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 ...
The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.
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 ...
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 ...
In ancient Rome, for example, abortion was only an issue for elite women, who were thought to be covering up adulterous relationships. In the Renaissance, abortion was linked to witchcraft. For most ...