In 125 B.C., citizens of the Greek colony of Massalia (Massillia ... as it existed during the Roman Empire. The map's origins were obscure: a 13th-century monk from Colmar had apparently copied ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician ... under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and geography were built on his ideas: his world map, published as part of his ...

Over the centuries, the movement of large numbers of people meant that gods from a variety of cultures, including Etruscan and Greek ... was integral to the Roman Empire made it easy for the ...

Traditionally, 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 ...

This discovery—a Tetrarchic boundary stone—dates back to the Roman Empire under Emperor Diocletian ... the basalt slab bears ...