Why Are Men Obsessed With the Roman Empire? Historians Speculate As To Why

American men think about the Roman Empire every day or at least several times a week, according to a Tik-Tok survey, as reported by The Washington Post. Men can't stop thinking about the Roman Empire, The (UK) Guardian reports. Cullen Murphy wrote a book on the Roman empire—and sees parallels everywhere. He told The Atlantic …

Will the West Fall Like Rome?

How To Academy: "Is the West doomed to be the next Roman Empire? Can we learn something from its fall? Medieval historian Peter Heather thinks we can – and must. What can we learn about the decline of the West from the fall of the Roman Empire? Was decline inevitable for Rome and is it …

Applying the Philosophy of Roman Historian Boethius to Contemporary Times

Reflecting on the beliefs of the Roman historian Boethius in a wheel of fate and fortune and applying it to 20th and 21st-century history, my friend Bruce Johnson wrote in an email: Britain in the 1950s and 1960s felt angst over the loss of its once dominant World Power position. France felt a similar pain over …

Roman Historian Boethius Explained the Fate of Nations and Empires

The Roman senator, consul, and historian Boethius (c. 480–524 AD) explained the fate of nations, empires, and societies more than a millennium and a half ago in his immortal treatise On the Consolidation of Philosophy. My friend Bruce Johnson explained in an email: The ups and downs of secular cultures are controlled by "the wheel of …

Life for Lowest Classes in Roman Empire Was Awful

New archaelogical digging and research at Pompei, Italy, where a volcanic eruption from Mount Vesuvius buried Romans in ash, creating a snapshot of life nearly 2,000 years ago, in 79 A.D. reveals that the lowest class of society lived like and with animals, donkeys. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/world/europe/pompeii-ruins-slaves.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/world/europe/pompeii-ruins-slaves.html

The Germanics, Rivals of the Romans and Celts

See U in History / Mythology YouTube Channel: This eight-minute video examines Germania, their warriors, ProtoGermanic religion, and mythology. Germania (Wikipedia). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKR6IMS4uxE

New NYTimes Weekly History Quiz: Flashback

Flashback, a new New York Times weekly history quiz, in its first iteration, was extraordinarily easy for me, to place eight events over the last 2100 years in chronological order. See how you do. A relative who is not a history buff like me got 7 out of 8 correct. What's cool about the quiz …

Celts of Anatolia

Know History: "The Celts are a group of people that are usually linked with Western Europe. However, how and why did the Celts end up in Anatolia?" Galatia was a term used by the Greeks to describe the three Celtic peoples of Anatolia: the Tectosages, the Trocmii, and the Tolistobogii. More. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43v28TU0hiM&t=46s

The Great Conspiracy Against Julius Caesar

TED-Ed, 2014: "Dig into the personal and political assassination of Roman dictator Julius Caesar, and find out why his senators plotted against him....On March 15th, 44 BCE, Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of about 60 of his own senators. Why did these self-titled Liberators want him dead? And why did Brutus, …

Voices of the Past: Roman Philosopher in 177 AD Complains About ‘Weird’ New Religion, Christianity

Voices of the Past Youtube Channel, with more than 49 million views, "is an attempt to tell the story of our species through the written accounts of the very people who lived through it." This episode quotes a Roman philosopher Celsus, who criticized a silly new religion called Christianity as a threat to the stability …