At the centre of the Roman empire stood the emperor and the court surrounding him. The systematic investigation of this court in its own right, however, has been a relatively late development in the ...

In the 18th Century BC ... About 300 years later, the Emperor Constantine, after converting to Christianity, abolished crucifixion and other cruel death penalties in the Roman Empire.

Roman Stoicism offers timeless guidance on achieving personal peace by understanding what we can control—our judgments and ...

Founded in 300 BC, Antioch (present-day Antakya, Turkey) was one of the most important political and cultural centers of the Greek East, and it became one of the great metropolises of the Roman Empire ...

Whether you want to learn about ancient civilisations, political movements or historical dynasties, there are so many places ...

The city of Dura-Europos was founded around 300 BC by the Seleucid Greeks ... but also the cause of Roman intervention into Macedonian affairs As well as founding many cities and colonies across the ...

Founded in 300 BC, it was a regional capital for the Roman Empire. It was also one of the earliest centres of Christianity and important for both Judaism and Islam. A destroyed mosque in Antakya ...

In 241 BCE, one of the most decisive battles in ancient Mediterranean history took place off the coast of Sicily, as the emerging Roman Empire defeated ... 264 and 146 BC. The latter had been ...

The Greeks first came into conflict with the Achaemenid Persians in 547 BC, when Cyrus the Great captured western ... 1935.99a A number of new religious cults found converts in the Roman Empire during ...

By this year Rome has forbidden Jews from entering Jerusalem, although large Jewish communities now exist across the Roman empire, beginning a general ... The city of Dura-Europos had been founded in ...