Throughout history, there have been many incredible civilizations that have shaped the way we live today. One was Ancient Rome, a once majestic and thriving city whose strong foundations live on to ...

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If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus Gellius, who lived in the 2nd century CE, gives us a ...

I don’t think about ancient Rome every day, but I’ll concede that the sword-and-sandals superpower does invade my thoughts from time to time. And this is the Up Wing question I frequently ponder: Why ...

This article originally appeared in The Conversation. If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus ...