Although the place of war in ancient Roman culture has been the subject of many studies ... and historians who might take a dim view of the usefulness of art as a tool for interpreting Roman culture ...

Defined by the men in their lives, women in ancient Rome were valued mainly as wives and mothers. Although some were allowed more freedom than others, there was always a limit, even for the ...

Archaeologists in France uncovered fragments of a 2nd-century CE life-size mural of Greek hero Achilles in a Roman home near Reims, France.

The tragic consequence is told in the second painting, in which Prince Paris meets the beautiful Helen - a union Cassandra knows will doom them all in the resulting Trojan War. BBC/Tony Jolliffe ...