Meet Jakob Fugger, the man who underwrote the ambition of power-hungry medieval Princes.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Rome
Displaying 21 - 30 of 30 articles
Was John Keats a refugee in his day? A workshop for refugees, migrants and artists took place recently at Keats-Shelley House and the story of the great Romantic poet’s life and death hit a nerve.
Police used water cannons and tear gas to remove a group of migrants and refugees from a square in Rome in August.
Today the phrase ‘all roads leads to Rome’ means that there’s more than one way to reach the same goal. But in Ancient Rome, all roads really did lead to the eternal city, which was at the centre of a vast road network.
Is there a new migrant emergency in Rome?
Some have denounced the New York Public Theater for encouraging violence against President Trump. But the play does just the opposite, warning of the pitfalls of political assassination.
The emperor Caligula lavished attention on his favourite horse Incitatus, holding parties for friends in the steed’s grand stables. But did he make his horse a consul?
Roman decadence reached its peak with the vomitorium: a room where feasting elites threw up to make room for more food. Or so the story goes …
Same-sex marriage is not a 20th-century phenomenon; couples have long claimed the right to marry.
One swashbuckling charioteer earned the equivalent of US$15 billion.
Top contributors
-
Associate Professor of Classics and Head of the Centre for Classical Studies, Australian National University
-
Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge
-
Associate Professor of Critical Cultural & International Studies, Colorado State University
-
Associate Professor, University of Leicester
-
Principal and Vice Chancellor, University of Glasgow
-
Responsable du Département International Relations and Diplomacy, Schiller International University - Enseignante en relations internationales, Sciences Po
-
Lecturer in Ancient History, Cardiff University
-
Douglas Huntly Gordon Distinguished Professor of French, University of Virginia
-
Director of Studies in Classics, Churchill College, University of Cambridge
-
Professor, Department of English, Michigan State University
-
DIrecteur de la Pédagogie - Full Professor, IÉSEG School of Management
-
Lecturer, Classics, University of Glasgow
-
Research Professor, World Christianity and African Studies, DePaul University
-
Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies (Migration, Mobilities, Diaspora), Keele University
-
Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing Program, The University of Melbourne
