Antiochus III was defeated by the Romans in two successive defeats, first at Thermopylae and afterward in Magensia and forced to accept ...

Juno-Sospita-Antefix (Latium, c.500-480 BC), Altes Museum, Berlin, Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France, used under CC BY 2.0...

The Eravisci  were a Celtic tribe that settled in the region later known as Pannonia, corresponding broadly to parts of modern-day...

Rome turned against its allies and against itself, redefining the Roman city-state, and paving the way for future upheavals...

The Civil War between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great ended with Pompey's assassination shortly after his defeat...

There is little known about the moneyer of today's coin of interest, Petillius Capitolinus, one of the last moneyers to strike independent..

In Melville's Moby Dick, Captain Ahab stands in his boat, harpoon in hand, and in the final moments of his chase of the great white whale...

It could be argued that the Roman Republic reached its peak in the second half of the 2nd century BCE. The final war with Carthage...

After Caesar's assassination (42 BC) as the triumvirate prepared to avenge his death, this denarius of C. Vibius Varus was issued.

2024 has had ups and downs - it seems that every year I start with same thought. This has been an unusual year with and earth quake,...

Augustus' refusal to celebrate personal triumphs after his triple triumph in 29 BCE cultivated imperial image and shifted power dynamics.

I can imagine that there are probably not a lot of individuals who are going to add a copy of T.J. Cornell 's The Fragments of the Roman...

Manlius Torquatus Sentences His Son to Death, Alexandre-Romain Honnet, 1799, Paris, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Public Domain Image. "The Torquati were a distinguished patrician family. Their cognomen derived, or so the story went,' from an incident in 36I B.C. when an ancestor of the house killed a Celt in a duel and despoiled him of his torque. Between 244 and 164 B.C. Manlii Torquati appear frequently in the consular fasti. Thereafter,they produced no more c

I was pleasantly surprised to discover the DPRR today (Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic). I don't know how long it has been...

The lifetime of Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138 - 78 BC) was the time period that initially inspired this website - this page begins to organize Notes and relevant coins against the outline of Sulla's life and major events. (138 BCE) Birth and Early Life Sulla was born into a patrician family, though initially of modest means, in Rome. The Gracchi Brothers and Social Reforms Gaius Marius The Galvano Boys The Right of Appeal Iberian Denarii Sulla's Uncle (or Grandfather ?) A Che

This week we look at a series of three coins from 91 BCE, near the start of the Social War or Marsic War. In this war, Sulla...

When is a coin ancient? and when medieval? and when modern? In my notes, I am often crossing these categories, although Roman Republic...

by Authority of the good People of these Colonies....these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States...

"Now, as they talked on, a dog that lay there lifted up his muzzle, pricked his ears. . . It was Argos, long-enduring Odysseus’ dog he...

Humans have been making images of cattle for many millennia - this painting from Lascaux caves depicts aurochs (wild ancestors of domesticated cattle), horses and deer. The Magdalénien people of the Upper Paleolithic in western Europe that produced these paintings are estimated to have lived 12,000-17,000 years ago. Image from Prof. Saxx of a Lascaux cave painting, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons My latest ancient coin has a beautiful image of a bull facing on the obver