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Though mock naval battles took place in Rome, its most famous ve
Life’s pleasures immortalized in a marble sculpture
On 20 March 44 BC, a violent death in Rome was about to send assembled masses into uproar – sparking pandemonium that threatened to engulf the city. The incident described by the ancient biographer Su
FOUNDATIONS ROME BEFORE ROME The legends that ...
“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...
There’s nothing quite like a good horror story from the distant past to put a shiver down the spine. And one of Britain’s most horrifying episodes from the Roman era was revealed in Dorset in 1936 wit
‘I am toying with the boldest of plans.’ With these words, in September 1850, Richard Wagner first articulated a grand idea which took a quarter of a century to come to full fruition: the building of
