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The Tale Of Rome Trying To Ward Off A Plague Through Kindness

Around the year 399 BCE, the Roman Republic was reportedly hit by a terrible plague. The outbreak of disease was so bad that the...

Rome Battled Through A Terrible Epidemic During The Second Veientine War

Lars Tolumnius, tyrant or king of Veii, brought about the Second Veientine War in 437 BCE, when he executed four Roman envoys, prompting Rome...

The Laurel Wreaths That May Have Doomed Julius Caesar

  In the final year of his life, Julius Caesar reportedly had several odd incidents involving laurel wreaths. It is possible that he may have...

The Sibylline Books Are One Of The Most Important Topics of Roman History, But...

(Woodcut of Sibyl Almathea from a German translation by Heinrich Steinhöwel of Giovanni Boccaccio, c. 1474,via Creative Commons 2.0 (CC 2.0)   Thankfully for us, ancient...