SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Professor Mary Beard One of the world’s foremost classicists, Mary Beard has written a number of fantastic books on Roman history. SPQR (which references the ...

the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus became the symbol of Rome. From around the 1st century BCE, Romulus became associated with the ancient Roman god Quirinus. According to Plutarch’s Life of ...

You could buy or win your freedom. Lots of people wanted to be a Roman citizen. This bronze sculpture of the wolf that rescued Romulus and Remus was made in about 500BC. The babies were added in ...

Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14th and is thought to be connected to the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia.

As a result, Roman gods were a blend of deities, with close similarities to the gods worshipped by the ancient Greeks ... Mars was the father of Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome.

The first celebration dates back to ancient Roman times ... god of agriculture Faunus as well as the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus. Then, in the Middle Ages, English poet Geoffrey Chaucer ...

You could buy or win your freedom. Lots of people wanted to be a Roman citizen. This bronze sculpture of the wolf that rescued Romulus and Remus was made in about 500BC. The babies were added in ...