PBS doc sheds light on women's roles in Imperial Rome by alissa macmillan ero may have been emperor of Rome in A.D. 54, but he still had to deal with his mother, Agrippina. She was popular.

Noncitizens, slaves and women weren't permitted to wear togas, though prostitutes could. Togas were worn from the beginning of the Roman empire through to its end and originated from an Etruscan ...

Traditionally, Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers.

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the ...

Raquel Welch, crowned as ‘most desired woman’ of the 1970s, dies at 82 Welch once lived in Dallas and served cocktails at the old Cabana Motor Hotel while dressed in a Roman toga. By The ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city.