On December 31, 192, Emperor Commodus (r. 180-192) was strangled to death while he was bathing. The assassination freed the Roman Empire from Commodus’...
(Soldiers from the Ming Dynasty Departure Herald, from the Jiajing reign period in China (1522-1566), via Creative Commons)
A Violent Golden Age
The centuries spanning...
Einhard (c. 770-840)
"I do not doubt that there are many people, devoted to contemplation and learning, who think that the circumstances of the present...
(Miyamoto Musashi fighting Tsukahara Bokuden, painted by Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), via Creative Commons)
Birth of a Legend
Around 1584, a boy was born into the...
(Portrait of Martin Luther as an Augustinian Monk, from the Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) , via Creative Commons)
On Halloween day,...
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, better known simply as Suetonius, was born around the year 70 to a family of the equestrian order—a Roman equivalent of...
Einhard (c. 770-840)
"I do not doubt that there are many people, devoted to contemplation and learning, who think that the circumstances of the present...
On December 31, 192, Emperor Commodus (r. 180-192) was strangled to death while he was bathing. The assassination freed the Roman Empire from Commodus’...
