The fall of the Roman Empire is one of history’s greatest mysteries, and determining the year it truly ended is a complex ...

The Third Century Crisis has it all. Assassinations, plotting, uprisings by the people, military, and nobles alike. Burning ...

The Western Roman Empire famously ended in A.D. 476 when its last emperor abdicated the throne. But the city of Rome ...

In the year 166 AD, however, seemingly eternal Rome was caught completely off-guard as a deadly novel disease swept across the Eurasian landmass. It ransacked Rome’s cities for at least a decade and ...

Is history eerily repeating itself well over a millennium later? It took Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) the better part of two decades and six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.

The history of the Roman Empire can be divided into three distinct periods: The Period of Kings (625-510 BCE), Republican Rome (510-31 BCE), and Imperial Rome (31 BCE – CE 476).

And charioteers were often the union figurehead, guiding both their faction and their fans to political ends. Re-viewing Late Antiquity through the lens of labor organization, strikes, work contracts, ...

No comparable image of Alaric survives. The book consists of thirty chapters organized chronologically in three parts, plus an Epilogue. The story begins with a flashback to 378 B.C.E., when an army ...