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Roman gods & goddesses: everything you wanted to know.

Tom Holland on Rome’s golden age.

Illustration of Spartacus, the escaped gladiator who became a leader in the Third Servile War, and his comrades using vines to abseil down the slopes of Mount Vesuvius in preparation of a surprise attack.

The Servile Wars: Spartacus & the rebellions that threatened the Roman Republic

An EID MAR coin showing two daggers and a helmet

The coin that celebrates Caesar's murder

A painting by Vincenzo Camuccini depicting the death of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

The death of Caesar: do we know the whole story?

Episode 6The evil that men do.

Episode 3Master of his fate.

Episode 5The dogs of war.

Episode 4Honourable men.

Episode 2Was this ambition?.

Episode 1Beware the Ides of March.

Julius Caesar

QuizHow much do you know about Julius Caesar?

Et Tu, Brute?What did Caesar say before he died?

What can we learn from the fall of Rome?.

Sex, scandal and slander: who was Messalina?

Messalina: sex, slander & scandal in imperial Rome.

Goths: everything you wanted to know.

Bronze Boudica statue against summer sky in London

What did Boudica’s Iceni warriors look like?

Boudica’s rebellion: a blood-soaked blow to the Roman empire.

Bust of Heliogabalus

From sex scandals to religious controversy: Rome's forgotten emperor Heliogabalus

The end of Roman BritainWhat really happened?.

Heliogabalus: Rome’s scandalous emperor.

Augustus Caesar, first Roman Emperor.

Everything you wanted to know about the Roman emperors

A painting of Hannibal leading his men into Italy in 218 BC, seated on top a war elephant (Photo by Peter Horree / Alamy Stock Photo)

What if...Hannibal had taken Rome?.

Mavia of Tanukh, illustration by Lynn Hatzius

Mavia Of TanukhWarrior queen of Arabia.

Alexander the Great’s extraordinary childhood.

Perhaps the most charming idea about the origins of the festive tradition of kissing under the mistletoe derives from a Viking myth of Frigg, goddess of love and marriage, and her ill-fated son Balder. (Photo by Jurg Waldmeier/StockFood Creative/Getty Images Plus)

Q&AWhy do we kiss under the mistletoe?

A medieval illustration showing a doctor bleeding a patient

General History

A history of medicine14 surprising facts

Crassus: Rome’s richest man.

Christianity: a success story from the start?.