The Problem of Augustus
Michael Grant asks whether Caesar Augustus, sole ruler for forty-five years, was honest and sincere, or a 'hypocrite of genius'?
Roman Empire
Historians Reconsidered: Tacitus
A great historian of an age he disliked, Harold Mattingly shows how Tacitus has given posterity an incomparable picture of the early Roman Empire.
Constantine, Christianity and the Battle of Verona
The Battle of Milvian Bridge is remembered as the moment when Constantine I secured the future of Christianity. The real turning point took place a few months earlier.
The Battle of the Milvian Bridge
Constantine won a great victory on October 28th, 312.
Birth of the Emperor Caligula
The future emperor was born on August 31st, AD 12.
Restoring the Colosseum
Ann Natanson reports on a new scheme to restore the Roman Colosseum to its former gory glory.
Tacitus: The Continuing Message
Christopher B. Krebs considers Irene Coltman Brown’s article on the ambivalent and ironic Roman historian Tacitus, first published in History Today in 1981.
Galen and the Great Fire of Rome
The discovery of a letter written by the great physician sheds new light on one of the most dramatic events in Roman history, as Raoul McLaughlin explains.
Roman Naval Power: Raising the Ram
A series of archaeological discoveries off the coast of Sicily reveal how Rome turned a piece of lethal naval technology pioneered by its enemy, Carthage, to its own advantage, explains Ann Natanson.
Virgil and the Libyan crisis
The Aeneid, Virgil’s epic Latin poem, offers as profound an insight into the current Libyan crisis as any 24-hour news channel, argues Robert Zaretsky.