Mithridates was a Greco-Persian king, who left his mark in history for his war against the Romans and for developing immunity ...

The 1st century CE Roman author Tacitus is one of the most important primary sources that we have for Rome under the ...

Their insurrection came to be known as the Third Servile War, or the Gladiators ... threat from Spartacus seriously and the Roman politician and general Marcus Licinius Crassus led an army ...

A superb general and politician, Julius Caesar (c.100 BC – 44 BC / Reigned 46 – 44 BC) changed the course of Roman history ... Pompey was a war hero who had been badly treated by the Senate ...

Hughes, who has written widely on the late Roman Army, including Aetius: Attila's Nemesis, gives us an excellent life and times of Flavius Belisarius (c. AD 505-5 65), the Emperor Justinian’s great ...

Leading these campaigns, a brilliant Roman general named Flavius Belisarius - a skilled tactician, inspirational leader, pragmatic and humane. This is the story of those campaigns, as recorded by ...

“Look at the Romans fighting with cutoff heads in their mouths. War is war. The Roman legions were known to be quite violent and fierce.” Yet once the Dacians were vanquished, they became a ...