In the late Roman Republic, one murder and the explosive trial that followed exposed the weaknesses at the heart of Rome’s ...

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Cicero lived at a time when Rome’s long-standing republican institutions were unravelling. Strongmen concentrated power in ...

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

Italy's Senate has postponed debate on a landmark bill that would stipulate for the first time that sex without consent ...

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The Battle of Pistoria (62 BC) marked the climax of the Catilinarian Conspiracy, an uprising that threatened the Roman Republic’s stability. With Rome in turmoil, Lucius Sergius Catilina, a disgraced ...

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The Bible is usually kept in a safe at a library in Modena and is rarely seen in public. It was transported to Rome under heavy security and its arrival in the Senate was televised, as workers hauled ...

Rarely seen in public, the two-volume manuscript is now on display in Rome – as part of the Vatican’s Holy Year celebrations, a tradition held every quarter century and which draws tens of millions of ...

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