthed three small, copper-alloy trinkets dating back to the Roman era. The objects had loops that would have allowed them ...

Color has long been contentious—even Plato and Aristotle disagreed as to whether it helped or hindered the aim of art, which was always the imitation of nature. Color was decorative, even false, but ...