Ancient Rome is often seen as synonymous with culinary excess. Images of exotic – even orgiastic – feasts perpetuate its reputation for strangeness a ...

Ancient Rome is often seen as synonymous with culinary excess. Images of exotic – even orgiastic – feasts perpetuate its ...

Ancient Rome is often seen as synonymous with culinary ... mostly imbued with either moral philosophy or social satire. Philosophers such as Plato and Seneca employed food as a metaphor for ...

It’s important to remember, though, that the first pope in history, St. Peter, did come from the region now known as Israel. St. Peter was a Jewish fisherman from Galilee—modern-day northern ...

He made room for a Church that could be both ancient and African ... a quiet force in Africa’s long conversation with Rome. (Pic: Getty) He spoke against the plundering of the continent ...

Pompous and hubristic, Paul instructed Rome’s finest architect ... them directly – a habit that saw him parodied on Italian satire shows and earned him another soubriquet: ‘The Call-Me ...

“Gladiator II” returns us to ancient Rome, in the years following the original ... Matt Stone (“South Park”), this puppet-based satire is a send-up of nearly everything that defined ...

Christopher D Parkinson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant ...

Beneath the emotions of loss and reverence, and with a new pope in place, Rome continues its spiritual, cultural and gastronomic transformation.

Roman society was, in many ways, surprisingly sophisticated. It built remarkable things like aqueducts that snaked over long ...