Im August 410 n. Chr. wurde Romーdie Ewige Stadt, Herz des Imperiums und Symbol der Machtーzum ersten Mal seit fast acht Jahrhunderten von fremden Händen erobert. Alarich und seine Westgoten drangen……続きを見る
In August 410 CE, for the first time in nearly eight centuries, Romeーthe Eternal City, heart of empire, and symbol of powerーwas breached by foreign hands. Alaric and his Visigoths entered through ……続きを見る
Zwei Männer. Eine Republik. Eine Schlacht, die die Geschichte für immer veränderte.
49 v. Chr. überschritt Julius Cäsar den Rubikon und führte Rom in den Bürgerkrieg. Sein ehemaliger Verbündeter Pom……続きを見る
Two men. One Republic. A single battle that changed history forever.
In 49 BCE, Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and set Rome on the path to civil war. His former ally, Pompey the Great, once haile……続きを見る
Wie ging Rom unterーund was bedeutet das eigentlich?
Der Untergang des Weströmischen Reiches war kein einzelner Tag, kein einzelner Krieg und kein einzelner Fehler. Er war ein langer und komplexer P……続きを見る
How did Rome fallーand what does that even mean?
The fall of the Western Roman Empire was not a single day, a single war, or a single mistake. It was a long and complex process in which political au……続きを見る
Nero. The very name seems to embody the character of a tyrant. The years of his reign come down to us with tales full of self-serving totalitarianism. Wasn't he the one that fiddled while Rome burne……続きを見る
Often portrayed as an awkward, disfigured, and clumsy man, Claudius was the unlikely ruler of the Roman Empire from 41 CE to 54 CE. His reign would prove to be one of the longest of the time even th……続きを見る
The name Giotto di Bondone may not be as well-known as Leonardo da Vinci, but it was Giotto who made da Vinci and his contemporaries of the Renaissance possible.
Giotto, born in the late thirteenth ……続きを見る
The Punic Wars, a series of three wars involving the Roman Republic and Carthage between 264 and 146 BCE, did much to shape the subsequent history of the world. These wars were among the most import……続きを見る
Caligula was one of the first rulers of the Roman Empire, and yet numbers among the most famous. His family history is mired in political scandals, tragedy, and murderous plots to forward the agenda……続きを見る
The Italian Wars refers to a period of prolonged conflict between 1494 and 1559 when the major European powers of the time fought for control over Italy. While it began with a French attempt to gain……続きを見る
Casanova. Womanizer. Playboy. It has been more than 200 years, but Giacomo Casanova's name is still a slang word. That name, emblazoned across Europe in the 1700s, is synonymous yet today with a pla……続きを見る
He was the first emperor of one of the greatest empires ever known to man. He commanded unmatched authority in the ancient world and was always one step ahead of his opponents. He had an intellect a……続きを見る
The epigraphy of 1st-millennium-BCE Italy has been studied for many years, but these studies have largely concentrated on the languages encoded in the inscriptions and their semantic meanings. This ……続きを見る
