Around 186 BCE, a former slave turned courtesan named Hispala Faecenia fell in love with a young upper-middle class Roman man named Publius Aebutius. Then she learned his mother and stepfather planned ...
Image Credit: Petar Milošević - Own work - CC BY-SA 4.0/Wiki Commons. Roman history often brings to mind a parade of emperors, senators, and generals, all men shaping the destiny of an empire. But ...
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Life-size sculptures uncovered in Pompeii show that ancient women didn't just have to be wives to make a difference
Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don't often think to look beyond the city walls. And ...
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Were there female gladiators in ancient Rome?
The Roman Empire is famous for its arenas like the Colosseum where gladiators fought each other in gory skirmishes. But were any of these gladiators ever women? Several lines of evidence, including ...
‘Exceptional’ 1,800-year-old sarcophagus thought to contain elite Roman woman found buried in France
An ‘exceptional’ sarcophagus dating back to the second century was found buried in France, the first time archeologists have found an unlooted tomb at the site of an ancient Roman city. Archeologists ...
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