A prolific writer from the ancient Greek city of Chalkis, Christina loves Ancient Greek and Roman Empire's tales of gods and mortals. Currently finds inspiration from Ancient Roman monuments in Lisbon
Roman Empire Historical Facts
Rome’s deepest advance into Germania was led not by a veteran general, but by a man in his twenties. Nero Claudius Drusus carried Roman power farther north than any commander before him, before his sudden death froze an unfinished conquest into legend.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
The defeat at Arausio in 105 BCE was more than a battlefield disaster. It exposed deep fractures in Roman command, reshaped military power, and left a psychological legacy that influenced Roman responses to crisis for generations.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
Rome’s worst emperors were not defined by excess alone. From rigidity and paralysis to paranoia and absence, these reigns reveal how imperial power failed – and why those failures mattered.
Roman Empire News
The Lycurgus Cup combines myth, glass, and light into a single object whose colour changes with its environment. Through material behaviour rather than theory, it reveals how Roman craft exploited visual effects long before their physical causes were understood.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
Discovered beneath the ruins of Dura-Europos, a group of painted Roman shields preserves rare evidence of military equipment, artistic practice, and frontier life on Rome’s eastern edge shortly before the city’s destruction in 256 CE.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
More than a gourmand, Apicius became a name that absorbed generations of Roman cooks. De Re Coquinaria is not a single author’s work, but the most complete survival of ancient kitchen practice, preserved under a reputation built on excess.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
Life in ancient Rome depended on knowing how the city worked in practice. Class, family, clothing, housing, food, and patronage shaped survival in a society where hierarchy governed every aspect of daily life.
Roman Empire Anecdotes
A figure known through fragments, proximity, and performance offers a rare view into how Roman society operated when authority was informal and observation mattered more than power.
Roman Empire Anecdotes
Some societies spoke their news aloud. Others fixed it in place, allowing it to be encountered, consulted, and remembered. In Rome, public information followed a path shaped by visibility, authority, and daily life.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
Some Roman decisions were made quietly, but their effects were permanent: names changed, heirs appeared, and obligations shifted hands. Behind the formal language of law stood a society trying to protect continuity in a world marked by mortality, status, and competing claims.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
Across the Roman world, daily interaction followed rules that were rarely written down. Power, identity, and belonging were negotiated through habits people learned by listening.
Roman Empire Anecdotes
Before weeks were named and calendars fixed, Romans lived by a different rhythm. Every eighth day, markets reshaped movement, trade, and public life, revealing how time, economy, religion, and power were woven together in the Roman world.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
Was Saturnalia of the ancient Romans what Christmas is for us today? The two have a lot in common. How was Saturnalia celebrated?
Roman Empire Anecdotes
In an age exhausted by civil war, Rome did not want debate—it wanted certainty. Velleius Paterculus offered a history that moved fast, closed wounds, and presented the new order not as rupture, but as recovery.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
Stone built Rome’s image, but leather sustained its daily life. From tanneries and shoemakers to soldiers on the frontier, this invisible material economy supported movement, labor, and power across the Empire.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
Not every account of the past aims to preserve memory alone. Some are crafted to impose order, meaning, and authority on events that resist easy explanation.