You've spent your career studying the ancient Mediterranean world, and you're co-editing a book on the working lives of Rome because it's a subject you already knew a lot about.

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The book also has translations of selected ancient texts, so that the reader can discover what near-contemporaries said both about the conspiracy and about various aspects of life in ancient Rome. The ...

A viral internet trend is revealing that many men think about Rome… quite a bit. Our History editor-in-chief Amy Briggs can explain. How often do the men in your life think about the Roman Empire?

Around 2,500 years ago, the city of Rome was at the centre of a huge empire that stretched from Scotland to Syria. The Roman Empire was based upon enslaved people and citizens. Enslaved people ...

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