Kieren Johns

Marcus Aurelius is remembered as one of Rome’s greatest “Golden Age” emperors. Is this reputation deserved? His reign, from Meditations to nepotism.

Dive into the controversial life of Emperor Elagabalus, whose controversial reforms saw him scorned by history for his eccentric personality.

From divine genealogy to ancient poetry and modern art, discover the history and mythology of Thanatos, the ancient Greek god of death.

From unexpected beginnings, the Roman Emperor Claudius would become one of ancient Rome’s more effective rulers as a builder, an administrator, and an unlikely conqueror.

This is the story of the Samnite Wars, the young Roman Republic’s conquest of southern Italy, and the start of an empire.

Discover the stories behind some of the most famous ancient Greek sculptors, the world they lived and worked in, and the masterpieces they created.

Temples were torched, cities sacked, and their people devastated. The Roman-Jewish Wars were the Jewish people’s desperate, but ultimately futile, fight to resist Roman expansion.

Rome’s Mithridatic Wars consolidated its control of the eastern Mediterranean and bolstered the careers of men who would dominate the Republic for decades afterward.