kal. why your year begins today and not in spring religion · new year · politics ↵ legere iii non. ian. they tore out his tongue for his speeches oratory · power · revenge 106 bce ↵ legere v idvs ian. the only king the roman empire allowed to live religion · monarchy · law ↵ legere iv idvs ian. the exact moment the roman republic collapsed civil war · power · treason 49 bce ↵ legere xvii kal. feb. the day rome applauded its first absolute dictator power · empire · political theatre 27 bce ↵ legere ix kal. feb. he hid fearing his end and emerged emperor power · chance · praetorian guard 41 ce ↵ legere iii kal. feb. the monument to peace funded with war booty propaganda · art · empire 9 bce ↵ legere prid. non. feb. the 3 last orders of the emperor before dying death · power · dynasty 211 ce ↵ legere non. the most dangerous roman title in history: father power · law · empire 2 bce ↵ legere iii idvs feb. how to outwit the emperor's poison taster poison · power · intrigue 55 ce ↵ legere xv kal. mar. whips and chaos: the real roman festival of fertility religion · fertility · purification ↵ legere ix kal. mar. the day the dead demanded food in the streets of rome religion · death · offerings ↵ legere vii kal. mar. if you moved this stone, any citizen could kill you religion · law · borders ↵ legere iii kal. mar. the roman politician who changed the religion of europe forever power · religion · empire 272 ce ↵ legere kal. the day masters served dinner to their slaves religion · new year · hierarchy ↵ legere prid. idvs mar. how the worst war machine in history woke up army · ritual · mars ↵ legere idvs the truth behind julius caesar's 23 stab wounds power · assassination · forensic history 44 bce ↵ legere xvi kal. apr. the exact moment a roman boy lost his childhood society · law · coming of age ↵ legere x kal. apr. the sound of bronze that terrified all of europe army · ritual · purification ↵ legere v kal. apr. the day the entire world sold itself to the highest bidder power · corruption · praetorian guard 193 ce ↵ legere prid. non. apr. rome worshipped a foreign meteorite while winning the war religion · war 204 bce ↵ legere xiii kal. mai. the cruel fire ritual in the arena of the circus maximus religion · agriculture ↵ legere xi kal. mai. the murder that cemented the walls of the roman empire founding · myth 753 bce ↵ legere ix kal. mai. the real reason rome depended on wine religion · daily life ↵ legere iv kal. mai. the scandalous festival that shattered roman morality religion · society ↵ legere kal. the roman emperor who traded absolute power for a vegetable garden empire · power 305 ce ↵ legere vii idvs mai. the dark roman ritual to repel ghosts at midnight religion · death ↵ legere v idvs mai. the day the roman empire admitted rome no longer mattered empire · geopolitics 330 ce ↵ legere idvs the disturbing straw tribute of the roman priestesses religion · sacrifice ↵ legere xiii kal. ivn. how the roman empire decreed the dogma to crush dissent empire · religion 325 ce ↵ legere xi kal. ivn. constantine's master calculation on his deathbed death · power · religion 337 ce ↵ legere iv kal. ivn. the brutal and final collapse of the eastern roman empire empire · fall 1453 ce ↵ legere kal. the end of the man who bought the empire power · praetorian guard · year of the five emperors 193 ce ↵ legere iv non. ivn. the vandal sack that emptied rome in fourteen days fall of the west · sack · vandals 455 ce ↵ legere vi idvs ivn. the child emperor who scandalised rome religion · power · the east 218 ce ↵ legere v idvs ivn. the last of augustus' blood power · suicide · end of a dynasty 68 ce ↵ legere v idvs ivn. the sacred bunker of the vestals religion · state cult · power ↵ legere idvs the realpolitik behind the edict of milan religion · power · empire 313 ce ↵ legere xi kal. ivl. the ambush in the mist of lake trasimene second punic war · hannibal · ambush 217 bce ↵ legere vi kal. ivl. the anonymous javelin that felled julian paganism · persian war · religion 363 ce ↵ legere kal. the real estate chaos in ancient rome city · plebs · rents ↵ legere iii non. ivl. the games of apollo in the thick of the punic war religion · war · hannibal 212 bce ↵ legere iv idvs ivl. the man who stole a month from the calendar calendar · power · caesar 100 bce ↵ legere xv kal. avg. the dies alliensis and the gallic massacre war · gauls · calendar 390 bce ↵ legere xiv kal. avg. the great fire and the first scapegoat fire · power · religion 64 ce ↵ legere viii kal. avg. the goddess everyone had forgotten religion · memory · oblivion ↵ legere kal. egypt's booty and the emperor's month end of ptolemaic egypt · octavian · calendar 30 bce ↵ legere v idvs avg. adrianople and the emperor who left no body valens · goths · the danube frontier 378 ce ↵ legere xiv kal. sept. the courtesans of venus and the grape harvest religion · wine · jupiter ↵ legere