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...

Estimates of the population of ancient Rome range from below half a million to as high as one million. The one-million estimate, however, translates to an astoundingly high population density of 72,150 persons per sq km. The half-million estimate, on the other hand, was...

Philip de Souza considers the impact of piracy on Roman economic and political life. THE GREEK HISTORIAN and geographer Strabo, writing around the time of the death of Augustus in AD14, divided the known world into two parts. The better part was...