Want to know how Rome became the world’s superpower? Meet the five generals who led its armies, crushed its enemies, and secured its legacy. Their names are etched in history—for good reason.

Invading armies can topple a state, but republics are often undone from within—by the neglect of those sworn to their care. Rome, with its Senate, vast ...

Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...

According to legend, the Trojans migrated to Britain after the fall of Troy. A new book investigates the historicity of this legend.

There is a problem we share with Cicero’s Rome. We have allowed many of our political institutions to become enfeebled, and we have become afraid.