Equestrian togas had a narrow purple stripe (clavus augustus). Roman society also involved a system of patronage. Members of the upper classes – the patroni – offered protection to freedmen or ...
Odessos continued to thrive throughout the era of the Roman Empire—Varna has one of Europe’s largest preserved Roman bath complexes, originally built in Odessos in the second century A.D.—but it ...
The box office success of “Gladiator II” is a reminder that many Americans are obsessed with the Roman Empire. They've been ...
A Roman statue dating back to the First Century ... Two Italian officers came across the sculpture of a headless figure wearing a toga at an antique shop in Belgium. Suspicious of its origins ...