How often do you think about the Roman Empire? If social media is anything to go by, it sounds like we’re all thinking about it quite a lot. But so much of how we imagine life back then has been ...

As the name implies, each episode of roughly an hour covers a historical topic in brief, everything from the history and uses of English castles to the Industrial Revolution. The first one I listened ...

They had jobs such as: Historians estimate that up to 10 per cent of the population of the Roman Empire were enslaved people. They had no legal rights in ancient Rome and they were considered to ...

As he detailed, his routine involves a personal trainer, Sundays for the boys and thinking a lot about the Roman Empire. This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.

The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman Empire and even of the Roman ... useful criticism of modern Western political thinking, as well as portentous, if inadvertent, insight into ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions, which were without equal in their training, discipline and fighting ability. By the time ...

Much of Attila’s infamy comes from his relentless campaign westward into Europe where he pillaged the riches of the Roman Empire. But he was stopped by a confederation of Roman soldiers and ...

Share how interesting it is that historians think disease and pandemics were factors in the eventual fall of the Roman Empire. Maybe you all can also discuss why people can't stop thinking about ...

Historians record that the unified Roman Empire was ruled by 69 emperors between the first emperor Augustus (who reigned from 27 B.C. to A.D. 14) and Theodosius (ruled from A.D. 379 to 395), but ...