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The Roman Empire (Latin: Imperium Romanum, Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) was the post-Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity it included large...

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Vol. 1, 1776; Vols. II-III, 1781; Vols. IV-VI, 1788) by Edward Gibbon. One of the most famous...

The Holy Roman Empire (Latin: Sacrum Imperium Romanum; German: Heiliges Römisches Reich), also known as Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, was a...

p. 11. Rome, Rome, thou art no more As thou hast been! On thy seven hills of yore Thou sat'st a queen. Felicia Hemans, Roman Girl's Song. Reported in...

The Catholic Church also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading...

Roman Vishniac (August 19, 1897 – January 22, 1990) was a renowned Russian-American photographer of poor Jews in Eastern European ghettos in the 1930s...

Early Christian art during the first two or three centuries of its existence was merely a development or even a variant of late Roman art. So great is the...

prepended to the opening line "The art of war is of vital importance to the State", but appears to be a variation of the Roman motto "Si vis pacem, para bellum"...

all kinds-most of it I would say, as one of Plutarch's noble Grecians or Romans put it, "tall and lofty like a cypress tree, but bearing no fruit." It seems...

explanation for the emergence of Christian art in the early church is due to the important role images played in Greco-Roman culture. As Christianity gained converts...

day remains our paradigm for Greek art. By the early 19th century, the systematic excavation of ancient Greek and Roman sites was bringing forth great numbers...

antique art. In Roman times wax masks were taken of the dead and kept in the shrine in the atrium of patrician villas. Norbert Schneider, The art of the...

in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art. “Selected Aphorisms from the Lyceum (1797)”...

triumph. Russia is Marxist more or less as the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire were Romans. Chapter XIV: Who Rules The World? Greeks and Latins appear in...

was a Roman poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the last being an epic poem of twelve books that became the Roman Empire's...

(fabulist) (c. 15 BC – c. AD 50), a Roman fabulist Phaedrus the Epicurean (138 BC – c. 70 BC), an Epicurean philosopher Art and literature Phaedrus (dialogue)...

It has been described as a tragi-comedy or a romance and is set in pre-Roman Britain. Lest the bargain should catch cold and starve. Iachimo, scene iv...

venerated as a saint and is considered to be the first bishop and Pope by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Oriental Orthodoxy. Quotes...

historian since the time of the ancient Roman Tacitus. Gibbon's magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and...

Shakespeare probably written in 1599. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator, Julius Caesar, his assassination and its aftermath. Beware the...