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 ...

One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided ...

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 Pyramid of Cestius is an ancient Roman pyramid in Rome, Italy, near the Porta San Paolo and the Protestant Cemetery.

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.

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

it was to honor the Roman fertility god Lupercus and the she-wolf who nursed twin brothers Romulus and Remus-- the future founders of Rome -- when they were abandoned as infants. In the 5th ...

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 ...