Western Rome collapsed under civil war and endless internal power struggles that exposed it to invasion and territorial loss. Eastern Rome survived because it was wealthier more stable and led by ...

Rome ranks first. How could it be otherwise? Ausonius’s words are brief but memorable: prima urbes inter, divum domus, aurea Roma. As my schoolboy Latin has itself fallen and declined, I will rely on ...

The Fourth Crusade left three terrible legacies: a deepening religious split between the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic ...

All eyes were on President Bush and Prime Minister Maliki yesterday, but if one takes the longer view, the more important meeting of the day — and even of the year — in the Middle East may well turn ...

Florence: fifty years ago Luigi Russo, at the time Director of the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, asked for "seriousness of endeavour and unbiased critical orientation". Continued in 1961 by his ...