Ancient Rome was a man’s world. In politics, society and the family, men held both the power and the purse-strings – they even decided whether a baby would live or die. Families were dominated ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

Unfortunately for the Romans, however, these tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems.

Female members of the imperial family, the wives ... been interested in the relationship between gender and power in ancient Rome. This was a key concern in my first book, The politics of ...

Unlike the romantic weddings of today, marriage in ancient Rome was an arrangement between ... find suitable partners that could improve the family’s wealth or class. For this reason, there ...