According to legend, long before the Romans founded Rome, there was a Greek city called Pallantium in the same area.
People also invested and traded in precious goods, like artworks. When the Romans sacked the city of Corinth in 146 BC, they stole the city’s collection of famous artwork, and later sold the ...
Explore how Rome’s elite imported and replicated Greek masterpieces, turning classical ideals into distinctly Roman art. From ...
Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West's first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on ...
In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...
ROME — “Captive Greece held captive her uncouth conqueror and brought the arts to the rustic Latin lands,” as the poet Horace wrote toward the end of the first century B.C., encapsulating in a few ...
The ruined harbour of Carthage, depicted in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) - Alamy By the 14th century, it was well known that all roads led to Rome – or, as Chaucer put it, that “diverse pathes ...
Christianity spread across the Roman Empire through persecution, cultural adaptation, and the transformation of pagan beliefs ...
Archaeologists in Greece have uncovered rare jewels, coins and other artefacts while excavating tombs near the ruins of the classical city of Corinth dating to between the fourth and first centuries A ...
European researchers recently discovered several ancient shipwrecks in Greek waters, some of which date back thousands of years. The shipwrecks were discovered in the waters surrounding the island of ...