When Irene Soto Marín, an assistant professor of Roman history at Harvard, goes on a first date with a man, one of two things usually happens: They’ll either start mansplaining facts about the Empire ...

Historian Southon (A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) surveys 1,100 years of Roman history in this expert and wittily conversational narrative. By profiling 21 relatively unknown women, ...

Diana is one of the most fascinating figures in Roman mythology, known as the goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, and ...

In the early 20th century, archaeologists working at Wroxeter in England unearthed three small, copper-alloy trinkets dating back to the Roman era. The objects had loops that would have allowed them ...

Defined by the men in their lives, women in ancient Rome were valued mainly as wives and mothers. Although some were allowed more freedom than others, there was always a limit, even for the daughter ...

Men's Roman Empire fixation is an amusingly strange phenomenon, but the female version is a glimpse into just how dangerous being a woman can be. For what feels like ages now, people online have been ...

Ladies, ask the men in your life how often they think about the Roman Empire — the answer might surprise you. In a new TikTok trend, women describe discovering that their partners and male friends ...