After episodes of violence, such as those experienced in the late Roman ... BCE on the island of Sicily. Most of us are familiar with the later occurrence of the third slave revolt of the late ...

In a dense forest in southern Italy, archaeologists have discovered a Roman wall, over two millennia old, constructed to halt ...

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Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March – March 15 in 44 BCE – and a bloody civil war followed. This brought down the Roman republic and replaced it with a monarchy led by Caesar ...

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