Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped in tales of excess and cruelty. One enduring myth claims that as a great ...

There's something eternally fascinating about the art of sculpture, more so when it depicts the human form. Michelangelo, for ...

Despite these differences, almost all citizens carefully observed the same rituals at dinner time – the rituals that made them Roman. The ancient Rome ... of the rich and famous Life was very ...

The statue depicts a Roman elite, Gaius Marios Hermogenes, dating back to the 2nd or 3rd Century, and is in near-perfect ...

Statues don’t talk, evidently, and they never have, except when some clever priest of Antiquity used a hollow in the stone to ...

Your exploration will take you through centuries of art and history ... The Appian Way, or Via Appia Antica, is one of Rome's ...

Archaeologists consider this votive monument the largest of its kind discovered in the Roman-occupied regions of southern ...

Rome is the perfect place to kick off a vacation ... it also houses some of the most famous religious art in the world. The ...

Unfortunately, She Was A Nymphomaniac, by Joan Smith, is an exhilaratingly revisionist account of the women from the ...

Students study Classical languages and literatures in addition to art history and ... institutions. Famous Students of Classics: Tom Hiddleston, Toni Morrison, Chris Martin (Coldplay), and J.R.R.

Lujiazui was named after Lu Shen (1477-1544), a Ming Dynasty scholar and collector, who spent much of his life there. The ...

The crumbling yet still magnificent Ancient Rome is at the ... film "La Dolce Vita," but it's most famous for its wish-making. To make a wish to return to Rome, toss a coin into the fountain ...