Kieren Johns

An orator and statesman, Demosthenes dominated Athenian politics in the mid-4th century BCE as it battled the rising power of Macedonia.

As kingmakers, tyrant slayers, and occasionally loyal protectors, the Praetorian Guards often found themselves at the center of Roman politics, including political conspiracies.

The Battle of Strasbourg was a decisive Roman victory over the Alamanni to secure the northern frontiers and Julian’s rise as the last pagan emperor.

After Athens rebelled during the First Mithridatic War, Sulla led the armies of the Roman Republic east in vengeance, besieging and laying waste to Athens.

The year 238 CE was a year of escalating political chaos during which six rivals fought and died, competing to rule Rome’s mighty empire.

Built by one of Rome’s most reviled emperors, the Baths of Caracalla are an architectural masterpiece that influenced architecture in Rome and beyond.

The Roman emperor Caligula, once a popular darling, managed to alienate all his supporters, resulting in the Palatine Plot and Rome’s first imperial assassination.

Marcus Aurelius is remembered as one of Rome’s greatest “Golden Age” emperors. Is this reputation deserved? His reign, from Meditations to nepotism.