Roman

In 70 BC a lawyer asked a Roman jury to picture a lake. Cicero was prosecuting Verres, the governor who…

Every morning she opens the gates of the east so the sun can drive through. The Romans gave her a…

Two thousand years ago, a small shrine on the Palatine Hill in Rome glowed after dark. The scholar Varro, who…

A priest stands beside a squat stone pillar at the edge of Rome, a spear in his hand. Somewhere across…

In a temple beside Rome’s cattle market stood a wooden statue with its face wrapped in togas, hidden longer than…

Walk out to the place where three roads meet. Do it after dark, on the night the moon goes black….

Every year on the fifteenth of April, Rome killed pregnant cows for her. Thirty-one of them, one on the Capitol…

Bona Dea occupied a unique and enigmatic realm within the extensive and intricate pantheon of ancient Roman deities, thus earning…

Rome kept one fire that was never allowed to go out. For close to a thousand years, six women tended…

In the spring of 204 BC, with Hannibal still loose in Italy, the Roman Senate sent a warship to Asia…