In the West, the practice of exchanging rings to mark a betrothal dates back to ancient Rome, when noble families would trade ...

Mark Antony, but he is recalled to Rome when his wife Fulvia dies. The Queen of Egypt is distraught and in a somewhat obsessive move, seeks to find out what is happening across the sea which ...

1958's Hercules is an actual Italian sword and sandal movie starring the legendary Steve Reeves. Obviously it's based on the ...

Father Michael said Saint Valentine was one, very real person– or at least the man that the church honored with a feast was no legend. He said he did not know of the secret marriage ceremonies, but ...

The fate of Rome and Egypt was decided off the coast of Greece. On the morning of September 2, 31 BC, two fleets faced each other near Actium, on the western coast. On one side, 250 Roman and Egyptian ...

Here’s how it works. As a man who has listened to one third of Mike Duncan's History of Rome podcast and seen James Purefoy absolutely tear it up as Mark Antony in HBO's Rome, I'm something of ...

In Rome during the 1st century B.C., Julius Caesar ... whom he’d designated as his adoptive son and heir, joined with Mark Antony, the guardian of Caesar’s papers and prerogatives, to ...

In the aftermath of the bloodbath in the Curia, Cicero lambasted Ceasar’s henchman and would-be successor, Marc Antony ... Cicero’s allies included Rome’s leading physician, Asclepiades ...

The Lupercalian Festival in Rome (ca. 1578–1610), drawing by the ... Lupercalia is mentioned in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” when Mark Antony is told by Caesar to whip his wife, in ...