According to legend, long before the Romans founded Rome, there was a Greek city called Pallantium in the same area.

Augustus in power At that point, Augustus had just become undisputed ruler of Rome. Virgil was delighted. Like many other Romans, he hoped that Augustus would rescue Rome from the chaos and ruin ...

Where did they come from?” Without realizing it, Musk had reinvented the plot of Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, whose protagonist sails from war-ravaged Troy to a land where his descendants would later ...

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II invites us to behold extravagant and historically problematic scenes that exist in dialogue with the literary sources that inspired them. 
To elicit compliance from its ...

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” “All roads lead to Rome.” “Rome was not built in a day.” Caesar Augustus boasted, “I found Rome a city of brick and ...