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 ...

Ancient Rome inherited some aspects of the Ancient ... has the makings of an ancient whodunnit—was it an accident? a lovers’ quarrel? a human sacrifice covered up? Scholars have been debating ...

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 ...

The ancient story of the Aeneid, by Latin poet Virgil, describes the story’s hero Aeneas encountering harpies on his quest to found Rome, saying: Maiden faces have these birds, foulest filth ...