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The Fire of Rome, 18 July 64 AD, Oil on Canvas, Robert Hubert, 1785. In the Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux; Le Havre, France.
The Great Fire of Rome
The Emperor Augustus Rebuking Cornelius Cinna for his treachery
Remembering Roman Emperor Augustus
A painting of the Rubicon scene from the mid-nineteenth century: Gustave Boulanger, Jules-César arrivé au Rubicon.
Julius Caesar Crosses the Rubicon
Cover of The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Edward J. Watts.
Falling for the Fall of Rome
Attica
A History of Athens Beyond Decline
Engraving of Roman plague doctor, Schnabel c.1656.
Quarantino: Plague and the Origins of Social Distancing
Emperor Nero
The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response
Plague doctor mask
The Black Death and Its Aftermath
Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE.
The Justinianic Plague
Hubert Robert's 1785 painting "Fire in Rome," showing the events of 64 CE.
The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1562 painting "The Triumph of Death" depicts the turmoil Europe experienced as a result of the plague.
The Black Death and its Aftermath
The Course of Empire: Destruction, Painted by Thomas Cole, depicts a highly dramatic, catastrophic image of Rome's end.
Political Economy in the Late Roman Empire
Greek amphora, or jug, from c. 540 BCE showing two hoplite phalanxes engaged in combat. Hoplites were the heavy infantry who formed the backbone of most Greek armies in the Classical Age.
A Fragmented History of Ancient Generalship
Refugee tents in Piraeus port.
A Postcard from a Piraeus Refugee Camp
The Prima Porta Statue shows a powerful and youthful Augustus making an address
Celebrating Roman Emperor Augustus
Cover of Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome by Brian Campbell
Rome's Wondrous Rivers
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD, by Brown, Peter Book Cover.
What to Do About the Money?
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin Book Cover
Byzantium for Dummies
Cover of Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend by Richard Stoneman.
Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend
Cover of Caesar A Life in Western Culture by Maria Wyke.
A Man for All Seasons
Cover of 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire by Giusto Traina.
The End of the World as They Knew It
Cover of Song of Wrath The Peloponnesian War Begins by J. E. Lendon.
A Time For War
Cover of Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean by Molly Greene.
Pirates, Pirates Everywhere but Not Enough of Them in This Book
1866 cartoon by Daumier, L’Equilibre Européen, representing the balance of power as soldiers of different nations teeter the earth on bayonets.
Democracy by Force, or by Example?