The debate about ebooks v paper books is nothing new. Keith Houston explains how a very similar debate raged as the first books came to be in ancient Rome. The book is changing. Electronic books, or ...

Researchers in Dublin have uncovered the oldest surviving English poem, hiding in a medieval book in a Roman library.

The figure of the Roman emperor still conjures up an array of familiar images, monuments and (often sordid) tales. These bygone rulers feature in our films; their portraits line our museums; and ...

The classicist Mary Beard examines the excesses and tedium of imperial rule, sorting fact from gossip and tall tales. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...

In Mark Kurlansky's novel Cheesecake, a Greek family living on Manhattan's Upper West Side sets out to follow a recipe dating back to ancient Rome. What results is a block-wide battle to make the best ...

Empire, Power, People provides a rarely seen glimpse of life in the Roman empire ...