# Roman History
12 Generals You Won’t Believe Switched Sides and Defected to the Enemy
Loyalty, duty, honor, and keeping faith with one's side through thick and thin are prized military values, counted among the…
12 Historically Important Perverts and How They Changed the World
To an extent - great or small - everybody has a bit of a deviant within, with perverse urges eager…
12 of History’s Greatest Back Stabbers and their Dramatic Consequences
According to folk etymology, the term "double-cross", as in deception by some kind of double-dealing, originated with the 18th century…
12 of History’s Most Bizarre Rulers
From King Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia who collected giants to staff his favorite regiment the way little girls collected dolls,…
Ancient Men of Power: The Roman Republic’s Most Influential Leaders
The Res Publica Romana, or the Roman Republic, was the nearly 500 year period between the overthrow of the Roman…
Treason! 12 of History’s Most Notorious Traitors From Ancient Times to the 20th Century
"Traitor" is a heavy word laden with ugly connotations of deception and dishonesty - the kind of disreputable and disgusting…
The Existence of Jesus Christ is Still a Much Debated Issue
For perhaps the most famous and influential figure in history, Jesus of Nazareth is remarkably (and frustratingly) enigmatic. Veiled beneath…
Frustrated Ambitions: The 10 Stages of How the Roman Republic Became an Empire
Born out of the expulsion of Rome’s monarchy in the late sixth century BC, the Roman Republic lasted for over…
The Emperor Caligula and his Unlikely Role Model
If there was one foreign ruler who, through the sheer extent of his achievements, managed to capture the imagination of…
Without a Trace: 10 People the Romans Tried to Erase from History
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past”. So reads the slogan George Orwell…