Roman Monument
Anthony Grafton remembers Theodor Mommsen, the great German historian of the Roman republic and literary giant of his day.
Roman Empire
Constantine: Britain’s Roman Emperor
Christopher Kelly introduces the Emperor Constantine.
Not the Eternal City
Alex Butterworth looks at the parallels between the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans recently, and the devastation suffered by Pompeii in the first century AD.
Childhood in the Roman Empire
Ray Laurence considers how children were seen in ancient Rome and looks at some of the harsher aspects of childhood – sickness, violence and endless work.
Julius Caesar’s First Landing in Britain
Julius Caesar first landed in Britain on August 26th, 55 BC, but it was almost another hundred years before the Romans actually conquered Britain in AD 43.
Heads or Tails?
A late-Roman coin unearthed in an Oxfordshire field and on show in the Ashmolean Museum leads Llewelyn Morgan to ponder the misleading messages on the faces of coins.
Roman Britain: Ruling Britannia
Archaeologist Miles Russell describes recent discoveries which overturn accepted views about the Roman invasion of Britain.
The End of The Roman Empire: Did it Collapse or Was it Transformed?
Bryan Ward-Perkins finds that archaeology offers unarguable evidence for an abrupt ending.
Abdication of the Emperor Diocletian
The Roman emperor abdicated on May 1st, 305.
Gladiator and the Myths of Rome
T.P. Wiseman looks at the development of the myth of ancient Rome, derived from the way its history has been seen.