Cloelia – The Bravest Of Ancient Roman Women After making peace with Rome and evacuating Roman territory, the Etruscans under Lars Porsena set up a camp on the banks of the river Tiber. With him he had a number of Roman hostages taken as a guarantee of the peace. One Read more…
A Letter From Roman Consuls To King Pyrrhus Of Epirus After the battle of Heraclea (which coined the term Pyrrhic victory) and the battle of Asculum in 279 BCE, a certain Nicias – and friend of king Pyrrhus of Epirus – approached the Roman consul Gaius Fabricius Luscinius, offering to Read more…
The Rise Of Rome “Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome, and that too within a Read more…