Elizabeth I is better known for her high necklines and defeat of the Spanish Armada than as an avid intellectual, but an article published in the Review of English Studies adds a new translation to ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Sometime in the 9th century AD, a monk in the Benedictine monastery of Fulda in modern Germany copied out an extensive Latin history into Carolingian minuscule , a script ...

"The Histories" is a Roman historical chronicle and it covers the Year of Four Emperors following the downfall of Nero in 68 AD, a year in the history of the Roman Empire in which four emperors ruled ...

The involvement of supernatural factors such as fate and fortune in historical events is a familiar preoccupation of ancient historians. In the case of Tacitus' Annals, however, the issue is ...

Perhaps the most fateful decision in all of European history was made by Augustus Caesar, when he chose to fix the border of the Roman Empire at the Rhine. As a result, the region known to the Romans ...

As Augustus Caesar lay dying 2,005 years ago, he called his closest advisers to his deathbed and warned them about three types of men who might end up with the empire: those who, though unequal to the ...

"The Annals" is a history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus to that of Nero, the years AD 14–68, covering the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero. As a senator, Tacitus had ...