Believe it or not, that year lasted 445 days. It really happened, in Rome, and it became known as “the Year of Confusion.” ...

Historian and The Rest Is History co-host Tom Holland answers your questions about whether Britain is currently in a more precarious state than it was in the 1970s, what definition of ‘radical’ best ...

As a defender of these ideals, Brutus did not see himself as a conspirator or a traitor. Greek concepts of tyranny, virtue, ...

"He was of spare habit, had a soft and white skin, suffered from distemper in the head, and was subject to epileptic fits, a trouble which first attacked him, we are told, in Corduba." -- Plutarch's ...

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the ...

On Feb. 15, in the year 44 BC, Julius Caesar, the all-powerful ruler of Rome, visited a soothsayer named Spurinna, who “predicted the future by examining the internal organs of sacrificial animals,” ...

Set in a women’s prison, Great Performances: Julius Caesar offers a powerful dramatization of the catastrophic consequences of a political leader’s extension of power beyond constitutional confines ...

Julius Caesar, the general and dictator who transformed the Roman Republic into a formidable empire, was embroiled in wrongdoing and innuendo throughout his life, even up to his infamous demise in 44 ...

A 2,000-year-old gold coin that commemorates the assassination of the famous Roman general Julius Caesar is set to be sold at auction for more than £1.5million. The coin depicts the face of Caesar's ...