“Et tu, Brute?” asks Julius Caesar in the titular play by Shakespeare. “Are you not entertained!?” roars Russell Crowe’s character to the crowd after slaying his opponent in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator.

If there can be any such person as a "favorite classicist," Mary Beard fills that bill. Erudite but accessible, appealing on and off the page, Beard reaches both a readership familiar with ancient ...

The political turmoil that precedes Julius Caesar's return to Rome serves as the compelling backdrop for Roberts's 10th historical to feature nobleman Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger (after 2005 ...

The restaurant group that gave us A-16, a culinary trip along the ankle of Italy, now takes us up highway A-1 north of Naples to Rome for SPQR, a new Roman osteria. If the A-16 juggernaut was built on ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from SPQR: Crime Stories in Ancient Rome SPQR is a mystery thriller drama about a PTSD ridden legionary turned detective, whose cases lead him spiraling deeper ...

Do you have fond memories of your favorite history professor, who could engagingly convey lots of information, filling in along the way the process of how it came to be known? Maybe he or she also ...

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SPQR covers a thousand years of history, examining just why a modest village in central Italy grew to become a powerhouse of empire. Mary Beard's brief is the structures and institutions of Roman ...