Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social structure of ancient ...

An integral part of daily life in ancient Rome, the baths gave citizens of all classes the chance to mingle ... of other countries. As the Roman Empire spread across Europe, North Africa and ...

Patrician families made up the ruling class, meaning they were in jobs ... that up to 10 per cent of the population of the Roman Empire were enslaved people. They had no legal rights in ancient ...

A recent study published in Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology has shown that Roman rule ... The study focuses on the comparison between German regions that were part of the Roman ...