Historians characterize the Catilinarian conspiracy as the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire—which director Francis Ford Coppola compares to modern-day America. The Roman Forum was a hub for ...
A brief history expose on the history of ancient Rome! This edition of History In A Nutshell travels back to antiquity; to some of the earliest days of Western Civilization: Ancient Rome! This expose ...
A vision of ancient Carthage, attributed to the painter William Linton, c. 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art Around 310 B.C.E., Carthage was under siege by Agathocles of Syracuse and his army.
The Pax Romana—the 200-year “golden age” of the Roman Empire—was a marvel of diversity, connectivity, and unchallenged hegemony. By the middle of the second century AD, imperial Rome ruled territory ...
Odoacer forces Romulus Augustus to resign in 476 AD. In September of 476 AD, the barbarian commander Odoacer forced the teenaged Western Roman emperor Romulus Augustus to resign his office. The ...