The Rex Sacrorum, even by the time of our sources for Ancient Rome, is something of a mystery and could certainly be the subject of its...

Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbartus was, no doubt, a very interesting and important man in his own lifetime in the late 3rd and early 2nd...

When we think of great men of the last century of the Roman Republic that rose to be placed on a pedestal above mortals in their own time...

Pompey’s return to Rome marks a shift from the religious programme that he adopted in the east. It goes from stressing his own divinity,...

The title of this post is certainly interesting, it can be found in both Appian and Dio and are words attributed to the Emperor Hadrian...

Pompey the Great is often seen as the nearly man of the Roman late republic. Naturally compared to his contemporary, and eventual...

The bull coinage of Julian the Apostate has long been a topic of debate in academic circles, the bronze coin depicts a Bull standing to...