The final decades of the second century BC, and the first decades of the first century BC, were an incredibly tumultuous time in Roman history. Besides wars against Rome’s allies on the Italian ...

In a week filled with news about President Donald Trump's aggressive moves to take control of Greenland, the world got a window into his thinking about the concept of "peace." ...

PAX: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age. By Tom Holland. Basic Books. 480 pages. $32.50. “But what did the Romans ever do for us?” asks Tom Holland in “Pax: Peace and War in Rome’s Golden Age,” ...

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during the height of its power, the emperor decided to change that and leave a ...