The same force that paved the way for the Greek Golden Age sowed the seeds of its political collapse: individualism.

Eight XXL leather shoes have been recovered from Magna, a Roman-era fort along Hadrian's Wall. Archaeologists excavating a ...

A stash of "unusually large" 2,000-year-old shoes dug up at a Roman site in England has left archaeologists searching for an explanation, they said this week.

ROMAN SOCIETY. Share full article. Sept. 13, 1885. ... To form a just idea of Roman society it is necessary to understand the Roman character, and that is not an easy matter.

Class struggle isn’t a modern invention — it’s been with us for thousands of years. Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at ...

How Roman society integrated people who altered their bodies and defied gender norms (The Conversation) — There may have been fear of gender-diverse people in the ancient world, but they played ...

See you later, gladiator. Archaeologists in Naples, Italy, have shed new light on the lives of Roman gladiators after discovering a tomb for one of these ancient warriors that lay hidden for 2,000 ...

For the first time in almost a century, a team of archaeologists have discovered stone walls dating back to the Roman Empire in Zug, Switzerland. The Alpine state in the central portion of the ...

Roman Catholics: In His Own Society. 5 minute read. ... Last year he became the first Catholic scholar elected to the presidency of the largely Protestant Society of Biblical Literature, ...

Unlike the romantic weddings of today, marriage in ancient Rome was an arrangement between two families. Like much of Roman society, it was highly structured but also logical and, in some ways ...

Early Roman Society. Share full article. Jan. 28, 1905. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from January 28, 1905, Section PART, Page 64 Buy Reprints.

As reported by several ancient sources, including Cicero and Livy, in 204 B.C. the Roman state consulted a set of prophetic scrolls called the Sibylline Oracles on how best to respond to the ...