And the superiority of her legions -- the premiere heavy infantry of the ancient and classical world -- was the result of the first century BC reforms of one man, Gaius Marius. The "Marian legion" was ...

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 ...

Gaius Marius, brilliant military leader and six-term Roman consul, heads the cast of a hefty historical novel replete with politics, social infighting, bloody battles and domestic drama.