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Ancient Rome has been a popular subject in movies since the early days of silent films, with some of the world's earliest blockbusters being set in this time period. The best movies about Ancient ...
Who were the women who inhabited ancient Pompeii? A new exhibition of art, objects, and personal testimonies has the answers.
A viral trend on the video sharing app involves women asking the men in their lives how often they think about ancient Rome. In the videos, women are shocked to discover that men seem to think ...
From there, more women began asking the men in their lives how often they think about the Roman Empire in Tiktok videos and Reels ... by the farcical work of ancient Roman playwright Plautus ...
When you become an ancient historian, you pick a side: You either become a Roman person or a Greek person. I kept seeing books about Greek women retold and re-imagined, and I thought the Romans ...
Historian Michael Taylor rates depictions of ancient Rome in movies and TV shows. He reviews the depiction of gladiator fights in "Gladiator," starring Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix.
Other women, attract attention for their flagrant sexual excesses. One ancient writer describes Julia, Augustus’ only daughter, entertaining her lovers in public in the Roman forum. While ...
A new social media trend prompting women to ask the men in their ... isn’t just “guy stuff,” as some men in videos called it. “Ancient Rome was of course patriarchal and violent ...