Nearly everything short of row houses are products of revision, demolition and accretion. I live in a hundred years old house and we have identified three distinct remodels and two major additions.
As the Triumvirate’s grip on Rome falters, Caesar calls Pompey and Crassus to a meeting. Caesar engineered an alliance with Rome’s two most powerful men, Pompey and Crassus. This "triumvirate" won ...
“Beware The Ides of March!” Had Julius Caesar not been a strong swimmer, we would never know the term – he would have died in 48 BCE and never lived to die on the Ides of March in 45 BCE. It is from ...
The Area Sacra includes the Curia of Pompey, where Brutus stabbed Caesar on the Ides of March in the year 44 B.C.E. The Area Sacra di Largo Argentina in Rome, which includes Pompey's Curia, the site ...
In 49 B.C. on the banks of the Rubicon, Julius Caesar faced a critical choice. To remain in Gaul meant forfeiting his power to his enemies in Rome. Crossing the river into Italy would be a declaration ...
Tucked away in a small square, at 92 Piazza del Biscione, just off the site of Rome's medieval flower market, the Campo dei Fiori, is a small Italian restaurant called da Pancrazio. The restaurant, ...
A superb general and politician, Julius Caesar (c.100 BC – 44 BC / Reigned 46 – 44 BC) changed the course of Roman history. Although he did not rule for long, he gave Rome fresh hope and a whole ...