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FeaturedFamilial power meets politics – Divorce in Ancient Rome
When Marcus Portius Cato (better known as Cato the Younger), decided to divorce Marcia, mother to his two children, it might have come as quite a shock. The two were, for all intents and purposes, happily married. Why divorce Marcia if their marriage was a happy one? Cato’s aging friend Quintus Hortensius Hortalus was in… Read more
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Rome and the age of the self-castrating beaver
Ever tried to catch a beaver? You may have been surprised when the little critter stopped, cast you a withering look before gnawing its testicles off, offering them up like a bizarre trophy. If you were alive in the times of Ancient Rome, you may well have gobbled up this loopy tale, hook, line and… Read more
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The Romans in Switzerland: Eburodunum
Switzerland, the year is 325 AD. Constant attacks by the Alemanni tribes to the north have the occupying Romans on edge. Several decades before, between 259-275, the Roman colonia of Aventicum was sacked and almost destroyed in its entirety. Around the same time, the settlement at Yverdons was ravaged. Many other settlements suffered a similar… Read more
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The man who would have burned Rome
Lucius Sergius Catiline was the supposed mastermind who planned to burn the Roman Senate to the ground. His plot was unravelled by the great orator Cicero, ushering in his finest hour. 62 BC – Pistoria, Northern Italy –Men scream, swords clash. A rag-tag collection of ex-soldiers, citizens and freedmen face off against Roman soldiers. A… Read more
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