Romulus and Remus were the legendary founders of Rome, but according to ancient records, they were originally Greek.
For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to ...
As a result, Roman gods were a blend of deities, with close similarities to the gods worshipped by the ancient Greeks ... was believed to be the mother of Aeneas, who according to legend had ...
The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical ...
There was also precedent in Roman history – Aeneas and Romulus, who had helped found Rome, were already worshipped as gods. Aside from their many gods, Romans were deeply superstitious ...
Legend has it that the son of Aeneas founded the city of Alba Longa ... It is true that there was a monarchical past in ancient Rome, although the Republic ruled for centuries before Octavian ...
In the guest blog, ancient historian Fritz Mitthof ... of refugee boats on the coasts of Latium, containing Rome's legendary progenitor Aeneas and his men, who were driven by war and destruction ...
The Gospel was preached at Lydda very early, and here the Apostle Paul restored the sick Aeneas. In the time of the Emperor Vespasian this was a center of Jewish learning. The great caravan road runs ...
The new regime in Washington now has a taste for something that's very old: a global empire, the way ancient ... Roman poet Virgil, working between 29 and 19 BCE. It tells the story of Aeneas ...