Roman Empire Anecdotes
She defied expectations, made powerful enemies, and became entangled in one of Rome's most notorious scandals. Yet Munatia Plancina had an ally who could save her when everything seemed lost.
Roman Empire Anecdotes
Horace rose from the son of a freedman to one of Rome’s most celebrated poets, writing about friendship, wine, ambition, ageing and the difficult art of knowing when enough was enough.
Roman Empire Anecdotes
Ancient Rome did not burn books constantly. But when it did, the flames revealed what certain writings could do: authorize rites, predict the future, wound reputations, preserve memory, or prove dangerous truths.
Roman Empire Anecdotes
Sextus Pompeius was dismissed by his enemies as a pirate, but Pompey’s son used Sicily, sea power, refugees, and memory to become Octavian’s last Pompeian rival.
Roman Empire Anecdotes
In ancient Rome, reputation was not just a matter of image. It shaped status, ambition, public life, and the constant fear of shame under the eyes of others.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
Romans spoke of voluntaria mors—“a voluntary death”—long before Europe coined the word “suicide.” From Cato at Utica to Seneca in a warm bath, and from battlefield honor to comic threat, the Roman world weighed self-killing through philosophy, law, and performance.
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Political murder rarely restores an old order; in Rome it rewired incentives, putting armies, money and short-term bargains above process. From Caesar’s Ides to the auction of 193, assassinations taught Romans to price power—and to expect violence to decide it.
Roman Empire Anecdotes
They whispered about her in marble halls—Servilia Caepionis, sister to Cato, mother to Brutus, lover to Caesar. The story of a woman whose silence echoed louder than a senator’s speech.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
The day that Julius Caesar was assassinated has left its mark on history's face.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
The death of the Roman Republic, gave birth to the Roman Empire; an Empire that left an unparalleled legacy to the Western World.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
For tens of thousands of years, people have been leaving their marks on the walls. How was street art during the Empire perceived?
Roman Empire Anecdotes
Sallust, one of Rome’s earliest and most profound historians, offers an intense and critical perspective on the decline of the Roman Republic.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
How were the Republic and the Empire treating freedom of speech? How did the emperors censor perceived threats?
Roman Empire Anecdotes
Julius Caesar knew how to eliminate enemies and how to "read" military intelligence, two of his most important traits.
Roman Empire Anecdotes
Laudatio Turiae ("In praise of Turia") is a tombstone engraved with a carved epitaph that is a husband's eulogy of his wife.
Roman Empire Historical Facts
The history of the Roman Empire is replete with assassination attempts, some of which failed and left intriguing tales of survival and intrigue.