Era of Australopithecus, the first...

c. 3500 B.C.E.–c. 1100 B.C.E. Greece passes through the Bronze Age; bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, is used for weapons, tools, and cooking utensils. c. 3500 B.C.E.–c. 1900 B.C.E....

Art and Life. Literature is about life, about what it means to be human in any given place at some time, about human pursuits and aspirations, which may or may not coincide with those of its author. Even a literature that is self-conscious, that is...

What is Religion? What we might call religion appeared along with homo sapiens sapiens in the Paleolithic era, about fifty thousand years ago. These people left signs of belief in some supernatural reality beyond the physical experience. They buried...

This is a list of topics related to ancient Rome that aims to include aspects of both the ancient Roman Republic and Roman...

It all began, Steven Saylor says, with "Cleopatra." Saylor, today's liveliest chronicler of ancient Rome, witnessed Elizabeth Taylor's opulent entry into the Eternal City in a drive-in in Goldthwaite, Texas, , when he was 9 years old. The film awakened a lifelong...

After 2,000 years, the villas at the foot of Mount Vesuvius remain the sleeping beauties of Western culture. Even now, the expansive resort homes of ancient Roman society boast vaulted ceilings, gracious porticos and vast, if dusty, pools. Before the cataclysmic eruption of...