One of the things I never wrapped my head around was how the Roman Republic managed to conquer the mighty city-states and kingdoms of Classical Greece... All the more reason to create a video about it ...

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

Democracies are notoriously fragile. Athenians who lived some two generations after fending off Persian invaders in 480 BC would affirm as much. After a meteoric rise to superpower status in the fifth ...

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 ...

Instances of xenophobia shook the cities, each one worse than the next, in the anxious years of the early fifth-century Roman Empire. Doors were slammed in immigrants’ faces when they asked for food, ...

The myth of Persephone or Proserpina explains how Ancient Greece and Rome linked seasonal change with ritual, calendar, and ...

When the Greek economy collapsed in 2007, it sent the country into the worst depression in modern history, lasting a decade. Understanding what happened, and what the country’s leaders could have done ...

I am honored to give a lecture named after Russell Kirk, who told us to ponder the permanent things, such as history and human nature. It is about human nature and history that I want to speak to you ...

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Lessons from Ancient Rome is a very relevant and timely lecture as the United States of America faces a decision point in 2020 about which direction to take the country. Reed ...

Greece’s fiscal and economic crisis has sharpened debates among economists, political scientists, and policymakers about political institutions and economic growth. Do good institutions—democracy and ...

Once all roads led to Rome, the law of the known world was meted out as Lex Romanum, and the peace of the world was maintained by Roman Legions parading Pax Romanum. But, it's also true that the ...