The Life of Antoninus Pius

A brief notice (at 200 words, it's hardly long enough to qualify as an article) in the Times Online caught my eye this week. It has the...

Ever since 30 November 2003, when I read that Rosemary Sutcliff's Eagle of the Ninth was finally to be filmed, I have been intending t...

"If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and pro...

A new Roman inscription turned up in Manchester (England) this month. Before you get too excited, there were no traces of paint on the inscr...

Today, I spent a pleasant hour enjoying the sonorous prose of Gibbon 's Decline and Fall . My own principate is described thus: " T...

I can only assume that it was an April Fool. This week, the Telegraph newspaper's web site carried a report , filed late on 31 March (11...

It is Easter, and I have been reading Matthew's Gospel. My eye was particularly drawn to chapter 24, verse 28: "Wherever there is a...

Mehercule! What a lot of Roman nonsense there is on the internet. One of my posts from January 2007 (entitled The Lost Legion ) recently att...

I have been reading a short book called Ancient Warfare. A Very Short Introduction , by Harry Sidebottom . The jacket blurb claims that the ...

An emperor should never admit when he's wrong. But it seems that my knowledge of the Roman frontier (or " limes ") along the m...