Ms. Cargill-Martin is a writer and classical scholar. The ascendant right wing loves ancient Rome. Its adherents love its glories. They love its ideals of hard, unbending masculinity. And they ...

One ancient writer describes Julia, Augustus’ only daughter, entertaining her lovers in public in the Roman ... is said to have taken part in a competition with Rome’s leading prostitute ...

There were gods for almost everything, like thunder, love, war, wisdom and even the sewer in Rome. The Romans were always trying to keep on the good side of their gods. They made offerings at ...