Thanks to the artist Haroun Binous, we now see that Roman emperor Augustus was the heartthrob Daniel Craig of the ancient ...

Some contemporary accounts suggest that they did some scheming. “In one of the sources, it even says that they had a plan to split the Empire in the middle,” says Andrew Scott, a professor of ...

Julio is a Senior Author for Collider. He studied History and International Relations at university, but found his calling in cultural journalism. When he isn't writing, Julio also teaches English at ...

Why was the first century so turbulent? The first answer is simple: hereditary rule. For most of this period, emperors were not chosen on the basis of their ability or honesty, but simply because they ...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Gladiator II. The drama in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, out Nov. 22, not only takes place in the Colosseum arena floor, but also in the stands, between the ...