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Two thousand years ago, the Roman Army embarked on a far-flung hunt for silver. A new discovery reveals how close they came ...
46 BCE: Julius Caesar's "Year Of Confusion" Was 80 Days Longer Than Normal You can't just add several months to a year, unless you're Julius Caesar.
THE IDES OF MARCH (246 pp.)—Thornton Wilder—Harper ($2.75). Suppose that, after the death of Caesar, some industrious private investigator assembled all the relevant documents on the ...
For centuries, Rome, Italy, has been a city of great importance. Once the center of the ancient Roman empire, today it’s one ...
A few centuries later, Julius Caesar was the first Roman leader to have his portrait on a coin while he was still alive, one denarius minted just days before his murder in 44 B.C., the museum said.
Europe News: A rare Roman coin depicting Brutus, assassin of Julius Caesar, sold for €1.98 million at a Geneva auction. The coin, minted in 43-42 BC, features Brut ...
A gold coin from the first century B.C.E. featuring Brutus, the close ally and assassin of Julius Caesar, is anticipated to sell for more than $1.1 million at an auction in Switzerland.
An extremely rare gold coin featuring Brutus, who helped spearhead Julius Caesar's assassination, is up for auction in December.
Mr. Parenti talked about his book, [The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome], published by The New Press. The book critiqued previous theories of Caesar's murder ...
A gold coin commemorating the assassination of Julius Caesar, minted just two years after the death of the Roman leader, fetched a record-breaking high bid of $3.5 million at an auction in Britain.
This post was updated Nov. 5 at 7:26 p.m. UCLA’s Shakespeare Company – also known as Bruinbard – is stabbing at political violence and its consequences with a rendition of “Julius Caesar ...