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Modern society has many perks, and one that our ancestors would have surely envied is our ability to visit a doctor and expect safe and effective treatment.

This week we're going to take a look at the process by which the Romans raised legions in the Middle Republic (c. 290-100 BC, think the age of Pyrrhus, Hannibal and the various well-known Scipios; this is also the period of Rome's initial overseas expansion and its great power wars), what the Romans called the…

Josiah Osgood, one of the leading scholars on the subject of ancient Rome, is a professor of classics ...

If there are aliens who have taken a road trip to our remote part of the Milky Way they must be deeply appalled at what they continue to find here – most recently the calculated campaign by Putins Russian Army to murder civilians in Ukraine. If those

The enduring fascination of a monstrous and brilliant society Toward the end of  SPQR, her survey of ancient Roman history, Mary Beard writes, “I no longer think, as I once naively did, that we have much to learn directly  from the Romans—or, for that matter, from the ancient Greeks, or from any other ancient civilization.” Quite an admission, this, on the part of an English classicist who has spent the better part of her adult her life acquiring as much knowledge as possible about Ro...

CLASSIC CREAMY CHEESECAKE Advertisement American as apple pie and donuts, cheesecakes will always remain faithful to our tables and traditions. From New York to Chicago, ingredients may differ, but wholesome home cooking remains. Buongiorno amici: Today, we are featuring a cheesecake as part of the “Secret family recipes.” I am sure you have one of your own and have made cheesecakes before. Most people associate the cheesecake with New York, but history tells otherwise. It seems that some...